sid adelman

Insomnia, cure

January 27, 2009

Sid Adelman tells me that years ago he let his then-brother-in-law, an insomniac, read a chapter of his book on data warehousing. The guy fell asleep.

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Don’t blame the BI tools

August 20, 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 [...]

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