Internal BI Promotion Video from the SAP BI Competency Center
SAP drinks its own champagne! One often-underestimated element required for successful business intelligence projects is strong communication skills. Here’s a…
A Tale of Two Seas
A friend of mine sent an interesting article recently which highlights the differences between the Dead Sea and Sea of…
SAS Vertical Strategy
Focus of the presentation from Russ Cobb was Banking, Insurance, Retail and Government. Banking first. Lots of releases this year…
Decision Management in the New York Times
There was an interesting article in the New York Times this weekend called Smarter than you think focused on e-discovery…
Data, Data Everywhere
"Big data" is everywhere—whether you’re talking about the explosion of new data sources and subsequent volumes or even the ubiquitous use…
BI Challengers: Disrupting the Mega Vendor?
I recently wrote a post on my predictions for BI in 2011. I received lots of feedback about my thoughts with most…
Location Based Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence and GIS software have both been around for many years. More recently they have become closely integrated, with…
Delivering Data Warehousing and BI Projects using Agile
There is a lot of buzz lately around Agile BI and Agile data warehousing. Typical questions asked include - Does…
Statistics: The Need for Integration
I'd like to revisit an issue we covered here, way back in 2007: Statistics: Why Do So Many Hate It?.…
BI for SMBs – Video Interview with Jim Ericson
While in Las Vegas at TDWI I spoke with Jim Ericson about BI for SMBs. Many companies struggle with the…


