IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart…
IBM’s Secret Upside for SPSS Acquisition – Smart Infrastructure | BNET Technology Blog My colleague Michael Hickins was right when…
Another Wave Of Vendor Consolidation?
We all woke up today to the news that IBM is to buy SPSS. IBM is acquiring analytics-software maker SPSS in…
Another BI Vendor Acquired
The big software vendors continue to consolidate the BI market.Today, IBM announced plans to acquire statistical analysis software vendor SPSS…
Africa’s Style of Performance Management
This week I am in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa presenting seminars. The highlight for me was being…
Leveraging your Business Intelligence to Drive Revenues and Profits
Recently there have been a deluge of articles and speeches about how to leverage BI and your information assets to…
Keeping up with the Joneses
The idea of benchmarking isn’t new. We constantly compare our homes, our cars, and our jobs to those around us.…
New Social Media Section
My Keynote Articles page gathers together links to my more substantial blog posts in one place and groups them into…
The Wisdom of Failure
Earlier this month, I had the honor of being interviewed by Ajay Ohri on his blog Decision Stats, which is…
#18: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:Less is moreWe live…
Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there
Last week I was being interviewed by a journalist about Business Analytics amongst other things. I found myself speaking about…
