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Put a mobile device on your dashboard

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What if you could snap an iPad into your car’s dashboard to let the device listen to your car’s murmurs? Perhaps it could receive its maintenance-alert emails, the ones that let you know when it’s ready for an oil change or new seat covers. If you also kept your calendar on the iPad — and who wouldn’t? — your iPad could schedule a date with the mechanic.

Howard Dresner, the man who revived the term “business intelligence,” is now excited about mobile devices. This fall, he issued a study. And though I have been ambivalent — and who hasn’t been?… Read the rest “Put a mobile device on your dashboard”

Look, Ma. No ETL

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One of the first things you learn about in business intelligence is ETL. Raw data gets harvested, washed and served. But Sandy Steier hadn’t heard.

Sandy had been busy analyzing data. For years on Wall Street, he pored over mortgage-backed securities with a tool he and peers developed for themselves.

He only learned of ETL recently. He’d become acquainted with a data architect with whom he shared a bus ride every day to and from their offices in downtown Manhattan. “I had never really spoken to him before,” Sandy recalls. “He was in a different world even though we both dealt with data.”… Read the rest “Look, Ma. No ETL”

A sweet solution for cherry picking

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Don’t say “cherry picking” to people at information-intensive businesses like banks, airlines, and telecommunications companies. You can spoil their lunch if a big customer has just run off to a competitor.

Mark Albala says he has a tool that will warn of such a move. He’s president of InfoSight Partners, and he’s about to offer a new Twitter and blog sniffer to companies in the upper-midmarket and bigger.

Customers often precede their moves with questions about the competitor. Asking “what do you know about …?” on Twitter could be the first and last hint. Albala’s tool monitors such chatter on social media, industry blogs, and other external sources to know when something’s up.… Read the rest “A sweet solution for cherry picking”