Salesforce.com introduces the world to the Collaboration Cloud
Today at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference CEO Marc Benioff announced a new "mystery" product called Salesforce Chatter. Calling the category "collaboration…
Dashboard Envy
Coca-Cola Germany has published on the web (via their marketing agency) two generations of their flash-based dashboards developed between 2007 and 2009.…
Tipping Points
The term "business analytics" is on everyone’s lips. It’s like when you buy a new car, suddenly you see that…
Exploring Explortatory Search
Google’s recently released Image Swirl is slick. But I’ve been struggling to figure out whether it’s useful or simply a…
Analytics is Not a Dirty Word
What seems like a lifetime ago, I was intelligence officer in the Air Force. Beyond creating Snoopy calendars on the mainframe…
ETL tools: Don’t Forget About the Little Dogs
I’m not only concerned about hand-coding versus ETL tools; I’m also concerned that potential buyers of ETL tools and the…
Don’t be a snob about managing change
One of the most dangerous things you can do is think you’re different than everyone else. I have found that…
MDM: Build or Buy?
On the publication of my new Informatica white paper, titled “Master Data Management: Building a Foundation for Success,” I’ve been…
IBM: Numerati paradise
It's been about three weeks that I've been "covering" IBM for BusinessWeek. I haven't done any articles yet, but I…
Make Better Decisions
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Make Better Decisions.Tom Davenport published a new article recently in…

