Analytics for the Business

Divisional BI, Not Enterprise BI
Friday, Mar 5, 2010 Mike Beckerle
James Standen titled an article:  "Let's admit it - centralized business intelligence alone just doesn't work" http://www.linkedin.com/news?vi...Read More
8 Customer Analytics to Drive Higher Profits
Wednesday, Oct 21, 2009 Anil Chitkara
Everybody has metrics on their customers and sales. These are typically one dimensional - sales by customer, sales pipeline by stage in the sales...Read More
Lessons from Best-In-Class Service Organizations
Tuesday, Sep 8, 2009 Steve Morandi
Insightful reporting, KPI's and analytics for your service business can have a dramatic impact on services financial performance and customer...Read More
Hidden Benefits of Business Intelligence
Friday, Aug 7, 2009 William Copacino
"I used to spend 30 hours assembling information in spreadsheets to understand and analyze the details of my transportation operations. With my Oco...Read More
Gut Check: Managing Data Proliferation to Create Opportunity
Tuesday, Jul 21, 2009 Steve Morandi
I do not believe anyone would disagree that we live in a time where available information is scaling exponentially both in the consumer and B2B...Read More

BI in the Cloud

The Rise of the Business User, in Absentia
Monday, Apr 26, 2010 Anil Chitkara
Overall, the Gartner Business Intelligence Summit 2010 was a good conference. It was well organized, offered interesting topics, and...Read More
MapReduce Redux
Sunday, Nov 22, 2009 Mike Beckerle
  Lots of discussion online about MapReduce these days. Stephen Swoyer's piece is quite a good one. The confusion about what...Read More
BI Camp
Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 Joseph Schramm
The other day I was driving with my kids and we passed the location of one of the two summer camps they had attended this year.  My son...Read More
BI: Same Old, Same Old. Isn’t There Any Innovation Out There?
Friday, Sep 18, 2009 Anil Chitkara
Earlier this month, I was at a BI conference with two days of presentations by a stream of analysts talking about what was going to happen in the...Read More
Using SaaS BI to Complement Enterprise BI
Tuesday, Aug 25, 2009 Mike Beckerle
Many people think of SaaS BI as ideal for small businesses that can't otherwise justify the investment in BI infrastructure. Yet, those of us in the...Read More