What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
I was asked this question last week at an internal meeting for the BI teams of a large Nordic telecom…
Truly Distributed Analytics
The growth and success of Hadoop is very interesting. It is emerging as a highly significant technology for the data…
That Wall Dividing IT and Users
What more can I say about this provocative and contentious issue of a barrier wall separating IT and the business…
Visualization the Key to Grown Up Business Intelligence
In a recent “sticky dots” poll at the Business Intelligence Executive Summit hosted by TDWI, data visualization was a technology that…
Data Quality is not an Act, it is a Habit
The Second Law of Data Quality states that it is not a one-time project, but a sustained program. Or to…
Information Management is Big. Really big
"Information Management is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you…
Where is BI heading?
Between a few recent briefings, last week’s BBBT Incubator session, and my attendance at SAP TechEd change seems to be…
Hold on to your hats: it’s World Statistics Day!
Apparently today is the first ever World Statistics Day. I only knew about it because I'd seen a couple of…
Some NoSQL Myths
I have been busy travelling recently but thought I would jot down a couple of NoSQL myths that are fresh…
A Semantic Web Case Study
This series on the semantic web started with an introduction in Part I, continued with the business case in Part…