Tag: Business Intelligence

  • Here Comes Web 3.0: Wolfram|Alpha Launches Today

    Here Comes Web 3.0: Wolfram|Alpha Launches Today

    Wikipedia defines Web 3.0 as the “semantic web”, “making it possible for the web to understand and satisfy the requests of people and machines to use the web content.” We’ll get a step closer to that vision when Wolfram|Alpha (or maybe just “WolframAlpha” – their web site uses both) launches later today.   Wolfram|Alpha is…

  • Google Takes Another Step into BI

    Google Takes Another Step into BI

    Google extends their business intelligence functionality by making it easy to search for and analyze public data sources.

  • BI Implementations Must be Risk-Adjusted

    BI Implementations Must be Risk-Adjusted

    It makes absolutely no sense to try to optimize performance without taking into account risk. Technology vendors are helping by tightly integrating business intelligence and performance management with governance, risk and compliance.

  • BI in Brussels (Against Economic Turmoil)

    Presentation on “How to use Business Intelligence to Counter Economic Turmoil” delivered as part of a Reporting and Business Intelligence session at the SAP Lounge in Brussels, Belgium.

  • Social Networking Analytics

    Social Networking Analytics

    SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a great new prototype called Social Network Analyzer (SNA). It aggregates existing enterprise data to display and discover organizational relationships, bringing together enterprise business intelligence, social networking, and business applications for the first time.

  • BI on the Bosphorus

    Presentation and dashboard from an SAP BusinessObjects day in Istanbul, Turkey

  • Breaking Up (Cartoon)

    Breaking Up (Cartoon)

    A business intelligence cartoon: It’s not you. It’s your data.

  • Scandalous Financial Benchmarking?

    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…

  • BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)

    BI Incompetency Center (Cartoon)

    Cartoon: a BI incompetency center in action