Barry Devlin

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Big Data converging Data and Content

Whatever about my concerns (and those of others) that the term big…

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BI Excellence or Analytic Horror – You Choose!

Sometimes, business intelligence stories can be complex and technical.  Sometimes, even the…

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Seven Faces of Data – Rethinking the Basic Characteristics of Data

"Seven Faces of Data - Rethinking data's basic characteristics" - new White…

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Watson, you know my methods… IBM moves towards HAL

I've previously written about IBM Watson, its success in "Jeopardy!" and some…

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Big Data – Big Change or Big Hype?

In the Information part of Information Technology, Big Data is the Big…

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Oracle Takes Endeca – a War of Acquisition?

I believe it was Forrester Research who coined the phrase "Unified Information…

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BI Business Value – Timeliness or Consistency, Part 2

Having looked at timeliness in Part 1, let's turn our attention to…

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BI Business Value – Timeliness or Consistency, Part 1

Over the past few years, we've heard increasingly that business needs ever…

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Every User an Analyst – Bah, Humbug!

"Oracle Exalytics enables organizations to make decisions faster... through the introduction of…

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Lyza – Supporting Collaborative Process in Decision Making

Lyzasoft's Scott Davis returned to the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) last…

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