Early Indications April 2009: Reexamining Offshoring
When U.S. firms replace onshore technical and other resources with lower-cost labor in offshore markets, the logic is typically financial.…
Sneak Preview of BI at TechEd 2009
Watch an interview with Donald Farmer which gives a sneak preview of some of the things that will be presented at…
Twitter Analytics: Words that make a difference
Predictive Analytics are already widely used on Twitter to extract potentially interesting insights. On previous posts we discussed:Sentiment Analysis and…
R/Finance 2009 roundup
The first international conference dedicated to the use of R in the finance industry, R/Finance 2009, was a great success.…
Driving Marketing Effectiveness and Efficiency from Within using Social Media
I wonder if the real value of social media for B2B marketing is not the external use to drive sales…
EDW09 Industry Data Models – Life Savers or Money Sinks? How Do You Decide?
I’m attending George McGeachie’s very early presentation (7:15AM is way too early for me at a conference – I’m already…
Use the Force – A Brief Guide to Use Case Complexity
In Chapter 1 of Alistair Cockburn’s “Writing Effective Use Cases,” which I have to believe is the book most often…
“Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? – ERP” – Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com
This is my second article in response to pieces by Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com (you can read the first one…
#7: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:First, the decisionThe first…
Confronting a False Positive
I received a request to explain false positive matches; perhaps this tale based on my brother’s experiences will help.Imagine that…