In-database analytics – a white paper
My co-author on Smart (Enough) Systems, Neil Raden, has written a great white paper on in-database analytics that is available…
Salesforce Chatter: Facebook for the enterprise?
The business world is crawling with software vendors and consultancies selling collaboration tools, from Microsoft's Sharepoint to IBM's Lotus Notes.…
Enhancing IT Support to the Counter Terror Effort: Design Criteria
This is the concluding post on enhancing IT innovation in support of the Counter Terror effort. The first part focused…
According to Gartner Social CRM is Going to be Big
I read an interesting article on information age a few days ago which references some new Gartner predictions around Social…
Object types in R: The fundamentals
If you're a self-taught R programmer, you've probably grappled with the different kinds of objects you can use in the language. When…
The Analytic Entrepreneur Series: Dr. Robert Phillips
Bob Phillips, a legend in revenue management and pricing circles, guest-lectured to my MIT Sloan analytics class last week. It…
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…
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…
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…
Mining Social Media
The finest example of social media mining that I have found to-date is the superb site Please Robe Me. In…