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June 12, 2013
Hot Technologies of 2013 with Robin Bloor, Rick Sherman and IBM June 19, 4:00 EST The promise of Hadoop can be seen in all kinds of […]
June 6, 2013
DM Radio Thursday June 6, 3:00 PM EST We’ve all heard the selling points of cloud computing: low initial cost, ease of deployment, lack of maintenance concerns. […]
May 29, 2013
When an enterprise selects a BI solution, it should be able to get the combinations of BI functionality that best meets the varied needs of different. Getting exactly […]
May 16, 2013
As I discussed in The Road to Self-Service BI, enterprises need a better understanding of self-service BI so they can avoid the common mistakes often made with it. […]
May 14, 2013
For years vendors and pundits have heralded the age of self-service business intelligence (BI) thanks to the arrival of the latest generation of BI tools. First, they talked […]
May 3, 2013
You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming free TDWI Boston Chapter meeting. All BI and DW professionals are welcome to attend. Please RSVP. When: Thursday, May 9, 2013 […]
April 4, 2013
When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Solutions […]
April 3, 2013
When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Sufficient […]
April 2, 2013
When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: The […]
March 28, 2013
When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Time-to-solution […]
March 27, 2013
When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Data […]
March 26, 2013
So this situation sounds familiar, and you are wondering if you need an analytical sandbox… The goal of an analytical sandbox is to enable business people […]
March 21, 2013
Is your enterprises flooded with a deluge of data about customers, prospects, business processes, suppliers, partners and competitors? Is data coming from traditional internal systems, cloud […]
March 20, 2013
Continuing the discussion on analytical hub design, here’s the second part of my post on the architecture principles. If you missed the first two principles (1. […]
March 18, 2013
An excellent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Big Data, Big Blunders,” discussed five mistakes commonly made by enterprises when initiating their first Big Data projects. The technology […]
March 14, 2013
As I discused the other day in Why you need an analytical hub, enterprises need to spend time looking forward, rather than just backwards at historical […]
March 11, 2013
Enterprises are flooded with a deluge of data about their customers, prospects, business processes, suppliers, partners and competitors. It comes from traditional internal systems, cloud applications, social networking and […]
March 8, 2013
In his article in Big Data, Bob Eve offers this quote from Professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT: “Companies that inject Big Data and […]
November 30, 2012
ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS IN THE BOSTON AREA Dear Boston BI/DW and Analytics Professionals, We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Boston […]
November 21, 2012
We have reached a tipping point sometime in the last few years when analytics is being driven by business people rather than technologists. It has truly become […]
September 27, 2012
A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “Revenge of the Nerds, the Sequel: Silicon Valley Wallflowers Now Hot”, notes that business-tech start-ups were emerging from obscurity and […]
September 19, 2012
The good news is that enterprises have recognized the significant business value of analyzing the surging amount of information and then acting upon that analysis. The bad […]
September 12, 2012
I’ll be attending the TDWI World Conference in Boston, my hometown, next week. The conference theme is Agile BI. As many of you know I am one of […]
September 9, 2012
Tuesday, Sept. 11 @ 4 ET A Novel Approach to the Analytic Sandbox Challenge The Briefing Room with Rick Sherman and Composite Software REGISTER NOW! The analytics development process […]
August 30, 2012
SearchDataManagement recently interviewed me about automated data integration tools versus manual coding: Data integration is often still done by hand, through SQL coding and stored procedures, according […]
August 28, 2012
Tuesday, Aug. 28 @ 4 ET The Changing Face of Analytics: How to Stay Ahead The Briefing Room with Rick Sherman, Robin Bloor and Actian REGISTER NOW! The appetite […]
August 22, 2012
This is the fourth post in my series (“four ways to change our approach to BI development”) on changing our approach to BI development. In order […]
August 20, 2012
This is the third post in my series (“four ways to change our approach to BI development”) on changing our approach to BI development. In order […]
August 16, 2012
This is the second post in my series (“four ways to change our approach to BI development”) on changing our approach to BI development. In order […]
August 15, 2012
I’ll be on DM Radio this Thursday, August 16, 2012, 03:00PM ET. Registration. Here’s what it’s all about: Getting data where it needs to go is […]
August 14, 2012
In a previous blog post, The problems with BI development, I wrote the rut into which many BI implementations have become stuck. In order to break […]
August 8, 2012
There’s no question that data integration technology is a good thing. So why aren’t businesses using it as much as they should be? Data integration software […]
August 7, 2012
BI implementations are stuck in a rut. This rut has short-circuited many small to medium size businesses’ (SMB) new BI initiatives. And, it has thwarted existing […]
July 17, 2012
I am interviewed in the article below by Alan Earls. Eradicating the use of Excel in business intelligence applications turned out to be a pipe dream in […]
July 12, 2012
Rick Sherman will be the featured analyst in this webinar. Rick will discuss the need for enterprises to expand their BI portfolio and enable self-service BI to […]