Tag: Business Intelligence
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BI in Barcelona, Scary Big Data, Cool 3D Analytics and More
Another analytics round up – what’s going on in the analytics world this week? Gartner BI and Analytics Summit: Nos Vemos en Barcelona! A host of SAP Analytics folks will be in Barcelona next week for the Gartner BI and Analytics Summit. Jason Rose will be presenting with Mark Cooper of British American Tobacco…
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What’s Missing? Game-Changing! Visualize That! You Get What You Pay For
What’s Missing From Your BI? This week? Two things: First, a real understanding of how people create and use information, according to a Harvard Business Review article entitled Why IT fumbles Analytics Second, Forrester analyst Boris Evelson says you should have BI on BI (SAP BusinessObjects supports the types of analysis cited, and Information Steward…
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OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big News The big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered by HANA. The first major change to SAP’s applications since R3, it was called “ein game-changer” by press around the world. Ray Wang did a nice round-up in his post News Analysis: SAP Business…
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The Convergence of Analytic and Operational Processing is a Big Deal
40 years of conventional analytic is being overturned, with in-memory technology that allows analytic and operational processing on the same system.
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Baking and Computers, a Surprising History of Analytics Pioneers
Perhaps surprisingly, baking companies and computers have a long history of working together. The very first business application ever was “bakery valuations” in 1951, and now pioneers like Turkish baker UNO are taking things to the next level with in-memory technology.
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Never Underestimate The Importance of BI User Training
End-user training for business intelligence is worth investing in — giving somebody a pencil doesn’t make them Picasso!
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The Peril of Analytics (Cartoon)
Analytics has always been dangerous for a certain type of middle-manager…
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Scrooge Didn’t Believe in Sentiment Analysis Either
Famously cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy, it’s a fair bet Scrooge didn’t care much about sentiment analysis. But it is one of the most powerful new “big data” options available today.
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Could Ebenezer Scrooge Be On YOUR Board?
Could Ebenezer Scrooge be on your board, comfortable with lagging income statement and balance sheet measures, or are you taking advantage of the latest advances in big data to sense changes to your business environment in real time?
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Rethinking BI: 3 Big New Old Ideas
Here are some ideas on how new analytics technologies are going to impact one of the most important business processes in modern organizations — the provision of business intelligence itself.