James Taylor's Decision Management: Business Intelligence Archives

Beyond Predictive BI

By James Taylor on May 14, 2009 8:43 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

David Linthicum's recent blog post Approaching Predictive BI made me want to reiterate some of my thinking around BI (on which I have a whole category) on my blog. I often talk about going "beyond BI" with decision management.... Read More..

Categories: Decision Management, Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics

Do the reports you generate prompt action?

By James Taylor on March 26, 2009 8:29 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

A post over on the Walker Information Blog - Reports that prompt action made me think about the number of useless reports I see. Their focus was on voice of the customer or other customer information reports but it made... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Business Rules, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

Business Intelligence or Business Analytics?

By James Taylor on March 24, 2009 2:23 AM 4 Vote 0 Votes

At the SAS Global Forum this week some SAS speakers drew a distinction between Business Intelligence - BI - and Business Analytics. This distinction between Business Intelligence (what everyone else does) and Business Analytics (what SAS does) struck me as... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence

When the customer knocks you need decision management not operational BI

By James Taylor on March 10, 2009 11:09 AM 0 Vote 0 Votes

A friend passed on an article titled "When the customer knocks" in which Scott Arnett of Pitney Bowes discussed the power of data to improve customer interactions. Nothing there to cause me to blog you would think. Except that Scott,... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

The future of Data Warehouses

By James Taylor on December 9, 2008 8:14 PM 0 Vote 0 Votes

An article caught my eye in the Teradata Magazine this month - Steve Brobst, CTO of Teradata, outlined 4 areas he thinks will drive data warehousing: Sensor Technology Pervasive BI In Database AnalyticsNon-Traditional Data Types I don't disagree with Steve... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Decision Management

The Future of Business Technology Part 3 - Business Intelligence

By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 1:45 PM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes

"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to BT (Business Technology) we're going to have more disasters like our present mortgage meltdown. Why? Because IT creates impenetrable systems that human beings can't manage. BT is about human beings back... Read More..

Categories: Business Activity Monitoring, Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

The Future of Business Technology Part 1 - Business Control

By James Taylor on November 18, 2008 8:14 AM 0 1 Vote 0 Votes

David Chassells had an interesting article last week called BPM and SOA: Where IT Is Going if Real People Take It There In which he quotes George Colony (founder of Forrester Research):"If we don't get from IT (Information Technology) to... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Business Process Management, Business Rules, Decision Management, SOA

In an uncertain economy, think analytics not BI

By James Taylor on November 11, 2008 8:05 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Tony Scott, Microsoft Chief Information Officer,was interviewed last week in The Role of Technology in an Uncertain Economy. It was an interesting interview in which he made a couple of comments about business intelligence.Software innovations are providing new ways to... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Decision Management, Predictive Analytics

Business Intelligence and Operations Research

By James Taylor on October 16, 2008 2:17 PM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Some time ago Seth Grimes interviewed me as par of his research on a paper called What You Can Learn From Operations Research that Information Week has just made available. It's a nice overview and worth a read. In it... Read More..

Categories: Business Intelligence, Predictive Analytics

Dashboard humor

By James Taylor on October 14, 2008 7:14 AM 1 Vote 0 Votes

Tony had a great post on dashboards that I just had to share! I loved the point about people making decisions based not on data but on company politics. This kind of thing is what Ian Ayres considers in Super... Read More..