Branding Your BI Solution: Everything Up to And Including Theme Music?
Branding and other forms of internal marketing are absolutely essential for successful BI projects -- and it's an area where…
Gartner BI Europe 2009: The BIg Discrepancy?
The official theme of the Gartner BI Summit Europe a couple of weeks ago was "the BIg discrepancy": the long-standing…
Good Advice for Bad Times?
Following the lead of Dave Kellogg (i.e. shamelessly copying), here's a link to an excellent article on "Counter-Intuitive Tactics for…
It Would Have Been a Crime not to Include Analytics in This New Application
Today, SAP launched SAP Investigative Case Management for Public Sector, a new solution to support police and other investigating authorities…
Data Governance? What’s That? (And How Can Companies Fix It?)
A recent survey of business and IT leaders carried out by Kalido shows that over two thirds of businesses have…
Bad Decisions: Just Blame Evolution?
February 12th 2009 will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of naturalist Charles Robert Darwin. He researched, popularized,…
Companies Can’t Afford to Use BI to Cut Costs?
I talked about this research in a previous post, but thought it was worth pulling out the charts to show…
Is There Such a Thing as Good Gut Decisions?
Thinking and Emotions are Inextricably Linked It's long been known that real-life decision-making involves more than just data and logic.…
BusinessObjects is The Best Thing About SAP Business Suite 7?
As I’m sure everybody knows by now, SAP launched Business Suite 7 last week. There was a “let’s-wait-and-see” attitude in…
MicroStrategy: The Start of the End? or Just a New Product Cycle?
MicroStrategy announced their 4Q 2008 results yesterday. The stock price rose, since the company beat analyst estimates, but as InformationWeek…