Top Six Traits of a Data Champion
Data champions play a crucial role in making data governance successful. The data champions are enthusiastic about the power of…
Jeremiah Owyang Defends “Sponsored Conversations”
In a post today entitled “How To Make Sponsored Conversations Work“, Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang explains how sponsored conversations–whether through…
Researchers mine millions of metaphors through computer-based techniques
This technique developed at Stanford University is going to revolutionized text searching. The 'proximity-searching machine-learning" technique have potential applications in…
Winter of 1933 and a Story About My Second Favorite Carpenter in History
When Business is Slow, Some of Us Do Our Most Interesting Work - What I learned about the winter of…
Downsizing of Column Inches
Just read the headlines… we’re not out of the economic woods yet. Ironically there are now fewer newspapers for those…
In dead bird vs. flow chart, bird wins
So many BI flow charts resemble the view out my hotel window in Las Vegas on the rooftop just below:…
Bailout Poem
Two kids were talking in the park, and they played a game. Who was the tougher guy, What is your…
Who’s the main competitor to the new method? What’s the catch?
The solution we are talking about in these posts is DIFFERENT and gives added value to other products as it…
SAS: Great Revenues in a Bad Economy
Jim Goodnight, the CEO of SAS, is happy. Not only did Gartner rank his company as a leader in the…
Declining Business Intelligence Jobs in 2009?
For some time now, I have used Monster job searches to gauge demand for Business Intelligence technologies. What I failed…