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July 27, 2006
Informatica mashup
Morgan posts about the deal made between Informatica and Salesforce.com -- bringing DW and SaaS together, or as Morgan says, "data as a service".
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0 to 1 Terabyte in 60 seconds
This isn't your grandparents' harvest-gold kitchen appliance. They say it will give you "two orders of magnitude better price-performance" for analyzing large volumes of data. This is hardware with open source software that...
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July 21, 2006
BI affects so few
Putting BI in the hands of more users is our goal. Rob Ashe says only 20% of users access data through BI.
Now people are in search of better BI by integrating enterprise search capabilities with BI products.
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Rules for corporate reporting
There are a flood of reports being proliferated throughout the organization. Who knows what they are used for. And now the "On-Time Cases" KPI means something different to each department.
Hearing this within your organization? This could be a problem from lack of best practices and governance.
The use of "Content Clusters" for corporate reporting...
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July 19, 2006
Open source is validated by $8M
It is great to receive validation for what you work hard for. Venture capital funding to the tune of $13M over 8 months says there is a serious new competitor in town. This VC funding validates...
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July 18, 2006
The idea of the Long-Tail
"Our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of mainstream products." -- Long Tail 101
The ideas in Chris' new book will be talked about for years. His fresh perspective helps you understand the success stories of companies such as, Amazon, Google, Lego, RealNetworks, Netflix, and iTunes.
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July 17, 2006
Try an interactive BI report card
Why are BI suites compared and graded on someone else's criteria, by someone who doesn't know our company's needs? We should be able to rank BI product suites based on what is important to us. I don't need Language support. Or ad hoc reporting.
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July 11, 2006
Squeezed from all sides
A generic strategy for most companies attempting to increase market share would be to innovate with leading edge services or products and jump ahead of the competition. Not Google. With Google Spreadsheets, they replicate an existing product that has been around for years, Excel, and shune the fact that it was created by the world's largest software maker, Microsoft.
But could this be ingenious.
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July 7, 2006
9 things about BI from Google Trends
Google Trends can provide interesting results, as with Steve Rubel's 25 things in society's psyche post. So here are 9 BI industry trends.
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