The BI Year in Review
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by Marcus Borba
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) published in December a retrospective called The BI Year in Review. The retrospective, written by Stephen Swoyer, is a well-detailed article about what happened in BI area in 2011.
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Trends in smarter business analytics
by James Taylor
Don Campbell, CTO Of IBM’s Business Intelligence group, spoke about smarter business analytics at the September 2011 Computerworld BI & Analytics Perspectives conference. He sees four focus areas – improving customer understanding, optimizing real-time decisions, better enterprise visibility and improved collaboration--all underpinned by managed, trusted data.
Companies face three big challenges around business analytics:
- A lack of understanding of how to use analytics
- A lack of management bandwidth
- A lack of skills
Companies are also changing how they see analytics, focusing on more advanced and forward-looking analytics and less on management reporting.
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Can companies truly control and police Social Media at the workplace?
by Nari Kannan
Some companies have been trying, but unsuccessfully so, to police the use of social media at work. Does it really work? On the other hand, they do pose some risks to the company if employees use them with or without their permission at work.
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