First Look – SAS In-Database Analytics
SAS has been rolling out its in-database and in-warehouse analytics over the last few months and I thought it was…
Special automotive track at the Enterprise Intelligence Summit
There will be a special automotive track at the Teradata Enterprise Intelligence Summit in Berlin: Representatives from Daimler and component…
Seven Ways to Rejuvenate Your Marketing Database
A visit to so many marketers shows people poring over paper reports, having meetings about the validity of the reports,…
Persuasion in simple terms
Partly to give the Berlin conference with its very informative sessions and presentations a lighter note, partly because we are…
From Home to Social: The Evolution of Your Customer Data
Here’s how it goes down. An executive decides that his company needs a “social media strategy.” Along the way someone,…
Lost Weekend: Troubleshooting a MySQL Installation
Spurred on by Blogger's decision to stop supporting FTP for publishing blogs, I have finally started the long process to…
Use of Technology – My thought process on this one is a bit left field I know but… Part2
An update on my original blog discussing the issue of how to best leverage technology to gain advantage – I…
The Social Media Evolution is an incredible opportunity: but needs business management’s understanding of why and how!
The recent explosion of the numbers of users on social networks and using social media has proven to the business…
Staring at the Lights: Your Data Warehouse Isn’t a Commodity
There are far too many data warehouse development teams solely focused on loading data. They’ve completely lost sight of their…
The influence of open source on general BI
Until recently, open source solutions were most popular within various developer communities but remained on the fringe of general business…