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Is BI boring yet?

September 24, 2008

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations author Clay Shirky says that a technology’s social effects—substitute “business” effects if you want — usually occur just when a technology has become boring. For example, email. It used to be something we talked about: “Do you have email?” “You mean the Internets?” And so on. [...]

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Agile BI for a chilled economy

September 3, 2008

It’s called “agile BI,” and it goes like this: forget the big meetings, forget the planning, forget the budgeting. Just get someone from IT and someone from business together and make a prototype in a week. Dave Wells, an independent consultant after five and a half years as TDWI education director, reports that clients are [...]

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Dave Wells “is on to something”

May 6, 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 [...]

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99 and 44/100ths pure data

April 25, 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.

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BI predictions out the other end

January 3, 2008

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.

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BI events and trends in a tag cloud

December 19, 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 [...]

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My latest at ‘BI This Week’: ’07 events and ’08 trends

December 19, 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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