IDC: Decision Management Market at $10B by 2014
The folks at IDC (Dan Vesset, Maureen Fleming, Steve Hendrick, Henry Morris and others) have just released Worldwide Decision Management…
Germany Threatens to Fine Companies That Use Google Analytics
Concluding that Google hasn't adequately complied with their demands, German data protection officials are warning that web companies in the…
An Interview with Market Research Expert, Annie Pettit
This is my second interview of many to come with market research experts from across the globe. If you…
With PMML, interoperability is truly attainable
Developed by the Data Mining Group (DMG), an independent, vendor led committee, PMML provides an open standard for representing data…
Teradata Tops the Chart, Again
By now, everyone knows that Teradata’s ‘secret sauce’ is the massively parallel processing of the Teradata database. It’s that advantage…
Software vendors, tear down this wall!
Historians say that Ronald Reagan’s 1987 “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” "speech at Brandenburg Gate catalyzed the end of…
BI: It’s All in Your Head (or Somebody Else’s)
Mike Tarallo at Pentaho says that real Business Intelligence is not about software; it is about people:"BI in general involves…
Because It’s Friday: The Scale of the Universe
Some things in the universe -- quarks, for example -- are very small. Other things, like galaxies, are very large.…
Top 10 Business Intelligence predictions for 2011
Are you ok? Perhaps you should sit down. The Business Intelligence (BI) industry developed at a frenetic take-your-breath-away pace during…
The “decline effect,” random variation, and evidence-based marketing
There’s an interesting article by Jonah Lehrer in the Dec. 13 issue of The New Yorker, “The Truth Wears Off: …
