PayPal Winning the Mobile Payments and Mobile Data Race
PayPal is leading consumers and merchants into a ‘digital wallet’ universe and extending their lead with announcing partnerships with NCR…
Two Wrongs Don’t Make an Insight
What keeps IT guys up at night? All that bad data their bosses are using to run the business.In case…
Valuable Big Data Insights via Nike+ Gamification Platform
Nike turned the most uncomplicated sport in the world, running, into a data-driven social sport that gives users access to…
Don’t Gloat Over Excel Model Failures
Two noted economists, Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhardt, recently had their findings on country debt to GDP ratios questioned, as…
Metric-Driven Agile for Big Data
Working in Bing Local Search brings together a number of interesting challenges. Working in Bing Local Search brings together a…
The Secret BI / Big Data Playbook
Emerging Technologies: Cloud, Mobile, Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data are changing the way we do business for the better.…
Why You Need an In-Memory Action Plan
This is a third post of a series based on a SAP-sponsored breakfast meeting organized in Sydney earlier this year…
Consumerization Revisited: Why Aesthetics Matter
I’ve been an advocate of the consumerization of BI for a number of years. Business Discovery platforms like QlikView that…
Adaptive Planning “Suitens” Its Offering
For four years Adaptive Planning has been building out its cloud-based financial software. Starting with budgeting, planning and forecasting, it added analytics,…
The Enterprise Brain
In his 1938 collection of essays, World Brain, H. G. Wells explained that “it is not the amount of knowledge that…
