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New research council being launched

September 9, 2011

I am a faculty member for the International Institute for Analytics and we are launching a new research effort – the IT Analytics Research Council. Here’s what the official promotional text says:
The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) uses an experience-based research approach to uncover “what’s working” and more importantly “what’s next” in the area of [...]

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First Look – ParAccel 3.0

November 30, 2010

The folks at ParAccel announced their 3.0 product recently (details on ParAccel 3.0 here). As I haven’t written about them before, some background first. ParAccel is one of the new class of MPP columnar analytic databases designed to address the challenges raised by the vast volumes implied in the phrase “big data”, the increasing complexity [...]

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First Look – Calpont InfiniDB

November 18, 2010

I got my first chance to catch up with Calpont recently. Calpont is a privately held company based in Frisco TX with 25 employees. They have been developing their analytics database technology over the past 2.5 years. InfiniDB Enterprise is the commercial product released in February 2010 and InfiniDB GPL version was launched in October [...]

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The next step to business insight – a video on analytics

November 17, 2010

I recently presented with ParAccel at the IE Group’s Predictive Analytics Summit in San Francisco. My topic was “The next step to business insight” and you can see the slides and video here.

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Speaking at the CIO Network’s Leadership Forum in San Francisco

November 16, 2010

[ December 7, 2010; 9:30 am to 10:30 am. ] I am going to be speaking at the CIO Network’s Leadership Forum in San Francisco. I will be on stage with Bill Lewis, head of BI and analytics at The Gap talking about bringing analytics to bear in operations. The format will be a discussion with questions from the invite-only audience of CIOs. I will [...]

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Why thinking about decisions should be a BI best practice

September 10, 2010

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I was struck today by a short but effective Information Builders PowerPoint – Four Worst and Four Best Practices in Business Intelligence. I really liked the worst practices – especially the one about assuming that business people have the skills or time to learn to use a BI tool. I blogged [...]

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Lyzasoft Update

July 28, 2010

Some weeks back I got an update from Lyzasoft but I have not been able to post it until now. I first wrote about Lyzasoft back in 2009 and since then the company has been busy. The company’s vision remains the same – to create a way for end users to work with BI that [...]

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Speaking at Business Rules Forum 2010

June 30, 2010

[ October 21, 2010; 6:00 am to 7:00 am. ] I am giving a keynote at the Business Rules Forum called “Decisions have 3 Bs”
Business Process, Business Rules, Business Intelligence. Three “B”s that drive IT investment. Often considered separate domains, separate sets of technologies, each B has its own center of excellence, its own methodology, its own experts. But this Balkanization pushes apart technologies that [...]

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A pet peeve about map interfaces

May 5, 2010

As you may know, May 6 is election day in the UK. As I grew up there I have been taking an informed foreigner’s interest in it, mostly through my favorite online newspaper The Guardian. Browsing around the election coverage I came across a page that reminded me why I hate all the map-based interface [...]

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Analytics and IVRs

April 5, 2010

As regular readers know, IVRs are one of my pet peeves. Not because I want them all to have a button for a human but because I want them to be smart. I want them to use what they know about me to tailor the options, to predict what I am likely to do and [...]

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Add BI about and within your business processes #gartnerbpm

March 23, 2010

`Cross-posted to ebizQ
Bill Gassman presented on adding business intelligence about and within your business processes. Bill’s emphasis is on the value of bring Business Intelligence, Business Activity Monitoring and Business Process Management together as well as the challenges of doing so. Bill is using the Large Hadron Collider as an example and talking about the [...]

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BI 2010 – BI Competency Centers

February 24, 2010

Two presenters (Saroj from Standard Bank and Angela from Investec) discussed Business Intelligence Competency Centers to start day 2.
A BICC is a centralized team that captures knowledge, addresses technology, helps manage organizational change and defines common processes for BI across the organization. Repeatability is critical – not having to re-invent things for each new project. [...]

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BI 2010 – Some thoughts on data quality and governance

February 23, 2010

Several sessions this afternoon on data quality and governance. Rather than blogging these separately, here are some thoughts:

Great illustration of data quality problem having a business impact – bad data led a Telco to prepare a large CapEx project to add bandwidth capacity but a physical inspection showed plenty of actual capacity. Bad data had [...]

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BI 2010 – Successfully incorporating geospatial data

February 23, 2010

Melanie du Plessis from the electoral commission was next. The IEC focuses on ensuring that elections are free and fair. One of the key elements of this is a focus on a single national register of voters that everyone appears on once and only once. Divided up the country into voting districts, to one of [...]

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BI 2010 – BI and Performance Management

February 23, 2010

Continuing at BI 2010, Jon Hill spoke on the combination of BI and Performance Management. Jon reiterated the constantly changing environment and the tendency of companies to spend large amounts of money on data infrastructure without thinking through the way this investment will make a difference. In one extreme example he had seen one company [...]

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KPI framework for a competitive edge

November 12, 2009

I am hosting a panel on Predictive Analytics at the Business Analytics Summit and I got a chance to attend a session beforehand where Dave Stodder presented on performance management and Key Performance Indicators.
Dave began by emphasizing that performance management is both a business and IT issue and that it needs to [...]

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New BeyeNetwork Radio Show

November 10, 2009

Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
I participated in BeyeNetwork’s Radio Show this morning and we had some interesting discussions around analytics and in-memory analytics. Check out the recording of our discussion on business analytics, in-memory databases and the BI maturity curve: http://www.b-eye-network.com/listen/12070

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The Evolution and Future of Business Intelligence

September 29, 2009

Rob Walker of Chordiant wrote a nice little piece for Information Management recently – The Evolution and Future of Business Intelligence.

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New article contrasting decision management and various other topics

September 1, 2009

One of the most useful ways to define an approach is to contrast it with other established approaches. Decision Management is often compared with various kinds of Business Intelligence and with Business Process Management. And because Decision Management uses Business Rules and Data Mining or Business Analytics, it is also compared with these approaches individually. [...]

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First Look – IBM and SPSS

July 1, 2009

I got a chance to catch up with the folks from IBM/Cognos to discuss their (fairly) recent announcement of a formal OEM relationship with SPSS for PASW Statistics (briefly reviewed here). I discussed their original, less formal, partnership previously. IBM Cognos has a long alliance history with SPSS, often working with them to co-sell into [...]

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