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Is “One Version of the Truth” Outdated?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)
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The End of a Business Intelligence Era?
Now that Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects have all been purchased, it’s clear that we’re moving from one vendor era to another. Despite all the digital ink poured out over the acquisitions, relatively little has been written on what the next era looks like… (more)
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IBM Falls off the Fence, and Picks Cognos…
IBM couldn’t take the heat any more — it’s Cognos, for $5bn. It seems they were reluctant up until the last minute, given the recent agreements announced with Business Objects XI bundled with DB2. But faced with being left out of the cold, and with other suitors surely bearing down on Cognos, they bit the…
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Concrete Steps to Performance Excellence: Insight 07 Donald MacCormick Keynote
At the Business Objects Insight User Conference in Orlando, Chief Transformation Officer Donald MacCormick presented on the concrete steps organizations can take to achieve Performance Excellence.