BI’s Dirty Secrets – The Unfortunate Domination of Manually-Coded Extracts
Manually-coded extracts are another dirty secret of the BI world. I’ve been seeing them for years, in both large and…
March 2012 Early Indications I: Financial oddities of tech companies
Three data points start this exploration:1) According to Thomson Reuters, Apple is moving the entire S&P 500: "the fourth-quarter earnings…
3 Ways ‘Big Data Analytics’ Will Change Enterprise Performance Management
Success of companies – big or small – will increasingly depend on their ability to capture, analyze and gain insights…
Analytics-based Presidential Campaigns
Let me manage your expectations. This brief blog will not take a political position for any candidate or political party.
We’re Only Saying ‘Au Revoir’ to a Great Sponsor
This is just a short but very loud “thank you” to Teradata for sponsoring SmartDataCollective for three-and-a-half wonderful, fruitful, conversation…
My ‘Data’ Is Hot!
I run regularly and a lot of my runner friends are hugely turned on by personal metrics with GPS enabled…
Top 14 Business Intelligence predictions for 2012
Don’t confuse continuity for laziness. On face value, rehashing events already transpired as ‘predictions’ may create the appearance of lethargy.…
‘Moneyball’ Takes the Next Big Leap
Spying inefficiencies – in markets, business models, business processes such as supply chains and more has been one of the…
The Future of Email is Social
I was recently approached by IBM to me write a white paper discussing the future of email.
