Tag: BI
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Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?
I just stumbled across an old post of mine, and couldn’t help reposting some of it in the light of recent events. All those financial wizards were making a fortune based on the money they were “creating” — money that has since turned out to be largely fictitious. Top hedge fund managers were earning more…
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BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)
Cartoon: a BI incompetency center in action
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BI in Bahrain
here was lots of interest in the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio of solutions at the SUG-MENA event in Bahrain. See the Xcelsius dashboard using local data, and the presentation I gave.
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Alternative Dashboards?
Even earlier — and sillier — alternative Xcelsius dashboards.
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Who Has the Data?
When one person in the meeting actually has data, it changes the whole meeting
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The Very First Version of Xcelsius?
An early dashboard from 1939 — in cardboard?!
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Using Business Intelligence to Catch Wasteful US Spending?
Track US Government spending thanks to USA Spending.Gov and Polestar OnDemand. What can YOU come up with?
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Giant Brains: Did Edmund Berkeley Predict Email, the Internet, ERP Systems and the iPhone in 1949?
Now that prediction season is coming to an end, it’s time to reflect on how technology always changes, but the underlying business needs remain the same from year to year, or even decade to decade. Edmund Berkely was a real pioneer with his book: “Giant Brains, or Machines that Think” in 1949.
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Data Governance? What’s That? (And How Can Companies Fix It?)
Forty-four percent of companies don’t have a formal data governance policy, and 22% of firms without a data policy have no plans to implement one. Here are the key steps to getting data governance and quality going in your organization.
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BusinessObjects is The Best Thing About SAP Business Suite 7?
As I’m sure everybody knows by now, SAP launched Business Suite 7 last week. Despite skepticism about some of the claims made for the new suite, analysts declared that the inclusion of BusinessObjects analytics into the suite was a big part of its appeal.