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Tools and those who enable their misuse

February 1, 2010 by Ted Cuzzillo

To get a data architect I know worked up, just ask him about how customers end up buying the wrong tools.

How about sales people who push federation tools on those who actually need data warehouses?

“It all sounds extremely sexy,” says my source, who works for a major business intelligence vendor and whom I can’t identify. “You have a lot of people who exaggerate their ability to combine data to provide business solutions. … They don’t prototype, they don’t profile, they don’t actually think about the problem or do testing or even send some high school data analyst out with Excel to put something together that [the customer] might want.… Read the rest “Tools and those who enable their misuse”

Filed Under: management Tagged With: customers, data warehouses, las vegas, Mark Madsen, marketing, marketing/PR, tdwi, tools 3 Comments

Recession reactions: hunkerers and builders

June 11, 2009 by Ted Cuzzillo

There are the hunkerers and the builders. Those are the two basic reactions to the recession that Jill Dychè observes. She’s a principal down at Baseline Consulting, and she reports seeing more builders.

The hunkerers “are using the economy as an excuse for a fair bit of inertia,” she emails. But the builders are using “the temporary lull” to ready themselves for the recovery. “Strategy” comes up a lot more these days.

One type of builder is revisiting infrastructure. For example, some want to re-platform their data warehouses, and others want to acquire master data management hubs. “When things get really busy again, they’re positioned to be out in front.”… Read the rest “Recession reactions: hunkerers and builders”

Filed Under: BI industry Tagged With: Baseline Consulting, data management, data warehouses, Jill Dyche, recession Leave a Comment

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