Where to start with business rules
I was working on my chapter for the forthcoming SAP BPM book (Applying Real-World BPM in an SAP Environment) and…
A New Fun Feature for Our Community, from Stephen Baker
As some of you may realize, SmartDataCollective is part of a stable of eight, influencer/community sites moderated, or as some…
How Will We Make Decisions in the Future?
How will we make decisions in the future? Bruno Aziza, Worldwide Lead Strategist for Microsoft’s Business Intelligence group culled the…
Use Business Intelligence To Compete More Effectively
Business Intelligence often is associated with optimization, innovation and prediction, all of which are sure to be discussed at the…
Some Basic (Absolute) Analytics
I meet and learn from a number of email marketers who are true devotees to the science of analytics –…
The Value of Crowdsourced Insight
I have just been reading David Cameron's blog where he talks about an interesting hack from India. You can read the…
Text Analytics Guru: Interview with Seth Grimes
Anderson Analytics’ Tom H. C. Anderson speaks with Seth Grimes about text mining. If you know of text analytics you…
Google Data, Statistics, and the Semanticized Web
I imagine that Google employs many hundreds of data scientists, folks whose job is to study and turn to good…
The Semantic Web, Customer Service, and the Financial World
Yogi Berra once said, “It’s like deja-vu, all over again.” With regard to new technologies, the same continues to hold…
Confusion between Cloud ERP and SaaS ERP software
In a recent post, we provided definitions of cloud computing, SaaS, and web-based software. The definitions provided were compiled from…


