A Better Way to Fuel Analytical Needs
We have reached a tipping point sometime in the last few years when analytics is being driven by business people…
Tableau Thrives in Providing Visual Discovery for Business Analytics
Tableau Software is growing fast. Tableau has taken a “land and expand” strategy that drives what they call the democratization of…
Benchmarks Can Reveal the Finance Department’s Achilles Heel
Data published in a recent infographic (www.tagetik.com/infographic) based on survey information compiled by APQC shows that the cost of finance…
What Every CEO Needs to Know About IT
The business/IT divide is a barrier that prevents most companies from achieving their true performance potential. The divide has remained…
Analytics at Google: Great Example of Data-Driven Decision-Making
Google is a company in which fact-based decision-making is part of the DNA and where Googlers (that is what Google…
A Decade of Research at Ventana Research
I’m happy to say that Ventana Research celebrated its tenth anniversary at our recent Business Technology Innovation Summit in San Jose…
What’s Wrong with Today’s Planning and Budgeting
People have been complaining about the budgeting and planning processes in their organizations for decades. If you’re old enough, you…
Technology Change Reaps Rewards
How Salesforce.com Blazed a New TrailTechnology enables change, and change drives success. We measure success in terms of change: increases,…
Business Planning Benchmark Shows No Improvement in How Companies Plan and Budget
Organizations engage in a range of forward-looking activities. Sales organizations have pipelines to forecast sales. Manufacturing organizations set and reset…
BI Advice for Midsize Organizations: Keep It Simple
The incessant talk these days about Big Data in the context of business intelligence is understandable. The unprecedented growth and…
