JD Williams ; Company Selects Teradata
Teradata and its alliance partner Speed-Trap are to provide an integrated web intelligence system that leverages fresh online interaction data…
Use a Spreadsheet for a Database: circa 1986
In another vintage Computer Chronicles video from the Internet Archive, see how to use a spreadsheet as a database via…
Two pictures paint a thousand words…
IT / Business Alignmentversus IT / Business IntegrationWhich is more likely to lead to sustained success? I have just had it…
Dave Wells’ prescription for the incurious
Former TDWI education director Dave Wells keeps running into users whose BI reports might as well be printed. These users…
CRTC Fails to Grasp Simple Data Protection Concepts
After getting a phone call for a carpet cleaning request, I gave the following some thought! In Canada this is…
#8: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:There’s more to analytics…
e2.0 Iterativ Project Method: Defining business needs and drivers (post 2 or 5)
This is number 2 in a series of five post. Inthe previous post I started outlining a basicmethodology for implementing e2.0…
Networks and Heterarchies
I was recently invited to participate in a published "panel" on the topic of heterarchies for the People and Strategy…
Rogue Wave Software Acquires Visual Numerics
Visual Numerics, a company with some interesting embeddable analytic products (reviewed here and here) has just been acquired by RogueWave,…
DQ Certification a Noble Cause
The International Association of Information and Data Quality has been raising funds for a noble cause. That cause to create…

