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What I Found Interesting About Gartner BI Summit 2012 London
Gartner has bowed down to the market trend and dropped the unwieldy category name “Business Intelligence and Performance Management” in favor of the simpler umbrella term “Business Analytics”, following in the footsteps of other analysts (e.g. IDC) and vendors (SAS, SAP, etc.). [read more]
The Buzz About Big Data Analytics
Big data is the new buzzword within the data warehousing and business analytics community. According to TDWI recent report on BIG data, there are 3 Vs of big data – Volume which is multiple terabytes or over petabytes, Variety which is numbers, audio, video, text, streams , weblogs, Social media etc & velocity which is the speed... [read more]
Business Intelligence & General Management I
"This article is the first of the total of three that we are going to publish from LITEBI, each one will be part of a Whitepaper focused on the effects and contributions of Business Intelligence to the company from the point of view of the CEO." [read more]
BI Shouldn't Be Part-time Pursuit for Analysts
"...companies need a business-oriented BI team of tech-savvy business analysts tasked with, among other things, gathering requirements, developing BI roadmaps, managing BI budgets, and overseeing BI and data governance programs. These analysts will work with data architects, project managers, technical architects and help desk staff to help ensure the technology framework can support the business requirements." [read more]
Corporate Performance Management and a Report from CFO.com's Conference
"Just because organizations may have converted their tabular performance measures into a visual scorecard with dials does not mean they have implemented the full vision of integrating all of CPM’s integrated methodologies. There are many methodologies such as customer profitability analysis (using activity-based costing principles), rolling driver-based financial forecasts, business analytics, strategy maps and its companion balanced scorecard." [read more]
Take the Predictive Analytics in the Cloud survey
"Decision Management Solutions, the company of which I am CEO, is running a study on Predictive Analytics in the Cloud with the folks here at SmartData Collective. Both Predictive Analytics and Cloud are hot topics and the intersection has tremendous potential....To find out what you think we have opened a survey and you can take it right now here on SmartData Collective..." [read more]
Data Visualization Best Practices for Business Intelligence
So what happens when data visualization fails to communicate the right information in the right way? [read more]
Ease-of-use Key to Successful Business Intelligence Deployments
Ease-of-use is now the number one Business Intelligence (BI) selection criteria. And with the continued consumerization of BI, its importance will only grow. [read more]
Predictive Analytics World New York City Conference Announces Speaker Line-Up
Predictive Analytics World, the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners, today announced the speaker line-up for the October 17-21, 2011 conference in New York City, New York [read more]
Business Intelligence: Intuitive vs Cool Data Visualization and Infographics
Sex sells. And, although it may seem absurdly out of context, it definitely sells Business Intelligence (BI) software. [read more]
Digital data explosion highlights need for new-age Database and Business Intelligence technologies
The demand for new-generation business analytics solutions – comprising agile BI and analytical database technology that have the capacity to quickly, effectively and cost-efficiently produce actionable intelligence from ‘big data’ – is set to skyrocket. [read more]
Could Beethoven Implement Analytics-based Performance Management?
During Beethoven’s “middle period” of music composition he was attracted to heroes and heroic efforts. This was the time period around 1810 that he composed some of his most popularly recognized pieces. What is common among them is Beethoven’s interest in heroics and champion-like project managers who take on the challenge to implement and integrate EPM’s methodologies? It is these three heroic phases: crisis, struggle, and triumph. [read more]
Business Analytics: My Valentine’s Day True Love Confession
It is Valentine’s Day today. I normally post my blog each Tuesday, but today is an exception. It is April 14. This is a painful blog for me to write because I have a true love confession to make – I have two loves. It involves my relationship with analytics-based enterprise performance management. My Romance Dilemma So what is my... [read more]
Top 10 Reasons Organizations Fail to Achieve Widespread BI User Adoption
To help you avoid the common pitfalls, here are the top ten reasons why organizations fail to achieve widespread user adoption for their BI projects: [read more]
Top 9 signs your BI project isn’t user-friendly
Be vigilant, and watch out for these warning signs that indicate your current BI solution has serious usability flaws and inhibits end-user adoption. [read more]
Mobile Business Intelligence: The Pseudo Revolution
It’s simple. Mobile BI is evolutionary; not revolutionary – it has developed over time. It is a logical response to changing business needs and the emergence of new portable communications technologies. It’s also not revolutionary because it won’t drastically change how most companies use BI. [read more]
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Webinar: Making Sense of Service Organization Audits
When: Tue, 2012-02-14 02:00
Webinar Invite: Making Business Intelligence Faster & Easier
When: Tue, 2012-02-21 15:00
Banish Poor Application Performance: Eliminate Business Disruptions, Increase End User Productivity
When: Wed, 2012-02-22 11:00
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When: Sun, 2012-03-04 08:00
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When: Sun, 2012-03-04 09:00
Text Analytics World Topics & Case Studies – March 6-7, 2012 in San Francisco
When: Tue, 2012-03-06 09:00
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