#4: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:The future is now…
SaaS: Outsourcing out-of-control?
SaaS is effectively the same as outsourcing - you're handing control over business processes to a third-party service provider. However,…
Stuck in First Gear
Big investments were made in recent years in IT. IBM, Oracle/Siebel and SAP lead the market and were successful not…
Do We Really Need More Data?
Stephen Few had another of his great posts on his Visual Business Intelligence blog - Do We Really Need More…
More than just “The Usual Suspects” – Doing Due Diligence for DW and BI Tools
The publishing of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves is eagerly awaited by vendors in many IT categories, particularly those…
Would Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear for Performance Management?
This week I presented seminars in Amsterdam and took some time to visit the Van Gogh Museum. It is a…
The Great Recession: Four Vendor Responses for Partners
Welcome Darren Bibby with this guest post. Darren is IDC'sProgram Director for Software Partner, Channels and Alliancesin my Software Business Solutions…
Why Data Sampling Leads to Bad Decisions
New technologies enabling terabyte-scale data analysis are causing a shift in the market away from sampling techniques. This is good…
History of BI Month
Here is a good video tutorial from a cool guy working for Microsoft. If you have 10 minutes 36 seconds…
