1st
July
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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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Product News |
24th
April
2009
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
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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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
15th
April
2009
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
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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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining, Decision Management, Optimization |
26th
March
2009
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Madeline Albright gave a great presentation at the SAS Global Forum in Washington DC this week. Several of her bon-mots are in the title but there were many others, some of which are below. Each of them struck me as relevant to readers of this blog:
Facts not Fears
Businesses all too often do things [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Decision Management |
12th
March
2009
Doug Maddox discussed how Chrysler has worked on warranty waste and performance measures to help prevent and eliminate it. In the past, Chrysler had relied on Expense per Unit Repaired to monitor dealers but this was easily manipulated (high cost repairs could be hidden) and it drove adverse behaviors because dealers would refuse to perform [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI |
25th
February
2009
Two articles from me that you might like to check out. First in Oracle’s Journal of Management Excellence 2009 February I have a Guest Commentary on The Overinstrumented Enterprise arguing that companies are investing too heavily in monitoring systems while under-investing in making those same systems manageable. This is similar to the argument I made [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, Decision Management |
7th
January
2009
Tom Davenport had an interesting post for 2009 – The Year Ahead: Make Better Decisions – and it prompted me to highlight a couple of things you should definitely be planning to do in 2009.
Make a list of the key decisions that drive your business
Conduct a decision audit, or hire me to, so you know [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, Business Rules, Data Mining, Decision Management |
2nd
December
2008
Tobin Gilman of Oracle presented on Oracle’s BI Strategy. Oracle views Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence as coming together over time and has a single strategy. They see ERP and CRM as having enabling operational efficiencies by driving a process-centric view across silos. Clearly BPM has completed this transition. Yet management processes – reporting, [...]
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posted by James Taylor in Analytics, BI, Data Mining |
28th
October
2008
I am at the EDM Summit this week and will be blogging live from some of the sessions and posting random thoughts and comments in addition. Despite the difficult market conditions, attendance looks good with a nice full room for the keynote and attendees from 17 countries. This year’s event also has a dozen new [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BPM, Business Rules, Decision Management, Strategy |
5th
August
2008
Steve Cranford of PwC wrote an interesting piece called Bringing Order to Chaos (brought to my attention by Alan over at Tibco) that made me think. Steve’s focus is on the next software suite for enterprises (something he calls an Intelligent Business Performance Platform) consisting of business intelligence, business process and business rules. Reading this [...]
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posted by James Taylor in BI, BPM, Decision Management |