May 2010

Business Intelligence - May 2010: The Impossible, the Unknown, and Secrets

What to do when a developer tells you “that’s impossible”
by Laura (Brandau) Brandenburg

We have all been here. You’ve defined just the right feature or solution to solve a specific business problem. It’s elegant. It’s simple. It’s even got a hint of beauty about it. When you get ready to present it to your technical team for implementation, you get the answer you least expect…”that’s impossible” or its close equivalent “that will take us months” (when the budget is weeks). As the business analyst, what can you do?
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The Business Intelligence Chronicles:
What They Don't Teach You At Any Business School?
by Deepak Seth

What didn't they teach you in Business School? The answer is "Business Intelligence."

By that I do not mean the oxymoron phrase - given the state of the economy today and what actions led it there many people think that the words Intelligence and Business cannot be put in the same sentence together.
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The Top Seven Secrets to Business Intelligence
by Marcus Borba

Search Data Management published an article, written by Justin Aucoin, commenting about the Cindi Howson's keynote speech at the 2009 TDWI World Conference in Orlando. In the presentation, Cindi advises on the top seven secrets to successful BI deployments...
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