IBM Shakes Up Its Software Group 13 Jan 2010 at 10:51am Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP, has issued an internal memo announcing a significant split of the software group into a solutions and a middleware division. The shake up includes some very senior execu...
Where Did The Term BI Come From? 30 Mar 2009 at 1:51pm I just watched a cute video by Nic Smith on the history of Business Intelligence. Granted it was a shill for Microsoft but still it was cute and mostly accurate. However, there was one erroneous at...
Easy To Use? Nah. We Need BI That Is Easy To Consume! 19 Feb 2009 at 8:30am For my entire career in BI and data warehousing (going on more than 20 years now), I have heard the expression -- BI should be "easy to use". I suggest that it is time for BI's tag line to change t...
Deplorable, Despicable, and Disgusting 26 Jan 2009 at 10:00am OK -- I have had a whole weekend to simmer down about John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, and his behavior. But it just kept getting worse and this morning, I have just had enough.
Our Christmas Tree is a Personal Data Warehouse 23 Dec 2008 at 1:54pm We decorated our Christmas tree last weekend -- and I realized that the decorations were snapshots of our family history -- basically our personal data warehouse. Certainly our tree will never make...
Something Rotten in Apple? Judge Seems to Think So. 10 Nov 2008 at 2:26pm Must be nice to wanted -- at least Mark Papermaster must be feeling the -- um -- love from his former and current employers. A federal judge ordered the former IBM executive recently hired by Apple...
Green IT? It is more than just reducing power consumption 31 Oct 2008 at 12:47pm I attended a breakfast forum this morning sponsored be Vista Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm here in Boulder, CO. The speaker was Ike Nassi, EVP for SAP Research. During his talk, Ike...
Summer was GREAT... But it's time to return to the blog 29 Sep 2008 at 2:56pm Yep -- it's true. I took the summer off from blogging but now I'm baaaack! And what a time to come back. Dow down 777 points today. Banks and other financial institutions going under right and left...
First Steps in Operational BI 31 May 2008 at 3:54pm Operational BI is becoming quite the buzz today. There are countless articles, tips, vendors with operational BI offerings, case studies, etc., available today. Yet, I still get asked the very basi...
Free KPIs! No Fooling... 1 Apr 2008 at 2:41pm If you are struggling to define your company's key performance indicators (KPIs), here is a useful bit of information. I recently discovered an interesting website dedicated to identifying KPIs for...
Excess... 2 Mar 2008 at 9:19am Every now and then, I use my blog for something that has nothing to do with BI. Sometimes I use it for humor, sometimes a rant against a pet peeve, and sometimes -- like this time -- for something...
There's Money in Them Thar Companies - BI & MDM Funding! 23 Jan 2008 at 1:31pm Given the harrowing day in the world's stock markets yesterday and today's roller coaster ride in US markets, you would think that venture funding for start-ups and small companies would dry up lik...
Last Hurrah for Bill Gates 8 Jan 2008 at 12:59pm Last week, Bill Gates gave what was billed as his last keynote as a full-time Microsoft employee at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. He chose not to do a maudlin look backw...
It's Been a Most Interesting Year 27 Dec 2007 at 7:02am For my last blog of the year, I want to wish each of you Happy New Year! The year, 2008, promises to be as good a year for Business Intelligence as 20007 was...
The Other Shoe Finally Drops - IBM Buys Cognos 12 Nov 2007 at 7:11am A few minutes ago I got the news that IBM had just bought Cognos. There has been so much speculation about this purchase after Hyperion and Business Objects were bought that it almost was anti-clim...
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