The analyst function is dead
The role of the operational analyst has moved from the business into both Finance and into IT. The Finance team…
Loyalty Proven Critical to CPG Sales Growth
Traditional methods of CPG shopper marketing may be losing steam, as described in this article in Ad Age the other…
Visualizations as Vocabulary…or Know the Big Words, Use the Small Ones
Telling stories with data. It is an increasingly common business intelligence refrain–and it may well be part of your job…
Can Salesforce.com Make Chatter Epicenter of Enterprise Collaboration?
Earlier this week, my IT Business Edge colleague Loraine Lawson wrote a post about some of the news from Salesforce.com's…
Deloitte Analytics: A Social Media Website for BI Insiders
Consulting, auditing, and analytics giant Deloitte has combined two very contemporary technologies – business analytics and social media – in…
Three Golden Rules for Digital Messaging
Too often we get caught up in the cycle of messaging only to realize that we are slowly alienating some…
SQL Server to Discontinue Support for OLE-DB
ODBC was first created in 1992 as a generic set of standards for providing access to a wide range of…
NSA, Accumulo & Hadoop
Reading yesterday that the NSA has submitted a proposal to Apache to incubate their Accumulo platform. This, according to the…
Text Analytics News Interviews
Twelve Social Media Tips for Analytics Professionals Text Analytics News just published an interview with myself and three analytics professionals…

