http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/ Nari Kannan's blog explores how new approaches to business intelligence can help organizations improve the performance of business processes--whether these processes are creative or operational, internally-focused or customer-facing, intra-departmental or across functions. en Copyright 2012 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:36:19 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss As anyone who has run a small business will tell you, the secret to success is managing cash and managing it well! But how do you get to good cash management? Greg Crabtree writes about these secrets in a... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/12/keeping_the_numbers_simple_and.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/12/keeping_the_numbers_simple_and.php Big Data Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:36:19 +0000 nkannan   A systematic approach to creativity? It might just work! Doesn't that sound like an oxymoron? Alicia Arnold has me convinced, though! Having sat in countless meetings where we were supposed to brainstorm and come up with creative solutions,... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/11/a_systematic_approach_to_creat.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/11/a_systematic_approach_to_creat.php Consumer Intelligence Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:18:07 +0000 nkannan I had a very interesting conversation with Paul Shoemaker, CEO of American Hospital Directory (also known as ahd.com). AHD is in the business of collecting, updating and making available financial performance, quality and cost data about hospitals in the U.S.... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/11/hospital_intelligence_-_useful.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/11/hospital_intelligence_-_useful.php Business Intelligence Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:23:37 +0000 nkannan Some time ago, I wrote about the utility, flexibility and versatility of the R Language and R Analytics:  Leveraging Language, Cluster and the Cloud for Analytics.Today at the OpenWorld Conference, Oracle announced that it is bundling hardware, software and a... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/10/oracle_ropes_in_r_analytics_in.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/10/oracle_ropes_in_r_analytics_in.php Big Data Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:22:33 +0000 nkannan How often have you been on projects that you know are trainwrecks on Day 1 of the project? Me, too. Way too many times to count.                              ... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/09/stopping_trainwrecks_you_know.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/09/stopping_trainwrecks_you_know.php Agile Development Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:29:34 +0000 nkannan Yes. I mean Excel spreadsheets! That's the dirty little secret of many companies and organizations. They may have terabytes of warehouse data, tons of reports already in production and tons more in the making. Scratch the surface and you will... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/08/how_to_use_the_most_popular_bi.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/08/how_to_use_the_most_popular_bi.php Business Datawarehousing Fri, 26 Aug 2011 19:27:35 +0000 nkannan I had the great opportunity a few days ago to learn about a fabulous open source programming language called R and a company called Revolution Analytics that helps you build, on top of R, many easy-to-use statistical analysis models and... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/08/leveraging_language_cluster_an.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/08/leveraging_language_cluster_an.php Business Intelligence Wed, 10 Aug 2011 16:33:46 +0000 nkannan A few days ago I wrote another entry in this blog: Mobile Business Intelligence--Opportunities, Challenges & Solutions. I suggested that HTML5 may be a good option to pursue since you do not need to do one app each for each... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/07/mobile_business_intelligence_-_1.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/07/mobile_business_intelligence_-_1.php Business Intelligence Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:19:09 +0000 nkannan The promise of mobile business intelligence has been talked about for some time.Many companies are beginning to implement BYOM policies: Bring Your Own Mobile.There are a number of opportunities, challenges and also solutions. The opportunities are plenty. CXO-level people on the... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/07/mobile_business_intelligence_-.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/07/mobile_business_intelligence_-.php Business Intelligence Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:36:36 +0000 nkannan I ran across a very interesting company a few days back and it had some interesting ways of showing where the skills you need are located.I talked to Jeff Leventhal, CEO of Work Market, an integrated hosted portal that is... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/07/new_ways_to_visualize_and_use.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/07/new_ways_to_visualize_and_use.php Business Intelligence Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:51:10 +0000 nkannan Social business intelligence is not just trolling for company and product mentions in Tweets or in Facebook. There is so much useful information available, way ahead of time, but many companies do not have a formal way of collecting and... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/why_is_social_bi_just_as_impor.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/why_is_social_bi_just_as_impor.php Business Intelligence Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:36:26 +0000 nkannan Some time ago I wrote another blog entry - Five Root Causes of Bad Data Quality in Business Intelligence. The fifth root cause of bad data quality is errors in the BI reporting logic. In the ideal world, enterprises have ONE SINGLE... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/fixing_the_fifth_root_cause_of.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/fixing_the_fifth_root_cause_of.php Business Intelligence Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:40:52 +0000 nkannan This week, I thought I would take a sabbatical from covering business intelligence to write about a very good book I read recently--about sabbticals. "Reboot your Life" is one of those books that comes in handy when you are in... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/reboot_your_life_to_make_it_mo.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/reboot_your_life_to_make_it_mo.php Life Balance Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:02:03 +0000 nkannan Earlier in March of this year, I wrote about How and Why Tablets will Revolutionize BI. Now there are more articles about how it is actually spreading, like this one - Tablets 'Secret Weapon' for Getting Executives to Back BI.... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/the_coming_on-slaught_of_busin.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/06/the_coming_on-slaught_of_busin.php Business Intelligence Mon, 06 Jun 2011 20:12:26 +0000 nkannan Sometime ago I wrote in another blog entry - Five Root Causes of Bad Data Quality in Business Intelligence. The fourth root cause of Bad Data Quality is inadequate training on software systems! Many software systems suffer from inadequate buy-ins from end-users... http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/05/fixing_the_fourth_root_cause_o.php http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/nari/2011/05/fixing_the_fourth_root_cause_o.php Business Datawarehousing Tue, 31 May 2011 21:59:21 +0000 nkannan