February 2010

Business Intelligence: February 2010

Some thoughts on advanced analytics in 2010
Syndicated from BeyeNetwork
by James Taylor

James Kobielus had a nice list of Advanced Analytics Predictions For 2010 over on the Forrester blog. As usual James is thought provoking with some interesting predictions. Let’s start with the one’s with which I agree most strongly.
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The Business Intelligence Chronicles Part 2: Flexible is Flexible, Fixed is Fixed, and Never the Twain Shall Meet
by Deepak Seth

This month we are pleased to continue the Business Intelligence Chronicles by Deepak Seth. The first chronicle was featured in November and received rave reviews. Deepak is an accomplished professional in the world of business process and technology, helping companies establish effective strategy & frameworks. We hope you enjoy the series in the months to come.

With apologies to Rudyard Kipling "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"

The biggest wow factor for OLAP based BI applications has been the flexibility for the end users - slice and dice, drill up and down, build reports on the fly. The techies were the first to be floored. And next came the Analyst types. My Finance users loved the first Financial Insight we came out with. Adopted the same approach for a Sales Insight and the response was mixed. Lot of positive as well as negative feedback....
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Most Annoying Business Words of the Year
by Tim Elliot

Jonathan Becher recently posted the results of research conducted by Accountemps (”WHAT’S THE BUZZ? Survey Reveals Most Overused Workplace Terms”) where 150 senior executives from the nation’s 1000 largest companies were asked...
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