BI 2010 – BI Competency Centers
Two presenters (Saroj from Standard Bank and Angela from Investec) discussed Business Intelligence Competency Centers to start day 2. A…
Guest Post: Si Chen on Cloud Computing and Open Source
A few days ago, I wrote a post about picking up the phone and not relying exclusively on social networking…
Healthcare Information Systems Need ADW Therapy!
Healthcare information systems everywhere are on the operating table. Some are in intensive care. I’m not a doctor and I…
Building Competitive Advantage through New Data
One subject that has not received a lot of coverage in the analytics blogging circle is the current administration’s data.gov…
BI 2010 – Some thoughts on data quality and governance
Several sessions this afternoon on data quality and governance. Rather than blogging these separately, here are some thoughts: Great illustration…
BI 2010 – Making BI more strategic
I have just opened ITWeb’s BI 2010 in Johannesburg talking about decisions and importance of decision making in making BI…
Performance Management via Word of Mouse
The way that organizations learn today is much different than twenty years ago. Back then, for example, managers learned by…
Referential Treatment – The Open Source Reference Data Trend
Reference data can be used in a huge number of data quality and data enrichment processes. The simplest example is…
Scorecards in PMML: A Primer
Scorecards are extremely popular, since they provide a clear and effective to way to predict outcome for a variety of…
Tableau Public launches visual analysis for the masses
I’m sorry to tell you serious types out there, but visual analysis is often a game — in fact, one…
