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…
Bi , Ba and Bs
Business intelligence is an over-used term that has had its day, and business analytics is now the differentiator that will…
The future financial system
Today’s WSJ had an entire pull-out section dedicated to the Future of Financehttps://futurefinance.wsj.com/ . These are the findings from last…