Transparent Text Symposium: Day 2
Given how intense yesterday was at the Transparent Text symposium, I couldn’t imagine that today would match it. But it…
A Sustainability Storm is Brewing for BI
Another clap of thunder rumbled across the sustainability landscape recently. I received a press release from a company called CSC,…
ggplot2 and the grammar of graphics
I really enjoyed Hadley Wickham's talk for the Bay Area UseR group last week. I've really been getting into ggplot2…
All Business Analysts are Not Created Equal
At a client meeting recently I was informed that the company had over 150 business analysts. Even the client’s business…
Adding decision management to your BPM initiative
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Adding decision management to your BPM initiative.Syndicated from ebizQ Last…
Is the RDBMS doomed (yada yada yada) ?
Image by Snooch2TheNooch via FlickrI was speaking with Michael Stonebraker this morning. I mentioned that lately many have been referencing…
Who should Jean-Claude Trichet call?
How is private consumption developing in the US? Alan Greenspan, the former Fed’s chairman, once said that if he wanted…
Thin Slicing Your Way to Lower Profits
A hotel manager looks out in the lobby and notices a guest with a Hermes tie. Another is carrying a…
The Napoleonic Wars – Timely and Near Enough was Good Enough
In 1815, they didn’t have access to all the information we have today, but sometimes they had the right information…
BI FAIL #2
Seth Grimes of Alta Plana gives us a great example of business intelligence failure this week on the site USAspending.gov.…
