One Software CEO’s View on “Ease” Buyers vs. “Function” Buyers
In a recent First Thing Monday, "Of Human Capital: SAP’s SaaS Plans, Kronos’ CEO, and “Closed-Door” Apps," I repeated a…
A Letter to Our Users, From Your BI Team
In which Jill writes a rebuttal letter to a rebuttal letter, this time from IT. Two posts ago, I penned…
New Media Quizzes, Surveys, and Games: Business Analytics Opportunities
If you are in Facebook you have seen a large number of friends take quizzes, surveys, and play games. What…
Banging on Bing: A Bummer
So, Bing is out early. Yes, an early release from Microsoft! And it’s snappy, attractive, and offers decent quality. If…
Name them to Shame them!
The European Commission just announced that dozens of European airlines needed to change their websites to make sure consumers weren’t…
May 2009 Early Indications: Clouded Over
The proliferation of so-called cloud computing platforms has been rapid. Because there is so much material available that defines the…
Interview with David Smith, REvolution Computing
Ajay Ohri at DecisionStats revently interviewed me about my background, this blog, and REvolution Computing's plans for REvolution R Enterprise…
Decision Tree Bagging System (R code)
I previously posted a note on decision trees, then explained how they could be improved by model averaging using ensembles…
Analytics: Reality and the Growing Interest
This is a guest post by Bhupendra Khanal, CEO of InRev Systems. InRev Systems is a Bangalore-based decision management company,…
Top 10 interesting companies in Data Management
A bit of fun for a Sunday. Below is the list of my top 10 interesting companies in Data Management…