Some thoughts on mobile
It's the time of year when we at IDC start working on our Top Ten Predictions documents and get some…
Review Of The BI Survey 8
The BI Survey is created each year by analyst Nigel Pendse of the Business Application Research Center (BARC) headquartered in Germany. BARC was…
And now something completely different: brain simulation
Our good folks at the national labs have been developing cloud computing for two decades, so what they are doing…
Operational Analytics in a Recessionary Environment
Lately I have faced an interesting issue with large companies seeking business analytics assistance: how to provide operational predictive analytics…
BI for Baby: Dashboards to Track Your Child’s KPIs (And The Rest of Us)
Prepare your child for the new world of business from its very earliest hours! Trixie Telemetry has released Trixie Tracker,…
#26: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Say cheeseNews reaches us…
OLAP is Dead (Long Live Analytics)
The term OLAP or Online Analytic Processing was coined in 1993 by relational database technology pioneer Ted Codd (my claim…
The Practice Mentality
I’ve always been a sports junkie and, in particular, a fan of SportsCenter. Hey, we all need our escapes from…
New Academic Journal
For anyone who is passionate about BIIM, they should know about a new academic journal out of the US: International…
A Vision Of Data Interaction
I am a long time data visualisation geek and I keep an eye on R&D in the field. A TED…