Twitter Roundup of Last Week’s TDWI Conference
Last week, The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) held its annual conference in beautiful San Diego. This year’s focus was on…
BI and Car Wrecks
This is the 120th anniversary of an amazing event: the very first automobile accident.If you do not know about this,…
Brian Ripley on The R Development Process
R Core member Professor Brian Ripley from Oxford University gave the first keynote presentation of useR! 2011 today, and gave some…
The R Ecosystem: a Presentation
I gave my talk to the useR! 2011 conference this morning: The R Ecosystem. The goal of the talk was…
Adding Social Elements to Intranet? Don’t Forget Change Management
Several months ago I wrote a post on making the intranet the hub of social activity for an enterprise. While social tools…
Customer Churn and Retention
In any business competitors are always looking to grab your customers, and many customers are on the lookout for a…
Outages: Cloud Customers Cry Out for Communication
What is the collective noun for a number of cloud outages? A thunderstorm? A puddle of…? A wave of major…
Cloud ERP Software Perceptions
The Cloud represents a major technological change that impacts ERP software. The change is real in terms of how software…
Back To School With the 60 Day MBAnalytics
This is my last post to smartdata. If you would like to continue reading my posts and/or following the 60…
WebFOCUS Closed-Loop Mobile BI
Information Builders, the vendor of enterprise BI product WebFOCUS, announced today "closed-loop BI" support for mobile devices.This is not a…