The Business Intelligence Guide

Looking to boost your perspective on BI or dig deeper into the latest hot topics in business intelligence, then take a look at the agenda for the upcoming TDWI BI Executive Summit in San Diego, August 16-18th 2010. The theme for this years summit is Agility, Alignment and Analytics, covering hot topics including: Agile BI Text analytics Analytic databases Distributed [...]
07/08/2010

I always look forward to the reports on BI from the Aberdeen Group to get a global perspective of how BI projects are being deployed and how well users are engaging with BI tools. The latest April 2010 report focused on TCO, in particular the cost per BI user. According to the report, during the previous [...]
06/30/2010

Four open-source and proprietary vendors have forged a new partnership resulting in a cloud-based BI stack. Jaspersoft - open-source BI Talend -  data-integration Vertica - analytics database RightScale - management software for cloud-based application deployments Whilst the contractual relationship between the vendors may be tight, unfortunately the same cannot be said for customers. Customers need to form contractual agreements with [...]
06/16/2010

I am really excited to announce the release of two new additions to the TLO Management Insight Series: Leading With SPI Getting to Cloud Leading with SPI – Driving Productivity and Profit using Strategic Performance Improvement Leading with SPI provides a detailed, step-by-step guide to driving better strategic definition and more effective and efficient strategic execution. [...]
03/19/2010

There is much debate over exactly what analytics is. A major proportion of this debate is purely semantics, as technical persons struggle to relate technology in business terms. In reality, the business doesn’t really care what it is called – they care about what it does. Analytics goes beyond traditional reporting and data mining – [...]
03/12/2010