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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Let’s call the whole thing DI
You say dayta and I say dahta. You say business intelligence—and now Colin White and Claudia Imhoff say “decision intelligence.”…
