Business Intelligence – The Evolution of a Species
Traditional business intelligence has been focused on knowledge creation. If it were a species, you might envision it feeding on…
A Question of User Expectations
Ideally, a search engine would read the user’s mind. Shy of that, a search engine should provide the user with…
The language of Statistics
R is the lingua franca of Statistics: R code and R packages is the means by which statisticians communicate ideas…
How Data Analytics Will Solve Our Biggest Problems
Researchers are close to testing a vaccine for HIV that was developed based on data analytics. A hospital was able…
What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
I was asked this question last week at an internal meeting for the BI teams of a large Nordic telecom…
Information Management is Big. Really big
"Information Management is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you…
Where is BI heading?
Between a few recent briefings, last week’s BBBT Incubator session, and my attendance at SAP TechEd change seems to be…
Hold on to your hats: it’s World Statistics Day!
Apparently today is the first ever World Statistics Day. I only knew about it because I'd seen a couple of…
Open Source on an upward trend
Accenture’s recent report would indicate very positive developments for Open Source solutions. Interesting commentary recently in Silicon Republic The article…
10 Guiding Principles for Better Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence (BI) refers to the skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making, and is crucial component…
