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The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad

April 27, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network This article is another relating to a discussion on LinkedIn.com. As with my earlier piece, Short-term “Trouble for Big Business Intelligence Vendors” may lead to longer-term advantage, this was posted on the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network group The thread was initiated by Patrick Gray... [read more]

The Apologists

April 7, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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A whole mini industry has recently been created in SAS based on justifying Jim Davis’ comments to the effect that: Business Intelligence is dead, long live Business Analytics. An example is a blog post by Alison Bolen, sascom Editor-in-Chief, entitled: More notes on naming. While such dedication to creating jobs in the current economic... [read more]

A review of “The History of Business Intelligence” by Nic Smith

March 30, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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IntroductionI had been aware of a short film about the history of Business Intelligence flitting its way around the Twitterverse, but had not made the time to take a look myself. That changed when the author, Nic Smith from Microsoft BI Solutions Marketing, contacted me asking my opinion about it. Back in the day I was a regular... [read more]

Neil Raden’s thoughts on Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence

March 30, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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Industry luminary Neil Raden, founder of Hired Brains, has weighed into the ongoing debate about Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence on his Intelligent Enterprise blog. The discussions were spawned by comments made by Jim Davis, Chief Marketing Officer of SAS, at a the recent SAS Global Forum. Neil was in the audience when Jim... [read more]

Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence

March 28, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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 “Business intelligence is an over-used term that has had its day, and business analytics is now the differentiator that will allow customers to better forecast the future especially in this current economic climate.”  Jim Davis  SVP and Chief Marketing Officer, SAS Institute Inc. The above quote is courtesy of an article reported on... [read more]

The specific benefits of business intelligence in Insurance

March 24, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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IntroductionInsurance – specifically Property Casualty Insurance – is the industry that I have worked within for the last twelve years. During this time, I managed teams spanning IT, Finance and Operations. However the successes that I am most proud of have been in the related fields of Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation... [read more]

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

March 23, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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 This post is another that highlights responses I have made on various LinkedIn.com forums. In this case, a news article was posted on the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network group (as ever you need to be a member of LinkedIn.com and the group to view the original thread).The news article itself linked to a piece / podcast on... [read more]

Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea?

March 14, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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IntroductionThe phrase IT outsourcing tends to provoke strong reactions. People either embrace it as a universal panacea capable of addressing any business problem, or recoil in horror at the very sound of it. Just for a change, I am somewhere in the middle; to me it is another tool at the disposal of businesses which can either be used... [read more]

Trends in Business Intelligence

March 9, 2009 by Peter Thomas
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This year, as in every year since the phrase “Business Intelligence” first came to prominence, there have been a rash of predictions about what will happen with the area in 2009. I have linked to and commented on some of these myself on this blog. This article is my take on the area. I should however explain that there is a twist. These... [read more]