BI buying decisions: the rule of thumb
A longtime salesperson of BI products says he weighs the average decision to buy this way: About 50 percent of…
Beyond the Buzz: The Quiet Thunder of Active Data Warehousing
That cicada buzzing sound you hear in the high-tech media around data appliances may lead some to believe that this…
Accidental iPhone BI
I admit it -- I converted to Apple. It started with an accidental iPhone purchase. I never intended to buy…
RightNow to acquire Social Software Platform Vendor HiveLive
Today SaaS CRM vendor RightNow announced its intent to acquire HiveLive, a full featured social software platform for ~$6M in…
Fantasy League Data Quality
For over 25 years, I have been playing fantasy league baseball and football. For those readers who are not familiar…
Integrating customer preferences
I was talking to an interesting company today – TOA Technologies (review tomorrow) – and as we were talking we…
Slow BI and the BIG Method Part 3
Continuing on from my recent posts introducing the BIG Method of Slow BI, here are the major steps and also the amount of…
Slow BI and the BIG Method Part 2
Continuing on from my last post introducing the BIG Method of Slow BI, here are the major steps and also…
Slow BI and the BIG Method Part 1
A while ago, I blogged about what I call Slow BI. With this I am advocating that we take time…
Free as in Freebase
It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about Freebase, the semantic web database maintained by Metaweb. But I recently had…
