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BI industry builds tools for itself: Yellowfin CEO

August 11, 2014 by Ted Cuzzillo

Why aren’t the data industry’s tools more widely adopted? Data-industry experts have fretted for years over the estimated 5 percent penetration. Yellowfin CEO Glen Rabie has an explanation.

“We never contextualize applications,” he said at the recent Pacific Northwest BI Summit. “We always talk about the homogenous product. We don’t know the consumer. We don’t tailor.”

We don’t talk about the “who.” Who uses our tools? And how they’re used? The marketing rarely distinguishes one industry from another. In fact, even when you read closely, you can’t find a unique selling proposition.

Perhaps worse, says Glen, the tools don’t accommodate different modes of comprehension.… Read the rest “BI industry builds tools for itself: Yellowfin CEO”

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Glen Rabie, marketing/PR, Pacific Northwest BI Summit, Products, Yellowfin 1 Comment

“Storytelling” comes to the Pacific Northwest BI Summit

August 5, 2014 by Ted Cuzzillo

The Boulder BI Brain Trust founder and leader Claudia Imhoff interviewed me at the recent Pacific Northwest BI Summit. She asked about data storytelling. Listen to it here.

Filed Under: storytelling Tagged With: audio, Claudia Imhoff, Pacific Northwest BI Summit Leave a Comment

My latest in Information Management: “‘Sexy'” Data Science is a Team Sport”

January 6, 2014 by Ted Cuzzillo

The word got out last year: data scientist is the “sexiest job,” a late-2012 declaration by the renowned Tom Davenport of “Competing on Analytics” fame. Trouble is, “sexy” goes bad faster than fish.

“Data scientist,” still fresh, is my word of the year. In 2013, the data analysis industry discovered it, many loved or hated it, but most of all, we repeated it. Google Trends shows the mention of it soaring like the 1990s Dow Jones Industrial Average — and you know what happens next.

Alert as data scientists are to patterns, I wonder if many don’t shudder at the “sexy” label.… Read the rest “My latest in Information Management: “‘Sexy'” Data Science is a Team Sport””

Filed Under: analysis & methods Tagged With: data analysis, Information Management, Jill Dyche, Pacific Northwest BI Summit, Predixion Software, Scott Davis, Simon Arkell, Tom Davenport, trend Leave a Comment

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