Personalization: The Underappreciated Aspect of Self-Service Business Intelligence
These days, it seems like you can’t read an article about business intelligence (BI) without seeing the term “self-service.” Self-service…
The Power of Cloud-based BI and Analytics
Thanks to the exponential growth in the use of unstructured data by companies, including social customer data, many decision-makers are…
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Ease-of-Use Key to Consumerization of BI
Conventional BI, it seems, has a New Year’s resolution problem. As with eating better and working out more, everyone agrees…
Text Analytics WIIFM (What’s in it for Me?)
Every day or so, someone asks me what’s hot in analytics now. My answer is simple – text. Text analytics,…
Here’s How to Use Decision Management to Improve Cross-Channel Experience
Retailing today had an interesting article – “Best Buy, Sears, Target tops in cross-channel performance” – about the importance and…
Data Management: Reaching Into the Cloud
In a form of “shadow IT”, Line-of-Business groups have been turning to cloud-based services to quickly set up technology solutions…
Three Implications for the Rise of E-Readers
For the first time ever, Amazon.com sold more electronic than printed books.