Dear IT: A Letter from Your Business Users
In which Jill writes a rebuttal letter on behalf of her business clients. photo by aflcio2008In my last blog post…
Stephen Wolfram discusses Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Knowledge Engine
Recently on dm-discuss there was a posting about the Wolfram|Alpha technology, currently in development, which is a Computational Knowledge Engine.…
Google Takes Another Step into BI
Google is now making it easy to analyze public data sources. You put in a term like “unemployment rate California”,…
The Retail Data Nightmare: Coming to a Store Near You!
Not too long ago, I visited a retail store to purchase numerous items. Now this is no small local store:…
Advisory Bored: The Data Model of Dorian Gray
Corey Smith, an IS manager, has a great post about age, experience, and keeping data management relevant to all generations…
Invest in your Online Program
Thanks to all who joined our Service in Action call last Friday that detailed our Annual Panel of Peers; I…
Sneak Preview of BI at TechEd 2009
Watch an interview with Donald Farmer which gives a sneak preview of some of the things that will be presented at…
Use the Force – A Brief Guide to Use Case Complexity
In Chapter 1 of Alistair Cockburn’s “Writing Effective Use Cases,” which I have to believe is the book most often…
“Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? – ERP” – Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com
This is my second article in response to pieces by Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com (you can read the first one…
#7: Here’s a thought…
An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:First, the decisionThe first…
