Business Intelligence Training: Are Colleges or Companies Responsible?
Author:Amanda Brandon, Spotfire Blogging TeamI recently discussed how the future of business intelligence is in education. Now the question of who…
Top Three Ways BI Buyers Choose Badly
Most people shopping for business intelligence tools think they’re sophisticated, observes a sales person who often represents a large vendor…
The Difference Between ‘Knowledge Discovery’ and ‘Data Mining’
KDD is a non-trivial process for identifying valid, new, potentially useful and ultimately understandable patterns in dat. It consists of…
Decision Management’s ‘Epsom Salt’ Problem
Have you looked at a packet of Epsom Salt recently? Here’s a product that describes itself as a soaking aid…
Big Data Is The Next Frontier For Innovation, Competition and Productivity
Author: Steve McDonnellSpotfire Blogging TeamLast month I blogged about Big Data challenges and opportunities. This month I want to elaborate…
How BI and Data Analytics Professionals Used Twitter in June
Author: Amanda BrandonSpotfire Blogging TeamJune was a busy month on Twitter in the Business Intelligence and Data Analytics space. This…
Tackling Big Data on Police Use of Force
According to a review recently put out by the the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), the Albuquerque Police Department (APD) was…
Want Magic? Spill the Secrets of Your Black Box
With the rise of cloud computing, it’s easy to get the impression customers don’t care how a particular process or…
New Research on Business Rules from Forrester
John Rymer and Mike Gualtieri of Forrester have published two interesting new reports on business rules – The Future Of…
BI Wisdom Twitter Chat Recap: Collaborative BI
Author: Amanda BrandonSpotfire Blogging TeamIt’s time for a Tweet chat recap that’s all about collaboration and the wisdom of some…


