You’re So Vain, You Probably Think Data Quality Is About You
Don't you? "Data Quality is an IT issue because information is stored in databases and applications that they manage. Therefore,…
Supreme Court Turns Down Case Examining State Email Laws
As reported by CNN.com, in the final chapter of a lengthy battle to uphold state email legislation by the Virginia state…
Twitter gains salesforce.com support, anticipating the next great thing?
Welcome Mary Wardley with this guest post. Mary is IDC's vice president of CRM and Applications research in my Software Business…
A review of “The History of Business Intelligence” by Nic Smith
IntroductionI had been aware of a short film about the history of Business Intelligence flitting its way around the Twitterverse,…
Social Networking Analytics
SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center has just unveiled a great new prototype called Enterprise Social Networking (ESN). It aggregates existing enterprise…
Early Indications March 2009: A Disruption Scorecard
With the newspaper business in apparent freefall, it's perhaps useful to tally up some of the various winners and losers…
A Blooper from “The World’s Best Retailer”
The website for the Girls Scouts of the USA clearly states: Q: Can I buy Girl Scout Cookies online? A:…
Start cooking: can you explain SOA or mashups in two minutes?
We allude now and then in this blog to “elevator speeches” about SOA and enterprise architecture. This is often meant…
Video: Facebook, Google and Predictive Analytics with R
Ron Fredericks has done a great job editing and making available the video from last month's Predictive Analytics World panel…
Data Quality: A Cause and Effect Story
While reading a classic story to my kids, "Because a bug went ka-choo!" I thought to myself that some CEO's…