“Why Business Intelligence projects fail”
IntroductionIn this blog, I have generally tried to focus on success factors for Business Intelligence programmes. I suppose this reflects…
Discovering Analytics – A Revelation or Slow Investigation?
In a May 31, 2009 article in the business section of the New York Times about techniques to evaluate the…
Dinner at Per Se With salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff
When the invitation came to join salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff for dinner at Per Se, the immediate answer was “yes” for…
A Letter to Our Users, From Your BI Team
In which Jill writes a rebuttal letter to a rebuttal letter, this time from IT. Two posts ago, I penned…
New Media Quizzes, Surveys, and Games: Business Analytics Opportunities
If you are in Facebook you have seen a large number of friends take quizzes, surveys, and play games. What…
Interview – David Smith REvolution Computing
Here is an Interview with REvolution Computing’s Director of Community David Smith.” Our development team spent more than six months…
How Your Medium-Size Business Can Join the BI Revolution
Earlier this week, I recorded a Webinar with Birst that focused on helping mid-market companies take advantage of BI solutions…
It’s not about the software… but…
I was walking back from the Post Office this afternoon (it's one of those clear, amazing San Francisco days, I…
Why BI Projects Fail and What To Do About it
This session was presented at Mastering BusinessObjects 2009 conference in Manly, Sydney. It covers the six main areas that most…
Why Statistics is the next sexy profession
Google's Chief Economist, Hal Varian, recently said, "The sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians." On the…