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September 29, 2006
Microsoft could cost you more
Good news for some. For the rest, it could take focus and money away from projects and improvements for performance measurement and BI systems.
The IDC study (paid by Microsoft) concluded that Microsoft's new Vista operating system...
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September 20, 2006
BI detects fraud
Some of us are willing to pay anything to have chiropractors fix our necks and backs. Then there are those who scam insurance companies with false claims of injury. I'm assuming this is a big business if you want to be on that side of the law. Fighting back are insurance companies using BI to track down fraudulent claims and unethical chiropractors.
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September 19, 2006
Executive reports on your Blackberry
When you need to check the performance (or under-performance) of a business unit, geographic region, or sales numbers for a department, it is difficult to do this on the road. Shawn writes that Cognos can now do this for your Blackberry.
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September 14, 2006
Where is your pipe dream
Lyndsay Wise writes how "business performance management (BPM) is the next generation of business intelligence". Not so sure this is true when Hyperion...
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Posted by Tom Hudock at 8:45 PM | Comments (0)
September 8, 2006
Unique
There are 44,200,000 Google matches for "Information Management". "Business Intelligence" beats that with 55,600,000, while "Data Warehouse" is far behind with 12,600,000. "Performance Management" is in the middle with 21,600,000 matches.
Are you using these words to describe you or your company?
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