From BI to Enterprise IT Integration
Autumn has arrived here in Cape Town and with it a slight chill in the air. In a couple of…
Carl Hiassen, Drama, and Data Governance
Just finished listening to an interview with the great writer Carl Hiassen, a fellow Floridian and chronicler of crazy. (It…
Back To Basics: The Business Requirement For Reporting
Corporate business intelligence is my bread and butter and I have just spent some time writing down some basic explanations…
Walled Gardens and the Value of Innovation: Questions for Bill Franks
Two interesting articles of note in the current Harvard Business Review, one, an interview with John (“I’m not Meg Whitman”)…
The New Quantitative Era: Creating Successful Business Change with Analytics
Tom Davenport kicked off the second day of Predictive Analytics World with a keynote on the new era of quantitative,…
Social Media Data and what analysts can do with it
It is worth looking at what having our lives "digitalized" means since all of the information currently generated from usage…
5 Ways Predictive Analytics Cuts Enterprise Risk
Eric Siegel opened Predictive Analytics World with a view of using predictive analytics in enterprise risk management. Eric began by…
Am I Being Too Optimistic About How Companies Will Use Social Media Data?
“I think you are being too optimistic about how companies will use the data from social media.”