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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

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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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First Look – Oracle Real-Time Decisions 3.0

June 24, 2009

I got a chance to get an overview of the latest release of Oracle Real-Time Decisions, 3.0. This is the platform for real-time decisions on which various applications (for call center, web etc) are built and sold as part of the Oracle Applications suite.
The vision of this product is to optimize “return on attention” – [...]

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First Look – Lyza

June 10, 2009

I got a chance to see Lyzasoft’s new product in action recently. Lyzasoft aims to provide a desktop product for business people to do analysis that can seamlessly scale up, unlike (say) spreadsheet based analysis. The product is based around a column store.
Workbooks are the core metaphor and these are used to assemble flows. Data [...]

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Users don’t have analytic skills? Try decision management

June 9, 2009

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Last week I posted Use decision management to make systems smarter and I got two interesting comments. Ronald made an excellent point first:
I don’t think the lack of deep analytic tools is the prime reason for BI not being intelligent. In my opinion it’s the lack of education and skills concerning analytical methods [...]

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Use decision management to make systems smarter

June 5, 2009

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Michael Vizard had an interesting post (via @merv) – Making Business Intelligence Applications Smarter in which he began with the great phrase:
One perplexing oxymoron of IT industry is the simple fact that most business intelligence applications are not all that smart
In Smart (Enough) Systems Neil and I argued that the way to make [...]

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Everyone makes decisions – your systems should too

May 19, 2009

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Merv Adrian recently posted on Information Builders Prepares to Ramp It Up and this made me think of webFocus. Like Merv I recently spoke with Michael Corcoran and learned a little more about Information Builder’s attitude to decision making and information.
The webFocus page says “Because Everyone Makes Decisions” and pushing information access and [...]

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Beyond Predictive BI

May 15, 2009

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David Linthicum’s recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going “beyond BI” with decision management. I distinguish between BI and Decision Management because BI helps you understand your business [...]

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Dashboards should do more than raise your blood pressure

April 24, 2009

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This headline came from a briefing I got from LucidEra about their spring release and was so good I just had to use it. Think about it – if all a dashboard does is stress you out and raise your blood pressure by telling you what’s wrong without giving you any help as [...]

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Do not underestimate the need for automation in decision making

April 20, 2009

Tom Davenport wrote a nice piece last year that recently showed up on my radar – 10 Principles of the New Business Intelligence – on HarvardBusiness.org. His first principle was particularly good:
Decisions are the unit of work to which BI initiatives should be applied.
Whether you are just looking to make your reporting and dashboards more [...]

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Business Analytics and IBM

April 15, 2009

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I participated in a panel at IBM’s launch of its new Business Analytics and Optimization service line this week. I wrote a quick post to go with the launch and having attended and heard the IBM folks talk about it and had a chance to talk with some of them I thought a [...]

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From Decision Support to Action Support

April 13, 2009

I often write about the difference between decision support systems and the kind of systems that result from applying decision management – decision management applications. For instance, this post on To Hell with Business Intelligence, try Decision Management and this interview with Dan Power. Last week I came across a great way to describe the [...]

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Another analyst firm (Ventana Research) gets it

April 6, 2009

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It can sometimes be lonely being a proponent of a big new idea like decision management. It is delightful, then, when you find out that you are less alone than you expected. Last week I came across a couple of white papers from Ventana Research – Extending BI to Support Operational Decision Management [...]

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