Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?
At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence - BI - and…
Tactical Meandering
tactics /táktiks/ n.pl. 2 a the plans and means adopted in carrying out a scheme or achieving some end. (O.E.D.) meander…
What Skills Does an Oracle BI Developer Need in 2009?
I recently read this article from Rittman Mead Blog .He has written clearly about the booming skillset needed for a…
Follow your SQL Server on Twitter!
This is kind of a gimmick but also kind of cool so I thought I would blog about it here. …
Accuracy not just confidence – some thoughts after attending SAS Global Forum 2009
I spent a couple of days with thousands of SAS users this week at the SAS Global Forum 2009. There…
REvolution Computing welcomes Danese Cooper
We're as happy as clams here at REvolution, because Danese Cooper has joined REvolution Computing's management team as our Open…
Don’t think percentages, think real people
We see risk statistics in news articles every day. "One extra unit of alcohol a day increases a woman's risk…
On-Demand Index: YTD is in the green (and it’s not St Patty’s Day)
On-Demand Index spiked even higher than the jubilant market yesterday gaining 8.43%. With yesterday’s gain the On-Demand Index moved into…
The specific benefits of business intelligence in Insurance
IntroductionInsurance – specifically Property Casualty Insurance – is the industry that I have worked within for the last twelve years.…
KXEN releases Social Network Analysis tool
KXEN, the automated model making software company added one more innovation by being one of the first major data mining…