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 Uncategorized, marketing/PR on May 12th, 2008
So many ezines, so many pitches, so much color, so much urgency, so much of so much. And then along comes—let me check the name—yes, Gordon Daly with a little ezine that’s nothing but a short letter (look it up: letter!) and I actually read it.
Posted in culture on May 9th, 2008
At 8 o’clock Monday morning, a few hundred attendees at TDWI conference in Chicago will hear the organization’s former education director Dave Wells give his keynote, “People First: Creating a Business Intelligence Culture.” He’ll say something startling: there’s much more to BI than data.
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Posted in systems on Mar 11th, 2008
Why did New York governor Eliot Spitzer ever pay more than $100 for a call girl? That’s what scientists at a state-funded research lab freaked out about when the news broke yesterday. To them the scandal was that the rest of the money could have gone to science.
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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 events on Nov 27th, 2007
My latest for TDWI’s online newsweekly, BI This Week, appeared tonight.
Analysis: Predictive Analytics and Oracle OpenWorld
Predictive analytics seemed to sit it out at the recent Oracle OpenWorld, except for one recent Oracle acquisition.
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Posted in visualization on Nov 21st, 2007
I attended the IEEE InfoVIS 2007 conference in Sacramento, held October 28-30, and wrote about it for TDWI: “Visualization: Just Look What’s Coming.”
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