BI 2010 – Optimizing revenue collection

Eugene from SARS, the South African Revenue Service, presented next on how SARS is using BI in revenue collection. He…

JamesTaylor
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BI 2010 – BI Competency Centers

Two presenters (Saroj from Standard Bank and Angela from Investec) discussed Business Intelligence Competency Centers to start day 2. A…

JamesTaylor
5 Min Read

Guest Post: Si Chen on Cloud Computing and Open Source

A few days ago, I wrote a post about picking up the phone and not relying exclusively on social networking…

PhilSimon
11 Min Read

Mining Social Media

 The finest example of social media mining that I have found to-date is the superb site Please Robe Me. In…

Steve Bennett
1 Min Read

Healthcare Information Systems Need ADW Therapy!

Healthcare information systems everywhere are on the operating table. Some are in intensive care. I’m not a doctor and I…

DarrylMcDonald
5 Min Read

10 Market Research Challenges

Data Privacy on the Web? As part of the recent BAQMaR Conference in Ghent Belgium, 10 upcoming challenges to the…

TomAnderson
3 Min Read

Sign this contract here: its all free…Or is it?

In previous years, Federal Government agencies have been given riding instructions to get the cheapest, "all you can eat" licensing…

TeradataAusNZ
5 Min Read

Building Competitive Advantage through New Data

One subject that has not received a lot of coverage in the analytics blogging circle is the current administration’s data.gov…

Editor SDC
4 Min Read

BI 2010 – Some thoughts on data quality and governance

Several sessions this afternoon on data quality and governance. Rather than blogging these separately, here are some thoughts: Great illustration…

JamesTaylor
5 Min Read

Why I Disabled Google Buzz

I smiled when I first read the Google Buzz announcement on February 9. I liked what I saw about a…

ariherzog
5 Min Read