Enterprise Software: Is there any one left to buy?
The high tech Titans - IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and EMC (EMC) – have…
Bad economics are difficult to shake off
Terry Pratchett once wrote that “Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.” We could make a similar…
The Netflix Prize and Freeing Data Analytics
This week, Netflix presented the first Netflix Prize, awarding the Belkour Pragmatic Chaos team the $1 Million grand prize in…
A Sustainability Storm is Brewing for BI
Another clap of thunder rumbled across the sustainability landscape recently. I received a press release from a company called CSC,…
All Business Analysts are Not Created Equal
At a client meeting recently I was informed that the company had over 150 business analysts. Even the client’s business…
Adding decision management to your BPM initiative
Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Adding decision management to your BPM initiative.Syndicated from ebizQ Last…
BI FAIL #2
Seth Grimes of Alta Plana gives us a great example of business intelligence failure this week on the site USAspending.gov.…
#22: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Who’s with you on…
How to Create and Deploy Effective Metrics
I’m trying to catch up on a big backlog of materials and documents and documents that I’ve found useful… Here’s…
You Call This Mobile CRM?
Not too long ago, I saw an interesting article on mobile coupons titled Coupons You Don’t Clip, Sent to Your…


