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Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a…

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Tactical Meandering

  tactics /táktiks/ n.pl. 2 a the plans and means adopted in carrying…

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The specific benefits of business intelligence in Insurance

IntroductionInsurance – specifically Property Casualty Insurance – is the industry that I…

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Short-term “Trouble for Big Business Intelligence Vendors” may lead to longer-term advantage

 This post is another that highlights responses I have made on various…

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Would IBM buying Sun impact the decision management market? Nope.

As my twitter feed starting warming up with thoughts on IBM and…

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A more appropriate metaphor for business intelligence projects

A traditional metaphor for IT projectsIT people are familiar with a number…

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Business Intelligence and The Heisenberg Principle

The Heisenberg Principle states that for certain things accuracy and certainty in…

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Big BI, meet Big Ag

Swap out a few terms in a recent New York Times story…

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Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea?

IntroductionThe phrase IT outsourcing tends to provoke strong reactions. People either embrace…

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“Gartner sees a big discrepancy between BI expectations and realities” – Intelligent Enterprise

 Doug Henschen at Intelligent Enterprise reports from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit…

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