Tag: information technology

The scope of IT’s responsibility when businesses go bad

Chief Information Officer (CIO) Network This article is another relating to a…

Peter James Thomas
12 Min Read

The Register’s take on Microsoft and Oracle / Sun

Today I read an article on The Register by Gavin Clarke. This…

Recipes for success?

I should acknowledge that I am indebted to a conversation that I…

Peter James Thomas
14 Min Read

Combinatorics

Some of the furore following on from the announcement of the proposed…

Mergers and value

Today’s big news is of course that Oracle and Sun Microsystems “have…

The dictatorship of the analysts

Lest it be thought that I am wholly obsessed by the Business…

Peter James Thomas
13 Min Read

The Apologists

A whole mini industry has recently been created in SAS based on…

Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence

  “Business intelligence is an over-used term that has had its day,…

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
16 Min Read