Social Data – Understanding the Context and the Audience
Social data is one of the many new frontiers within the spectrum of Business Intelligence. If you stop and think…
How Consumerization of Data Leads to Quality of Life Improvements
As data and analytics tools become more prevalent and easier for people of all walks of life to access, this…
Stop Mining Data!
In some recent planning and architectural discussions I've become aware of the significant difference between reasoning about data and reasoning…
Game Analytics: Platform Trends, Monetization and Player Value in Social Games
The Game Analytics industry is arguably still in it's infancy. A list of niche analytics vendors for social and mobile games continues to expand, with…
Big Data Fights Crime: The FBI’s Next Generation Identification
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been in the Big Data business since 1999 when it launched the Integrated Automated Fingerprint…
Analytics BS: 3 Questions to Spot It
There’s a lot of junk analytics around. Some analyses look sophisticated, but are simply incorrect. Others may be mathematically correct,…
Disease Management Programs – A Time to Revisit
The Pharma industry landscape has changed dramatically over the last 5+ years. Consider the patent cliff underway; a weak R&D pipeline for…
Top-Down Business Intelligence
“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get…
Some Thoughts on the Levels of Automation of a Decision
A recent post on the IBM Good Decisions Blog – When Should You Automate a Business Decision? contains a list…
Integrated Data Among Top Challenges P&G, Kraft and Others Face in Tapping Gartner’s “The Power of Me”
At first glance, the title of a Gartner research paper released a few days ago can be misleading.
