Companies Can’t Afford to Use BI to Cut Costs?
I talked about this research in a previous post, but thought it was worth pulling out the charts to show…
It Would Have Been a Crime not to Include Analytics in This New Application
Today, SAP launched SAP Investigative Case Management for Public Sector, a new solution to support police and other investigating authorities…
Data Governance? What’s That? (And How Can Companies Fix It?)
A recent survey of business and IT leaders carried out by Kalido shows that over two thirds of businesses have…
Bad Decisions: Just Blame Evolution?
February 12th 2009 will mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of naturalist Charles Robert Darwin. He researched, popularized,…
Is There Such a Thing as Good Gut Decisions?
Thinking and Emotions are Inextricably Linked It's long been known that real-life decision-making involves more than just data and logic.…
MicroStrategy: The Start of the End? or Just a New Product Cycle?
MicroStrategy announced their 4Q 2008 results yesterday. The stock price rose, since the company beat analyst estimates, but as InformationWeek…
More Milk Please, Ermintrude! A Classic Decision Trap?
According to a recent article published in Scientific American, the authors of study assert that: "Farmers who have named their…
BusinessObjects is The Best Thing About SAP Business Suite 7?
As I’m sure everybody knows by now, SAP launched Business Suite 7 last week. There was a “let’s-wait-and-see” attitude in…
Measuring the benefits of Business Intelligence
This post is based on some comments that I made on an article by Dorothy Miller at IT Business Edge.…
Coffee with “Tiberius”
I ran into one of my first and best TDWI friends this morning. Even after all this time, he cannot…