Tag: bi

Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a…

JamesTaylor
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Tactical Meandering

  tactics /táktiks/ n.pl. 2 a the plans and means adopted in carrying…

The specific benefits of business intelligence in Insurance

IntroductionInsurance – specifically Property Casualty Insurance – is the industry that I…

Peter James Thomas
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Short-term “Trouble for Big Business Intelligence Vendors” may lead to longer-term advantage

 This post is another that highlights responses I have made on various…

Would IBM buying Sun impact the decision management market? Nope.

As my twitter feed starting warming up with thoughts on IBM and…

JamesTaylor
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A more appropriate metaphor for business intelligence projects

A traditional metaphor for IT projectsIT people are familiar with a number…

Peter James Thomas
10 Min Read

Business Intelligence and The Heisenberg Principle

The Heisenberg Principle states that for certain things accuracy and certainty in…

Editor SDC
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Big BI, meet Big Ag

Swap out a few terms in a recent New York Times story…

TedCuzzillo
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Is outsourcing business intelligence a good idea?

IntroductionThe phrase IT outsourcing tends to provoke strong reactions. People either embrace…

Peter James Thomas
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“Gartner sees a big discrepancy between BI expectations and realities” – Intelligent Enterprise

 Doug Henschen at Intelligent Enterprise reports from the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit…

Peter James Thomas
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