Posted in BI industry on Oct 31st, 2008
Evidence came in yesterday afternoon that, so far, BI is doing well in the new economy. Greg Turman, director of sales for the Western Region at Corda, phoned to say, “I’m going through the roof,” by which he means sales are good. “I’m seeing tremendous startup activity. People are saying, ‘I can no longer guess. [...]
Posted in BI industry, in media on Oct 30th, 2008
In defense of the lively, Mark Madsen observes the nature of resistance to open source BI tools. An excerpt:
Overcoming someone’s resistance to open source in your organization means that you probably need to educate them, given that they use open source every day without thinking about it. It’s in everything from cars to cell phones, [...]
Posted in BI industry on Oct 23rd, 2008
A recession would benefit business intelligence, say two industry experts I talked to last week.
Posted in BI industry on Oct 16th, 2008
Last January, I surveyed BI consultants to see what the season’s recession was doing to BI. Things were going fine, most reported. This week I’m following up with them on the Panic of ‘08.
Posted in BI industry, Sustainability on Oct 2nd, 2008
Oracle OpenWorld’s strong theme of sustainability made me wonder if I might find something green on the exhibit floor. I went to the usual BI vendors and asked about aiming BI tools at carbon footprints.
Posted in BI industry on Aug 20th, 2008
I’ve heard some BI leaders this week complain of stalled innovation by the vendors. But Sid Adelman says, “I think the tools are fine… We’ve handed a Stradivarius to a kid after a couple of lessons and we wonder why the violin doesn’t sound so good.”
We’ve done a “shitty job” of the basics, he says. [...]
Posted in BI industry on Aug 19th, 2008
Two BI leaders walk into the Sunday night reception at the TDWI conference in San Diego. Each is as eminent as you get in BI, and they hadn’t seen each other in months. After hello, they got into what’s more important to them than the free food. One says, “Business Objects and Cognos just don’t [...]
Posted in BI industry on Jan 27th, 2008
If this year’s economic slowdown lets BI-ready companies “kill the competition,” as one consultant I talked to last week expects them to, BI itself will win in not-so-obvious ways.
First, if BI really does show its stuff, projects will attract and keep good people more easily. “Every BI client have been people-short,” says Sid Adelman, “either [...]
Posted in BI industry on Jan 25th, 2008
BI was made for turbulent times, wasn’t it? At least the handful of consultants I talked to this week think so. There seems to be not a shred of fear among them. I’m writing the story for TDWI.
Posted in BI industry, in media on Dec 5th, 2007
My article in today’s BI This Week. BI veterans give tech workers advice on getting ahead in the industry without burning out first.