AT&T studies user data to cope with iPhone crunch
An excellent piece in the WSJ (behind subscriber wall) about AT&T's push to cope with the exploding data traffic of…
When Vendors Attack (Each Other)
In the new edition of Why New Systems Fail , I expanded many sections, including the one about support for…
Searching SPSS Case Data: An Enhancement to the SPSSINC PROCESS FILES Extension Command
I recently posted a new extension command, SPSSINC PROCESS FILES (along with SPSSINC SPLIT DATASET). The command applies a syntax…
Scientists misusing Statistics
In ScienceNews this month, there's controversial article exposing the fact that results claimed to be "statistically significant" in scientific articles…
New Rexer Analytics survey
I recently got the survey results from the annual data mining survey that Karl Rexer or Rexer Analytics runs. You…
MDM Can Challenge Traditional Development Paradigms
I’ve been making the point in the past several years that master data management (MDM) development projects are different, and…
Kick-starting Intelligence in Berlin
During the Teradata Enterprise Intelligence Summit in Istanbul last year, we introduced our community relations programme, Teradata Cares, for the…
Association of Change Management Professionals. Bureaucracy or needed structure?
I admit it. I’m completely on the fence about the Association of Change Management Professionals (ACMP). The second annual ACMP…
5 Must-Do’s to Prepare Change
I already mentioned IBM's The Enterprise of the Future survey, revealing that companies are more and more bombarded by change. The winning…
Facebook estimates $350 million in 2009 from Performance Advertising
As Facebook was estimating it’s total profits from 2009 to be $635 million, over half, or $350 million of that was…