The Business Impact of EPM (a case study)
What difference does Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) make in your business?This is the question Finance, IT, and the business should…
No Long Tail from iTunes
There have been quite a few posts in recent months about analytics involving the Long Tail. For an overview see;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Long_TailPersonally,…
5 Phases of Data Analytics Maturation: Part 2
This post is the 2nd part in a 2 part series. Last time we talked about how organizations use Tribal…
SiSense dashboard competition
Even though I normally don't advertise industry competitions, since I'm one of the judges, I thought I'd share the link…
Detecting the Madoff Effect: Methodology for Fraud in Hedge Funds
As a result of the recent Bernard Madoff fraud scheme, pension funds and corporate finance managers have been put on…
What do I want my Epitaph and Legacy to Be?
Have you ever played around with the self-improvement exercise of writing your own obituary or epitaph? It is intended to…
“Predictive analytics allows your organization to learn from its collective experience and puts this…”
“Predictive analytics allows your organization to learn from its collective experience and puts this knowledge to action. Let’s say, for…
Free BI for Higher Ed
For over five years, Microstrategy has been part of an educational service from Teradata allowing universities free access to an…
11 Parallels Between Architecture and Interface Design
I had a fascinating discussion with my sister-in-law, a real-life professional Architect, about the parallels between her work and the…
5 Phases of Data Analytics Maturation: Part 1
Recently, while meeting with one of our clients, they mentioned their desire to provide their customer's business team with the…
