Two Wrongs Don’t Make an Insight
What keeps IT guys up at night? All that bad data their bosses are using to run the business.In case…
Attensity Uses Social Media Technology for Smarter Customer Engagement
When I last wrote about Attensity I classified it as a “pure play” text analytics vendor, but the latest release of its…
What the Launch of Social.com Shows Us
Yesterday Salesforce announced the launch of Social.com – a social advertising solution that brings the power of Radian6 (R6) and…
Valuable Big Data Insights via Nike+ Gamification Platform
Nike turned the most uncomplicated sport in the world, running, into a data-driven social sport that gives users access to…
How Apple’s iWatch Will Push Big Data Analytics
Is the next big innovation from Apple - a watch - going to change the world of big data as…
Metric-Driven Agile for Big Data
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Working in Bing Local Search brings together a…
The Secret BI / Big Data Playbook
Emerging Technologies: Cloud, Mobile, Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data are changing the way we do business for the better.…
Why You Need an In-Memory Action Plan
This is a third post of a series based on a SAP-sponsored breakfast meeting organized in Sydney earlier this year…
Consumerization Revisited: Why Aesthetics Matter
I’ve been an advocate of the consumerization of BI for a number of years. Business Discovery platforms like QlikView that…
Adaptive Planning “Suitens” Its Offering
For four years Adaptive Planning has been building out its cloud-based financial software. Starting with budgeting, planning and forecasting, it added analytics,…


