The importance of feasibility studies in business intelligence
Introduction In a previous article, A more appropriate metaphor for business intelligence projects, I explained one complication of business intelligence…
IBM’s Mills: ‘Find me a company not interested in SOA principles’
'Nobody gets up in the morning with the idea that they want to accumulate more redundant IT assets'At a press…
Breaking Free of the One-Page Dashboard Rule
Conventional wisdom says that an executive dashboard must fit on a single page or screen. The argument hinges on a…
The emergence of the mega-tech vendor economy
The event that brought this line of thinking out is the announcement today from IBM and Hubspan have formed a partnership and…
IBM Acquires Exeros Assets – What does this mean for CA Data Profiler?
IBM has announced that it has acquired Exeros, the private company that produces Exeros Discovery X-Profiler, the product upon which…
B2B CRM: The Right Contact Mix for Your Customer Relationship
You’ve spent years gathering contacts into your databases. You’ve implemented a data quality practice that is now starting to give…
Twitter Analytics : Which usage behavior attracts many followers?
This is the first part of a series of posts where Data Mining and Text Mining will be applied to…
Preview of Project Gemini
Watch a preview of creating an analysis model with Excel and Gemini. Watch a preview of…
Building Agile Processes with SOA and Business Rules
Vision Service Plan, VSP, presented on their use of business rules to build agile business processes in healthcare. VSP has…
Dave Wells’ prescription for the incurious
Former TDWI education director Dave Wells keeps running into users whose BI reports might as well be printed. These users…
