Posted in trends on May 6th, 2008
I’ve been asking known BI mavens what they make of thoughts by TDWI’s recently departed education director, Dave Wells. I summarized our Q&A a few days ago here
Among those who’ve responded, the consensus is that, as one person put it, “he’s got something there.” They’ll all be watching for it all to develop.
The BI This [...]
Posted in trends on Apr 25th, 2008
TDWI’s just-departed education director Dave Wells wants the BI industry to put better focus on seeing trends in data and not so much on cleaning the data.
I’ve read about an 84-year-old farmer in North Dakota who reads pig spleens the way mainstream fortune tellers read tarot. Sadly, he doesn’t service the business intelligence industry.
Posted in trends on Dec 19th, 2007
No sooner did TDWI’s newsweekly post three views of business intelligence trends and events than the combined text appeared as a tag cloud on Many Eyes.
BI This Week editor Jim Powell had asked me, Stephen Swoyer and Mike Schiff to cough up two lists: events from 2007 and trends we expect in 2008. They gave [...]
Posted in trends on Dec 19th, 2007
Events and Trends: A Conversation About 2007 and 2008 (12/19/2007)
Acquisitions of pure-play BI vendors was the big story, but the meaning will play out in 2008. How will the smaller vendors find a place in the new ecosystem?
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