BI for Business People

Stitch your information together

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:15:00 -0700

The future is getting brighter for industries and non-tech people. There are numerous examples of complex technologies presented in a simple fashion and easy to use...

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"I'd rather be wrong..."

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:30:00 -0700

The point I've heard a few times is, "I'd rather have a wrong number and work out a way to improve (move forward), than spend hours arguing/debating/analyzing what the right number is."

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BI costs Fortune 500 millions

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:15:00 -0700

I don't normally like to bring bad news up, although the Business Intelligence industry desperately needs a new guiding light. However there is always something to be learned from failures and bad news.

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BI has it all wrong?

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:00:00 -0700

The BI market is showing a flurry of innovation and new companies over the last year or so. Usually stale industries or high customer pain forces new ideas to come to fruition.

BI eclipsed by another technology

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 14:45:00 -0700

After reading an article on BI 2.0 thoughts came to mind that Business Intelligence has essentially become a fancy way to do organizational reporting. Nothing more. BI is simply -- reporting.

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Participate in the first BI sharing network!

Wed, 21 May 2008 22:45:00 -0700

Want to share your ideas about business intelligence and innovation? Want to learn from real people?

Well you can with BI for Business People's own instant Q&A network.

Participate in the BI instant Q&A network...

10 Questions with Simon Tucker and Ron Dimon

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:30:00 -0700

Before the Strategy Maps, metric stop lights, and planning/forecasting models, organizations focus on setting their strategy. Of course the meaning of strategy...

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Really Simple Integration

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:30:00 -0700

Companies are challenged these days. So are individuals. The vast amount of information available and being created every minute is growing so fast how can one leverage that into something meaningful?

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10 Questions for Miriam Tuerk

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:15:00 -0700

It has been said by many, including Gartner and Forrester, that the next big innovation for BI & DW will most likely come from the data warehouse side. Sure Visualization is a hot topic lately but the "pain points" for many clients are on the back-end.

After speaking with Miriam for a few minutes...
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Taming information from the Internet with one website

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:30:00 -0700

The mass amount of information one can spend hours reading, watching, and being entertained is limitless for any individual. Some would consider much of the information found on the Internet as noise.

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You've got questions, they have answers instantly

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 22:00:00 -0700

Instantly may not be much of an exaggeration. One of my questions was answered in 16 seconds. You can ask anything. And they most likely will have an answer!

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Open source gets VC funding

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:00:00 -0700

$12M in a round of Series C funding by Benchmark Capital who has backed other open source companies like Red Hat, Zimbra, and MySQL.

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Microsoft leader in execution

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:45:00 -0700

I'm sure you've heard the Gartner quadrants are out again. The BI vendors are graded and ranked according to Gartner criteria. And as you can expect, vendors want to be high and to the right.

The "Platinum Rule"

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:15:00 -0700

From my Who's Better: Business or IT debate, I received feedback, some strongly opinionated, from people with examples of CIO's as successful sponsors/leaders of BI initiatives. I have several examples myself.

And Frank Buytendijk's rebuttal...

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The SEC side-steps BI

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:15:00 -0700

Could the SEC be side-stepping business intelligence forcing companies to report financial data in an XML standard? Or could this turn into the investor's version of "financial intelligence"?

More about the SEC's reporting standard at BI for Business People...