Analytics, Rules and Visualizations Changing Global Finance Companies
Financial companies are making bigger, faster and ever more complex decisions using huge quantities of data and requiring analytics horsepower. …
Another Step for Google into Business Analytics? EIM with Google Refine 2.0
Google has announced Google Refine 2.0, “a power tool for data wranglers”. It’s an open-source tool for cleaning and enhancing “messy”…
The interoperability of social networks
Google recently added a caustic warning message when users attempt to export their Google Contacts to Facebook: Hold on a…
The Go/No-Go Decision Pattern
Should you accept a new project a potential customer is offering you? Should you hire an assistant? Should you buy…
Big Data, Big Problems
In the global marketplace, businesses and employees are creating and consuming more information than ever before. Gartner predicts that enterprise…
Firesheep and social network security: What you need to know
Social network security is all the talk this month, as Firefox recently launched it’s Firesheep plugin. In a nutshell, the new plugin…
Location Data + Business Intelligence = Location Intelligence
During the third week of November, the U.S. celebrates National Geography Awareness Week, an annual celebration to promote geographic literacy…
Privacy regulations: fear, loathing and AOL
My timing was off. I marketed my book on data, the Numerati, when the world economy was collapsing. I should…
A Pattern Language for Decision-Making
Pattern languages have become all the rage. Why? Because they help codify best practices and provide a vocabulary to talk…
What the business needs from business rules (a thought on mega trends)
Last week Carole-Ann posted on 2 MegaTrends at Business Rules Forum 2010. I normally agree with a lot of what…
