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Visualizing Data in 3D with Lego

May 9, 2012 by Erica Driver
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People choose tools that are easy and fun. It's pretty basic. We like to feel happy! According to this Fast Company article, Tim Herrick, global chief engineer at GM, uses Lego pieces with his organization to track problem resolution; various colors denote the area of the vehicle and the block size denotes the severity of the problem. Likewise, Dennis Pastor, executive director of performance excellence at WellStar Health Systems, uses Lego bricks with his organization [read more]

Kapow Software harvests and virtualizes information and applications for business.

May 8, 2012 by Mark Smith
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Making business use of the vast amount of information on the Web and Internet along with a company’s intranet is no easy task. Kapow Software aims to help by providing tools to define and virtualize access to information, integrate it with other information, such as that in databases, and present it in a useful format. The tool can supply access to data from legacy applications such as PeopleSoft and Siebel, newer applications from Oracle and SAP and applications in cloud computing environments, such as Salesforce.com’s. [read more]

Big Data Statistics in the Search for a Cure for MS

April 26, 2012 by David Smith
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The SUNY Buffalo is home to one of the leading multiple sclerosis (MS) research centers in the world, and as reported in Healthcare IT News, the research team is using IBM Netezza and Revolution R Enterprise to accelerate its study of more than 2,000 genetic and environmental factors that may contribute to MS symptoms... [read more]

Radius Brings Sales Intelligence on Small Businesses to All Businesses

April 25, 2012 by Brent Leary
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It’s pretty hard to get good information on small businesses, and very hard to get info on very small businesses, which is why a company called Radius caught my attention.  While they’ve been around for about three years, they officially launched their cloud-based sales intelligence service yesterday. What makes their service... [read more]

10 Don’ts for Delivering Mobile Business Intelligence

April 24, 2012 by Lachlan James
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With all the major vendors and analyst firms espousing the growing importance of Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) and touting its potential benefits, it might seem like mobile reporting and analytics is the silver bullet that the BI industry has been waiting for – a cure to sluggish user adoption rates, elusive ROI and persistently poor decision-making. Unfortunately, Mobile BI is not to analytics what Penicillin is to bacteria. Like any other major project, a Mobile BI deployment has to be carefully planned and managed in order to yield desirable results. So, to avoid disappointment and project derailment, remember these 10 Mobile BI no nos: [read more]

The Future of BI in Two Words

April 24, 2012 by Ted Cuzzillo
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Both Tableau and QlikView promise the same magic: Listen to one pitch and you might think that you’re listening to the other. Each sets itself up against traditional, big-iron BI. Each claims to empower business users by giving them all the data and control they need for free discovery. Each is easy to use. Go inside each tent, though, and you see how different they are. [read more]

Infographics Get Pinned on Pinterest

April 20, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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What’s the value of Pinterest for data professionals? Anyone who creates or uses data visualizations can find inspiration in the wide variety of infographic pins, conveniently brought together from many different sources. [read more]

Revealing Human Nature through Social Media Measurement

April 20, 2012 by Lawrence Ampofo
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This recently published article in Nature examined how memes and ideas behave on social media platforms, shedding light on the nature of human behaviour online. In it, the research team claimed that (on Twitter at least) the average online user engages with only a limited number of memes as certain ideas survive, indeed thrive, at the expense of others. [read more]

Big Data Q&A for the Data Protection Law and Policy Newsletter

April 19, 2012 by Jeff Jonas
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I have been given permission to re-publish an interview I did with the Data Protection & Law Policy newsletter. Also to appear in the e-Finance and Payments Law & Policy newsletter. May be of interest to some of my readers. [read more]

Top 3 Ways FP&A Analytics Can Get Your Financial House in Order

April 14, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Here are the top three ways FP&A (finance planning and analysis) analytics can help you get an integrated view of critical data from isolated systems so that your company can make informed decisions, instead of relying on spreadsheets or IT to gain visibility into your financial position. [read more]

Because It's the Weekend: Visualizing Ocean Currents

April 14, 2012 by David Smith
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In yesterday's post about the visualization of sailing ship data, some of the commenters (and me, too!) wondered about the routes the ships took; for example, giving the west coast of Africa a wide berth just to round the Cape of Good Hope. This NASA visualization of simulated ocean currents, thought it's for the years 2005-2007,... [read more]

Using Business Analytics to Ask the Big Questions of Big Data

April 13, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Business analytics can allow your company to successfully exploit the potential of big data and uncover the answers to essential business questions. [read more]

Improvement Project for Services; Remember You're Never Really Done

April 13, 2012 by Jay Arthur
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While define, measure, analyze, improve and control (DMAIC) lead most people to believe they need to start by defining and measuring something, data about the number or cost of these types of defects are already collected somewhere by someone. Find the data! As described in my previous article about Control Charts for Services, get the data into a format that can be graphed as a control chart. [read more]

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Location Intelligence and Mobile BI: Advancing the ‘where’ in mining and exploration

April 12, 2012 by Lachlan James
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You work for Big Mining Co in the mining and exploration industry. Mineral exploration requires and utilizes a diverse range of geographic data types and techniques. Mobile Business Intelligence – the ability to receive reporting and analytics on-the-go via mobile devices – and Location Intelligence – the ability to combine location-based data and traditional metrics captured within a BI system – empower you to uncover otherwise hidden trends, patterns and relationships; no matter where you, or your assets are located. [read more]

Impressions of SAP HANA

April 9, 2012 by Mark Bradbourne
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Bottom line, if you’ve got the budget dollars, and the highly managed data in your source systems then you can make a strong argument to bring HANA into your environment. On the other hand, if you have data challenges around quality or master data management you should probably address those issues first before a major investment like HANA because you won’t see the ROI. [read more]

Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data From Industry and Academia Panel

April 5, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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After government executives announced 0ver $200 million in Big Data initiatives last week, a panel of thought leaders from industry and academia moderated by New York Times technology and innovation reporter Steve Lohr discussed the current state and exciting future of Big Data research. [read more]