A Recap of Dreamforce 2010
Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference opened last Tuesday morning to the driving beat of WILL.I.AM and the showmanship of its flamboyant CEO…
University takes iPad into Trenches of Pompeii
Years ago I took an archaeology course at the University of Cincinnati. At the time, the professor considered the appropriate…
Each NBA Shot is a Decision: What’s the Decision Model?
These days, the sports world is full of people paying close attention to statistics....General Managers use unconventional statistics to find…
Six Data Management Predictions for 2011
This time of year everyone makes prognostications about the state of the data management field for 2011. I thought I’d…
Business Intelligence vs. Enterprise Performance Management
Here's my response in "The Culture of Performance" LinkedIn Group on the question of Business Intelligence being confused with (Corporate)…
Debrief from The White House Forum on IT Management Reform
If you are an enterprise technologist in or out of the Federal Government, please take time to watch the entire…
Mobile BI on the Apple iPad
See Gerry Blackwell's recent Enterprise Mobile Today article on using the Apple iPad for BI. He asks the question, why…
Acting on Data Analytics – More than Food for Thought
Aligning the business and IT stakeholders in the use of data analytics applications in decision-making is a key business challenge…
Put a mobile device on your dashboard
What if you could snap an iPad into your car’s dashboard to make it your interface for some things? Perhaps…
The ABCs of In-Memory Processing
A: What is it? In-memory processing is a fairly simple yet very powerful innovation. Here’s how it works: Retrieving data…
