Why is a 15 Year Old’s Insights More Interesting Than a Market Researchers?
There’s a lot of talk online today about an article in the Guardian about how Media execs at Morgan Stanley…
Repurposing Your Data Warehouse Platform—Not!
I’ve noticed lately that data warehouse vendors are dusting off the arguments and pitches of days gone by. Don’t buy…
The Federal Government and Analytics
I have recently read the latest Australian Federal Government's report on innovation. The report is called 'Powering Ideas: An Innovation…
Robert McNamara: good analytics, bad judgment
Tom Davenport on former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and how he failed despite good analytics.McNamara was a hedgehog rather…
A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big…
Financial Services Analysis For Free
If you work at a Financial Services organization there is a great new source of free information. Chris Pratt, formerly…
The End of Relational Databases?
Hasso Plattner, SAP’s co-founder, chairman, and “Chief Software Advisor” has been giving a series of talks including his keynote at…
Positioning your Database Start Up for Data Warehousing
Image via WikipediaBI/Data Warehousing is an easier market to enter for new database platform vendors. This is for a few…
Business Rules are a failed abstraction – so what?
Syndicated from ebizQJeff Attwood had a great post over on Coding Horror – All Abstractions Are Failed Abstractions in which…
Moving BI Into The Cloud Part 1
Over the last year I have been reading a lot about cloud computing and trying to predict how this can…
