IBM Brings Business Analytics to Apple iPad
Fulfilling its intention to make it easier to access and use analytics and business intelligence, IBM released its Cognos Mobile application natively…
Connecting the BI Dots: An Introduction
When I teach my master’s degree classes I use slides to present the theoretical, and then use workshops to illustrate…
RulesFest 2011 – Kenny Shi: Scalability in a Real-Time Decision Platform
My friend Kenny has decided to also talk about performance. Given the magnitude of the traffic on eBay and the…
Crossing the Language Chasm: Extracting Information from Foreign-Language Text
Just a few years ago, text analytics was unknown to most business people, even most data analysts. Today, more and…
Business Analytics Optimization Keynote #iod11
Fred Balboni gave the Business Analytics and Optimization keynote. You can get a “faster planet” without analytics, just by automating…
What is Social Media Research?
You know, this seems to be a simple question that ought to have a simple answer. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. I’ve…
Social Software, Feature or Product?
We have this debate running about social software and whether it's, for the most part anyway, a set of features…
Decide.com – New Search Ideas for Unstructured Data
In this video from BizIntelligence.TV, University of Washington professor and entrepreneur Oren Etzioni describes his work in data searching innovation…
Big Data – Big Change or Big Hype?
In the Information part of Information Technology, Big Data is the Big Hit of 2011. It's also a wonderful phrase…
Decision Management Systems drive the second economy
Cross-posted from International Institute for Analytics There was a great article recently in the McKinsey Quarterly – The Second Economy.…