Even New Media Companies Should Listen to their Evangelists/Apostles First
Strangely, Customer Satisfaction Research Among Super Users is Missing from Major Social Networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace… My…
KNIME and Zementis shake hands
Two very good and very customer centric (and open source ) companies shook hands on a strategic partnership today. Knime …
The Sultans of Speed
Whatever else you might say about Google, they understand how to engineer web-scale systems. Check out Greg’s notes (or Michael…
BI vendors need inspiration – Andreas Bitterer at Gartner
I rather belatedly picked up on an article by Andreas Bitterer posted on the Gartner blogs network. The title of…
Thoughts on BI in the economic crisis from Finance Week
Another contribution to the debate about how BI will fare in the current economic climate. The article is by Julia…
BI and a different type of outsourcing
The current economic climate seems to be providing ammunition for both those who favour outsourcing elements of IT and those…
A list of potential DW/BI pitfalls – by someone who has clearly been there
Browsing through my WordPress Tag Surfer today (a really nice feature by the way), I came across an interesting list…
Sustaining Cultural Change
This article is the final one in a trilogy focussed on enacting change. The previous instalments were as follows: Marketing…
Using BI to drive improvements in data quality
Business Intelligence ProfessionalsIntroductionIt is often argued that good BI is dependent on good data quality. This is essentially a truism…
A common-sense approach to BI from Information Management
I am not sure whether it is the economic crisis focusing minds, or if there has been a turning point…