Open Source Analytics Reaches Main Street (and Some Other Trends in Analytics)
This is the first of three posts about systems, applications, services and architectures for building and deploying analytics. Sometimes this…
Want to Experience SAP BusinessObjects Explorer? Try This Micro-Finance Demo!
As I mentioned in the previous post, SAP launched the new BusinessObjects Explorer Accelerated product today. You can try out…
Minimum Budget Maximum Impact
As business improvement specialists, we are often asked for tips and advice from our clients and friends. Our goal is…
Twitter Analytics : These words may be affecting your popularity
Text Mining techniques can be used to identify specific words that are correlated with Twitter accounts having high or low…
CA ERwin Data Modeler Trivia
CA recently held an ERwin Data Modeler trivia contest in honour of ERwin’s 20th Anniversary. Of all the responses, the…
Ultimate Twitter Research Study
I’m posting a brief interview with Tom De Ruyck who is Connected Research Manager at InSites Consulting as well as…
“Entry Point: The Call Center or the Death Star
Depending on the type of industry you are in, you may call it the service desk, the help desk, the…
Catching Up With Hunch
Last week, I stopped by the Hunch office to learn more about what they’re doing, as well as to contribute…
The House, the FTC and New Privacy Legislation
Growing concern over behavioral advertising, specifically ISP-based advertising has caused members of the House to propose drafting new online privacy laws. There…
Business Intelligence Competency Centres
Introduction The subject of this article ought to be reasonably evident from its title. However there is perhaps some room…

