Enterprise Software: Is there any one left to buy?
The high tech Titans - IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and EMC (EMC) – have…
Bad economics are difficult to shake off
Terry Pratchett once wrote that “Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.” We could make a similar…
The Netflix Prize and Freeing Data Analytics
This week, Netflix presented the first Netflix Prize, awarding the Belkour Pragmatic Chaos team the $1 Million grand prize in…
Mass Layoffs August 2009
Yesterday the Mass Layoff report was issued by the United States Department of Labor – Bureau of Labor Statistics. The…
The Financial Times New Search Engine
The Financial Times Group of the UK has launched a new search engine called Newssift. The search engine does a…
Have Fun
Lets face it, we all got into Marketing because we enjoyed it… there’s a classic brand that you know, a…
Permission Marketing
I had an interesting experience last week with permission marketing. I had been to see a house that was for…
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…