{"id":12150,"date":"2010-09-18T10:57:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T09:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2021-08-17T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:54:53","slug":"business-intelligence-iceland-skyrr-fall-conference-in-reykjavik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/business-intelligence-iceland-skyrr-fall-conference-in-reykjavik.html","title":{"rendered":"Business Intelligence Iceland: Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"iceland-banner\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/icelandbanner.jpg?resize=690%2C310&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"iceland-banner\" width=\"690\" height=\"310\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyrr.is\/Um-Skyrr\/English\/Skyrr-Fall-Conrerence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, and among the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyrr.is\/Haustradstefna\/Skraning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long list of sessions<\/a>, I covered three topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An evening executive session on \u201cWhy BI Projects Fail and What To Do About It\u201d<\/li>\n<li>A vendor-neutral BI Trends keynote \u201cSimple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic\u201d<\/li>\n<li>An SAP BusinessObjects breakout session \u201cInformation to Insight\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.timoelliott.com\/docs\/Why BI projects fail Iceland.ppt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"why projects fail iceland\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/whyprojectsfailiceland.jpg?resize=690%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"why projects fail iceland\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.timoelliott.com\/docs\/Iceland Skyrr Keynote distribution.pptx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"clear intelligence future iceland\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/clearintelligencefutureiceland.jpg?resize=690%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"clear intelligence future iceland\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/assets.timoelliott.com\/docs\/Iceland Information into Insight distribution.pptx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"information to insight iceland\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/informationtoinsighticeland.jpg?resize=690%2C518&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"information to insight iceland\" width=\"690\" height=\"518\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you do ever visit Reykjavik, you MUST visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluelagoon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blue lagoon<\/a>. It\u2019s possible to take a taxi from town to the pool, store your luggage, do a proper visit and swim, and take a taxi to the airport in just under two hours. It\u2019s as amazing as it looks (although the pictures don\u2019t convey the occasional whiff of sulphur\/rotten eggs)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"IMG_0045\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_0045.jpg?resize=690%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG_0045\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Finally, just to show that data quality problems are ubiquitous \u2013 in real life, data gets manually copied all the time, with the inevitable errors\u2026 Remember <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k4gj_RdtKCw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(for the sake of the children!)<\/a> to include data quality in your BI project<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; border-width: 0px;\" title=\"skyrr-timo-elliott-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/skyrrtimoelliottbadge.jpg?resize=690%2C460&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"skyrr-timo-elliott-badge\" width=\"690\" height=\"460\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download my Business Intelligence Presentations from the Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,160,161,198,204,213,509,911,1085],"class_list":["post-12150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-analytics","tag-bi","tag-bi-20","tag-business-analytics","tag-business-intelligence","tag-businessobjects","tag-future","tag-sap","tag-trends"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3X9RF-39Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20593,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12150\/revisions\/20593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timoelliott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}