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Please check out the Text Analytics Summit, Boston, June 12-13

May 16, 2012 by Seth Grimes
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The Text Analytics Summit was the first business-focused conference dedicated to BI on text, to techniques that turn text into data in the service of diverse applications, and it remains the best. [read more]

Analytics for Creating More Choices

May 15, 2012 by Gary Cokins
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Analytics’ goal should be to gain insights and solve problems, to make better and quicker decisions with more accurate and fact-based data, and to take actions. “Big data” with high performance computing is allowing organizations to deploy business analytics to have more choices and make better decisions. [read more]

Outsourcing, Off-shoring and Near-shoring – what works or doesn't for BI & DWH

May 14, 2012 by Shaughn Knight
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Well, the unique selling point of any outsourcing vendor is their customer testimony. The published customer testimonial will show you only an ideal picture of the vendor’s perfection and not the failed projects. Practically failed projects of a vendor are tough to be identified. [read more]

Business Rules, Decision Management and ASUG

May 14, 2012 by James Taylor
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I do a lot of work with companies and organizations adopting business rules and Business Rules Management Systems (BRMS) such as BRFplus and NetWeaver BRM. I wanted to share two things (as I head off to Sapphire/ASUG). [read more]

How Business Analytics Can Lead to That ‘Aha’ Moment

May 14, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Core insights take data and make forward looking predictions, like how customers will act in the future or where, when and how a market will shift. Gartner Inc. describes analytics as the “combustion engine of business” and notes that the companies that use predictive analytics to analyze voluminous structured and unstructured data will grow 20% more than their competitors. [read more]

Meet Your Company’s New Virtual Assistant – Big Data

May 11, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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AutoPilot is a sort of virtual assistant from Frankfurt-based IT automation and managed services company Arago. AutoPilot combines data and artificial intelligence to take over the most boring and repetitive tasks of managing a large IT infrastructure – effectively becoming a new “hire” on your sysadmin team. [read more]

Can the Future of Mobile Be Found in Social? CI & CNBC Use Social Media Analytics to Find Out

May 9, 2012 by Jennifer Roberts
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Obviously, there are big changes happening in the mobile space: the recent acquisition of Instagram by Facebook, Google’s purchase of Motorola and T-Mobile’s rebranding ads highlight the dynamic nature of this space. The social aspects will continue to influence both phone adoption and technology enhancements as phone are used for purposes that rely more heavily on a social component, like gaming, sharing photos and music. [read more]

BI Past, Present, Future — Interview with TEC

May 9, 2012 by Timo Elliott
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The key area of improvement that is required is to always remember that BI is about people and the business, not about the software architecture. The technology is, of course, often a challenge, but when BI projects fail, it’s almost inevitably a problem with organization, culture, expectation setting, and business alignment. If you run a BI project, you should be spending more time on these things than the underlying IT infrastructure. [read more]

Business Priorities Point the Way for MDM

May 8, 2012 by Julie Hunt
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In today's volatile business world, it is important to focus MDM on what matters most for the goals of the business to ensure reliable, unified and timely data for key systems and processes. Such data must conform to how information is used by the business. [read more]

Developing Change Management for BI

May 7, 2012 by Mark Bradbourne
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In some regards the pace of change in mature BI implementations can be a day or even a few hours for some aspects like reports or dashboards, were on the other hand your database schemas, aggregate tables and cubes change at a slower pace. The challenge comes from trying to fit one change management structure on to this processes that spin at different rates and responsive needs. [read more]

Domo to Disrupt the BI Software Industry

May 3, 2012 by Doug Lautzenheiser
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Serial entrepreneur Josh James is ready to shake up the Business Intelligence software industry with a company called Domo. [read more]

Death By a Thousand Analytics

May 2, 2012 by Barry Devlin
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Our current obsession with analytics is dangerous. It's based a number of simplifications, misconceptions and downright errors. It is a simplification that business is an entirely rational, fact-driven process. It is a misconception that given sufficient data you can predict the future. It is a downright error to assume that in the future, business can be entirely (or even largely) driven by business analytics. [read more]

Splunk: Big Data Machine for Operational Intelligence

May 1, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Our analysis of Splunk’s latest release of software, version 4.3, found a series of advancements, including supporting access from tablets such as Apple’s iPad, support for data in cloud-based applications and the ability to operate in VMware environments, making it easier to deploy Splunk in the cloud. This version expands the enterprise scale of the platform, supporting more concurrent users and faster search. [read more]

IBM Makes Big Data Deal for Vivisimo and Supports Cloudera Hadoop

April 27, 2012 by Mark Smith
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The Vivisimo acquisition is important for IBM because it has not had a substantive search technology for its information management portfolio that can operate across all types of information. Competitively this is critical; the demand for better search has led Oracle to expand its efforts with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and to acquire Endeca for more depth on structured data. [read more]

Not Only SQL, Not Only Big Data

April 25, 2012 by Barry Devlin
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While I am a long-time supporter of the need for and value of good and extensive information in business, my experience of the purposes for which such information is used and the extent to which decision making benefits is less sanguine. In general business, business intelligence is used almost exclusively in support of a narrowly-focused drive for bottom-line profit. At the risk of being labeled a Communist, I remain unconvinced that this is always a good thing. [read more]

Social Business By Design: Transformative Social Media Strategies for the Connected Company

April 24, 2012 by Bob Gourley
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What excites me about this book? It provides a way for us all to tap into the same game-changing ways of operating that leading companies like SAP, Proctor & Gamble, Ford and IBM use to drive market leading levels of innovation, growth and revenue. This is a great guide to how to run a business, large or small, in the era of social media. It is also a great read as a hedge against disruption yourself (you better read this book or you will get disrupted by those others who are reading the book). [read more]