Microsoft takes on Google and IBM in science cloud
Microsoft, the Times reports, is offering scientists free access to its cloud computing. This is important because scientists are grappling…
Python Programs for Non-Python People
Python programs written to run in BEGIN PROGRAM blocks are easy to write and add lots of functionality to IBM…
Accenture study: Companies structured for gut-thinking, not analytics
An Accenture study released today has some grim news for the analytically-minded. The survey of 600 senior managers shows that…
Ode to Initiate Systems
In which Jill pays homage to a class act. The rumors of IBM’s acquisition of MDM vendor Initiate Systems were…
Stamen Design: Illustrating the physics of information
Ben Cerveny of Stamen Designs was speaking before me at the Webtrends Engage conference yesterday. Stamen, an eight-person shop in…
Mapping the Massachusetts election upset with R, ctd
Last week we looked at an analysis done in R by the good folks at Offensive Politics, looking at the…
Is your legacy modernization program just “forward to the 70s”?
Phil Murphey, over at Forrester, had a post on Apps Modernization – What are Your Top Priorities in 2010/11? that…
Freescalin’ at the Gartner BI Summit
This week finds me at the Gartner BI Summit in London on Monday and Tuesday; in Helsinki on Wednesday and…
Reward of Being the Top Market Researcher on Twitter
My views on using Twitter for marketing and market research I wasn’t going to blog about this, but I’ve started…
Converting Prospects into Repeat Buyers in Five Steps
Here are five best practices that work for marketers to convert their prospects into buyers, and then repeat buyers -…