Where Idiots Get Their Data: Other Idiots (Don’t Let it Happen in Your Company)
Bad data and bad conclusions are the scourge of “the internets” — don’t let it happen in your company, too.
Challenging Stonebraker’s Assertions On Data Warehouses – Part 1
I have tremendous respect for Michael Stonebraker. He is an apt visionary. What I like the most about him is his drive and passion to commercialize the academic concepts. ACM recently published his article “My Top 10 Assertions About Data Warehouses….
The Future Of BI In The Cloud
Actual numbers vary based on whom you ask, but the general consensus is that the Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics in the cloud is a fast growing market. IDC expects a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 22.4% through 2013. This growth is pr…
What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
A World-Class BI program is one that changes the information culture of the organization. Here are five steps to help get you there.
IDC Business Intelligence Roadshow in Prague
Recap of the IDC BI Roadshow session in Prague, the Czech Republic, including some interesting BI data nuggets
Can Marketo Give Marketers Some Cred?
Some of the EI’s took a briefing today from Jon Miller, Co-founder and VP of Marketing for Marketo. Jon briefed us on their new product – Revenue Cycle Explorer, which purports to be able to accurately analyze ROMI – your…
ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference 2010 Keynotes
What do horse-drawn buses and 5,000 tons of manure have to do with Business Intelligence and Innovation?
Business Intelligence in Lisbon: IT Operations Dashboards
Business Intelligence Conference day in Lisbon, Portugal, with a great example of dashboards for IT operations.
Business Intelligence Iceland: Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik
Download my Business Intelligence Presentations from the Skyrr Fall Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland
Sailing Analytics for the SAP 5O5 World Championship
(Editor’s note: we tend to select posts from our Guest Bloggers that don’t focus on their own companies’ products. But Timo is an exception… he always finds ways of showing, that Enterprise Software can be sexy , after all. Of course it helps if your billionaire Founder is a sailing enthusiast:-) ) In business, we [...]
New Augmented Corporate Reality BI Prototype
Based on a blog post and proof-of-concept application earlier this year, I have been championing a SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center project to build an “augmented corporate reality” prototype. The idea stemmed from one of the key themes of my BI future directions presentations: that for the first time in centuries, new technology comes from the [...]
Three Reasons Ideas Are Killer Social Objects for Enterprise 2.0
Social objects. Familiar with that term? If you’re steeped in social media and Enterprise 2.0, you probably are. If not, here’s a good description by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb: Social objects are objects that connect people with shared interests. Social objects are the core of any social software. They define the experience, the basis for [...]
RoamBI – Beautiful Mobile BI for the iPad
RoamBI for iPhone, which I reviewed last year, has long been the best-looking mobile BI application available in the market. Now the folks at RoamBI have been one of the very first vendors worldwide to come out with an updated application for the iPad, and they provided me with one in order to test their [...]
SAP Video: Real-time Computing
Cool video by SAP, promoting the concept of in-memory computing. If only their UI was as cute as their videos
Sonoa Helps Developers Speed Up Mobile Applications
In March 2009, I profiled a cloud based company called Sonoa Systems who were helping SaaS providers with analytics, security and compliance. I was very impressed with what they are doing and kept a tab on their progress. Sonoa Systems is uniquely positioning itself to help enterprises and SaaS providers with analytics, performance, security, compliance and regulations etc.. [...]
