Predictive Analytics Spotlight from IBM
Deepak Advani kicked off day 2. SPSS was acquired by IBM in 2009 and, like all acquisitions, has to report…
Information Availability: Exploiting the Full Value of Information to Drive Business
Year after year, analyst survey results show that CIOs view their top priority to be aligning with business strategy and…
Do Customers REALLY Want to Know What’s Inside the Black Box?
From politician salaries to calorie counts on restaurant items, “transparency” is a key buzzword in government and business circles. However,…
SAP and The Hoover Dam
First, I did not go to SAPPhire Now 2011. Had to get that out of the way quickly (and to…
Getting Started with an Integration Competency Center (ICC)
In the last several posts we discussed how critical data governance programs are to the success of EDW, MDM, CDI…
Will Supply Chain BI Work For Your Company?
If you want to effectively manage your supply chain, you have to invest in business intelligence (BI) software.
Big Data and the New Face of Commerce
Here's a simple task, let's say you have an antique that you want to sell on eBay and you need…
Update – Software AG
I got an update from Software AG after they announced webMethods 8.2 and ARIS 7.2.These two releases are the end…
Can we make the Information Revolution better for society?
It is easy to assume that access to massive amounts of information is good for society. Perhaps we should also…