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Are BI Appliances Simply 30 Year Old Databases?

May 4, 2011 by Elad Israeli
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Is proprietary hardware really required for a so-called BI appliance? No, it’s not. And indeed, I have noticed numerous references to Vertica (acquired by HP) and ElastiCube (by SiSense) as BI appliances. Interestingly enough, both are software-only solutions (i.e. software appliances). [read more]

Microsoft CIO Tony Scott talks about BI

September 29, 2010 by Nic Smith
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Business Intelligence is top of mind for Microsoft Corporate Vice President and CIO, Tony Scott. Watch as Bruno Aziza gets the inside scoop on how Tony’s team thinks about BI.   [read more]

The World is Addicted to Data (and that's good for us)

December 21, 2009 by Steve Sarsfield
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In the famous book “The Transparent Society,” we are asked to consider some of the privacy ills we will be facing as technology improves and our society gains access to more data sets. The book was groundbreaking when it was written in 1999. It imagines the emergence of groups who are more powerful because they own the data. However... [read more]

Microsoft’s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand

December 1, 2009 by Timo Elliott
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Just over two years ago, BusinessObjects launched Information OnDemand, an online store allowing you to buy information from premium providers such as Dun & Bradstree, the US Census Bureau, NewsTin, etc. And now Microsoft have launched their “Dallas” project, a variation on the same theme: “Microsoft’s Information Services... [read more]

Blogging from Istanbul

October 19, 2009 by Teradata Experts
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I just got back from Istanbul where I had the pleasure of participating in the the ETIS Community gathering entitled “Data is King – the Key Asset for Future Telco Business.” This was a really interesting two-day conference with presentations from Deutsche TeleKom, Croatian Telecom, TurkCell, TeliaSonera, Belgacom, CYTA, and OTE – and... [read more]

Man and superman

October 10, 2009 by Chris Dixon
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There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great man theory, neatly summarized by the quote ”the history of the world is but the biography of great men.” This view was famously espoused by the philosopher Hegel and later Nietzche, who called... [read more]

Is Twitter Planning To Monetize The Firehose?

October 8, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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A few months ago, I wrote in “The Twouble with Twitter Search“: But the trickle that Twitter returns is hardly enough. I believe this limitation is by design–that Twitter knows the value of such access and isn’t about to give it away. I just hope Twitter will figure out a way to provide this access for a price, and that an ecology of... [read more]

Enterprise Software: Is there any one left to buy?

September 24, 2009 by Rick Sherman
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The high tech Titans - IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), Oracle (ORCL), Microsoft (MSFT), SAP (SAP) and EMC (EMC) – have been buying software firms at an amazing pace over the last half decade. According to BusinessWeek the tally is: Oracle $30 billion for 56 companies, Microsoft 79 companies, IBM 60 companies, EMC 40, and HPQ 34.... [read more]

#16: Here's a thought...

July 5, 2009 by BrianRoger
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An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:It’s all in the mathSophisticated analytical applications and data warehousing technologies are helping “bring data to life” for governments, citizens and businesses... Through the use of powerful data-visualization applications... [read more]

Even Google Should Beware Of Hubris

June 28, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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One of the best words we’ve inherited from the ancient Greeks is hubris (ὕβρις), defined on Wikipedia as “overweening pride, superciliousness, or arrogance, often resulting in fatal retribution or nemesis.” Homer used hubris to drive the plots (and moral lessons) of  both of his famous epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey. Hubris... [read more]

Search Innovation: Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?

June 26, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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It’s unusual for HCIR to make it into the mainstream business press, so I was delighted when Pete Barlas reached out to me in connection with an article he published Wednesday in Investor’s Business Daily, entitled “Bing Feature Has Many Fathers; Rivals Lining Up To Take Credit“. The genesis for the article was a dispute between... [read more]

Bing vs. Google

June 3, 2009 by Tom Anderson
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Microsoft vs. Google - OR IS IT - Google vs. Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter? Today Microsoft officially launched their new search engine Bing which is supposed to compete with Google. If you’ve followed this in AdAge you know there will be an $80-$100 mm ad campaign accompanying the launch. I checked out Bing earlier this week... [read more]

Banging on Bing: A Bummer

June 1, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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So, Bing is out early. Yes, an early release from Microsoft! And it’s snappy, attractive, and offers decent quality. If I needed to use Bing as my main search engine for the web (yes, readers, imagine a world without Google and Yahoo as search options), I’d survive. But I can’t say I’d be thrilled. I’ve only had a short time to play... [read more]

Waiting for the Big Bing

May 28, 2009 by Daniel Tunkelang
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Everyone is talking about Bing today – well, everyone who isn’t too busy watching Google do the Wave. If you haven’t been paying attention, Microsoft is about to spend $100M to market an upgrade of its web search engine, rebranding it from Live to Bing (by way of Kumo). I’m reserving judgment about it until I have a chance to play with... [read more]

Preview of Project Gemini

May 4, 2009 by Nic Smith
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 Watch a preview of creating an analysis model with Excel and Gemini.Watch a preview of sharing a Gemini model on the web with SharePoint and Excel Services.  Watch for more news on Microsoft BI and project Gemini at Microsoft’s user conference next week, TechEd 2009, May 11-15. This year TechEd will host over 30 sessions related to... [read more]

Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI

April 23, 2009 by Nic Smith
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Here’s a collection of some cool Microsoft BI Demos that I use regularly to showcase aspects of the Microsoft BI stack and show interesting examples of what insight to information can actually accomplish.   Top 10 demos for Microsoft BI     10. Sales Dashboard in Silverlight – visualize sales performance, select regions... [read more]