Month: March 2012

Letter to Operations: no more spreadsheets for Purchasing

Editor’s Note: This article addresses supply chain issues in the form of…

EphraimCohen
4 Min Read

Why Discovery Really Matters

I recently gave two presentations on trends in BI at IT conferences…

Erica Driver
6 Min Read

Managing Decision Logic in Decision Management Technologies

As regular readers know, we have released the first version of our…

JamesTaylor
1 Min Read

Defining “Data Scientist”, cont’d

Forbes continues the series exploring the definition of "data scientist" with an…

DavidMSmith
2 Min Read

BI’s Dirty Secrets – The Unfortunate Domination of Manually-Coded Extracts

Manually-coded extracts are another dirty secret of the BI world. I’ve been…

RickSherman
6 Min Read

Publishing and Big Data

As the author of four books, I pay close attention to the…

MIKE20
5 Min Read

How BI and Data Analytics Gurus Used Twitter in February

The Predictive Analytics World Conference in San Francisco is in full force…

March 2012 Early Indications I: Financial oddities of tech companies

Three data points start this exploration:1) According to Thomson Reuters, Apple is…

JohnJordan1
12 Min Read

What’s the Difference? – A Social Media Monitoring Strategy that Analyzes Intentions Instead of Mentions

At CI we talk a lot about analyzing consumer intentions, extracting consumer…

Jennifer Roberts
4 Min Read

3 Ways ‘Big Data Analytics’ Will Change Enterprise Performance Management

Success of companies – big or small – will increasingly depend on…

Bernard Marr
8 Min Read