Why CRM ain’t CRM if it isn’t Social
Almost a year back, I wrote about how four independent trends, namely Social Media, Smart Phones/Portable Devices, Cloud Computing/SaaS and Predictive Analytics were converging…
Using Social Media Contests & Research for Lead Generation
People love to win prizes. They love to win in business and in life. They will usually be willing to…
Big data, big acquisition, still some big questions
Teradata announced its intent to acquire Aster Data today. Obviously this is big news in analytics-land and I participated in…
Why The Last Decade of BI Best-Practice Architecture is Rapidly Becoming Obsolete
Business analytics, or solving business problems through better use of data, is absolutely nothing new. But every decade or so…
First Look – Opera Solutions
I got a chance to catch up with Opera Solutions recently. A company that aims to improve “machine intelligence” and…
Tough Analytics? Watson to the Rescue
"Quickly Watson, get your service revolver!" Is Watson about to put business intelligence out of its misery? Is the good…
Dresner: Mobile Business Intelligence to Transform BI Industry
Highlights from the Howard Dresner Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study 2011 webcast Can you feel it? Sense it? See it…
Are You Enchanting? A Book Review
What Next Gen Researchers can learn from Guy Kawasaki Even though I get several requests, I hardly ever promote books…
TDWI Vendor Panel on the Future of BI – Part Two
Last week I wrote about the TDWI Executive Summit vendor panel discussion on the Future of BI. It was a…
First Look – Gurobi Optimization
Gurobi is the latest entrant to the mainstream optimization engine market (IBM/ILOG CPLEX and FICO Dash being the two main…
