BI 2010 – Making BI more strategic
I have just opened ITWeb’s BI 2010 in Johannesburg talking about decisions and importance of decision making in making BI…
Performance Management via Word of Mouse
The way that organizations learn today is much different than twenty years ago. Back then, for example, managers learned by…
Referential Treatment – The Open Source Reference Data Trend
Reference data can be used in a huge number of data quality and data enrichment processes. The simplest example is…
Microsoft’s anti-Google weapon: Open-source Bing
Google continues to punish Microsoft in search, taking some 70% of the market. Worse, Google is offering lots of free…
Scorecards in PMML: A Primer
Scorecards are extremely popular, since they provide a clear and effective to way to predict outcome for a variety of…
What to store in our heads?
I'll start with what sounds like a silly question: Which brain do you do most of your thinking with,…
A social network… for the one dollar bill in your pocket.
Have you seen this? www.wheresgeorge.com is an effort to track how cold hard cash is flowing across the country. You…
Tableau Public launches visual analysis for the masses
I’m sorry to tell you serious types out there, but visual analysis is often a game — in fact, one…
The Best ‘NEXT’ Campaigns
So much time & money is spent on converting prospects into customers or members. We advertise on TV, the radio,…
Web Mining: Short/Long Term User Profile
It’s now nearly one year that I manage a project about targeted advertising for a Telco company in Switzerland. The…