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BI vs. the Web?
BI is like a worldwide web where implementing each link costs $100k and takes IT six months to implement. Fantastic possibilities. Slow progress.
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Top 5 BI Predictions for (the Rest of) 2008
OK, so it’s February, and I’m late to the party (it got busy for a while), but here’s my belated thoughts on the top five BI trends this year. I’ll avoid the standard laundry-list of “BI 2.0” (or even BI 3.0, sigh) tech trends, and instead concentrate on some of the BI market and customer…
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Business Objects Memory Lane
A few photos from the early days of Business Objects
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Is “One Version of the Truth” Outdated?
It’s time to retiring the notion of “one version of the truth” — it’s as useful as striving for “one version of politics”.
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Did AT&T Call The Recession First, Using BI?
There’s increasing agreement that the US economy is already in recession. Interestingly, we can’t know for sure because the statistics used for the formal definition (a decline in a country’s gross domestic product, or negative real economic growth, for two or more successive quarters of a year) take around six months to compile. What’s different…
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Operational BI = Common Sense?
SAS argues that operational BI can replace common sense? (see full posting for details)
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Will Computers Ever Make Decisions?
Executive dissatisfaction with the information available to them to make decisions is just as bad as when I started working in BI 20 years ago. Will computers ever be able to help with decisions? (see full post…)
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Thanksgiving Predictive Analytics
One of the difficulties of predictive analytics is that it relies on the past being a reliable predictor of the future — which is rarely the case in today’s fast-moving economies…(cartoon)
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Xcelsius Pac-Man?
An old pie chart joke, with Xcelsius reflections.
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Business Intelligence Consolidation: Friend or Foe?
Thanks to Shane Schick of Canada’s Globe and Mail, who today reported on “Business intelligence consolidation: friend or foe?” and quoted from this blog (more)