Letter to Operations: no more spreadsheets for Purchasing
Editor’s Note: This article addresses supply chain issues in the form of a memo written to the operations management department.…
Why Discovery Really Matters
I recently gave two presentations on trends in BI at IT conferences in Sweden and South Africa and one of…
Managing Decision Logic in Decision Management Technologies
As regular readers know, we have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. This report…
BI’s Dirty Secrets – The Unfortunate Domination of Manually-Coded Extracts
Manually-coded extracts are another dirty secret of the BI world. I’ve been seeing them for years, in both large and…
Publishing and Big Data
As the author of four books, I pay close attention to the publishing world, especially with respect to its use…
What’s the Difference? – A Social Media Monitoring Strategy that Analyzes Intentions Instead of Mentions
At CI we talk a lot about analyzing consumer intentions, extracting consumer expressions of preference with regards to products, viewing…
3 Ways ‘Big Data Analytics’ Will Change Enterprise Performance Management
Success of companies – big or small – will increasingly depend on their ability to capture, analyze and gain insights…
Overlapping Decision Management Technologies Product Categories
We have released the first version of our Decision Management Systems Platform Technology report. One of the challenges is that…
NIST definition of cloud computing doesn’t go far enough
What is cloud computing again? Dave Linthicum revisited this question, observing that many people are referencing the cloud definition established…
Best Thinkers Webinar Series: Liberating Big Data
Join Maggie Fox tomorrow Tuesday March 6th at 12 pm EST / 9am PST for an exclusive live webinar from…