New Frontiers in Business Intelligence

Recently, we have all become familiar with Store Receipts printing out an invitation to a phone or online survey regarding your store experience. They offer a chance to be included in a draw for a $25 Amazon.com Gift Certificate or... Read More..

Geotime is a cool technology from research and now into products from a company called Oculus. It allows you to combine the three major ingredients of most Business Intelligence data collection and analysis - Data, Time and Geography! Here's an... Read More..

Heat Maps are an excellent Business Intelligence Visualization Tool. Here is an example courtesy of LogiXML, one of the BI Visualization Vendors:   One of the classic examples of Heat Maps is the use in SmartMoney.com, Map of the Market.... Read More..

So far, Business Intelligence has been mired in questions of data collection, data cleansing and just storing the d**g data somewhere, anywhere. Meanwhile, ask any serious user of Business Intelligence, 9 times out of 10 they may come back with... Read More..

Here are my top 10 predictions for 2010! Like all predictions I expect pnly about half of them may pan out. We imagine things to change at a rate faster than it actually happens, as usual! 10. Business Intelligence tools... Read More..

With larger, cheaper memories, faster, cheaper processors, Business Intelligence, particularly, Data Visualization is going to take a whole new shape! Finally all those numbers and letters stored in huge multi-dimensional data warehouses can be looked at and some sense made... Read More..

For the nth time I stepped out of a business meeting with an Analytics Service provider in India. These days they are doing roaring business and expanding a lot! When Corporate types talk about objections to having corporate data in... Read More..

Chinese Handcuffs or the Chinese Finger Traps are classic analogies on what happens to IT security in large companies and how to eventually navigate them internally! These Chinese Handcuffs defy your natural inclination to pull harder once your fingers are... Read More..

Fellow blogger Brenda Michelson brings up Peter Drucker's very useful observations about how companies routinely Feed Problems with assigning their best people to them while opportunities go begging!. How timely and how relevant to Business Intelligence these observations are! Many... Read More..

David Linthicum's weekly question in the forum was the one that inspired this post. When all you have are transactions, there is no "Business Intelligence". But when you have abstracted Business Intelligence, many users want to drilldown into its constituent... Read More..