More than just “The Usual Suspects” – Doing Due Diligence for DW and BI Tools
The publishing of Gartner’s Magic Quadrants or Forrester’s Waves is eagerly awaited by vendors in many IT categories, particularly those…
Know Me and Be Relevant: What I learned from Disney’s Keynote at NCDM
NCDM 2008 RECAP: Know me and be relevant is just a starting point!From its earliest days, relevance has been the goal for…
Listening to the Many Voices
Yesterday, I was invited to attend a Regional White House Forum on Health Reform in Greensboro, NC. This was the…
A review of “The History of Business Intelligence” by Nic Smith
IntroductionI had been aware of a short film about the history of Business Intelligence flitting its way around the Twitterverse,…
Neil Raden’s thoughts on Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence
Industry luminary Neil Raden, founder of Hired Brains, has weighed into the ongoing debate about Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence…
Irony and WordPress.com advertising
After the response that I posted yesterday to comments by Jim Davis, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at SAS Institute,…
BI Giant has Clay Feet
Jean-Michel Franco opens his Information Management's March 2009 Special Report by pointing out a problem with today's corporate BI usage:…
Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence
“Business intelligence is an over-used term that has had its day, and business analytics is now the differentiator that…
Podcast Available
For those that might be interested, Glen de Vries at Medidata and I recorded a podcast for BioIT World magazine…
Ben Goertzel’s Report on AGI-09: The Second Conference on…
Ben Goertzel’s Report on AGI-09: The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, March 6-9, Arlington Virginia, USA (via The Future…