In May, I wrote about how data-driven decision making was far from a mainstream practice despite its obvious benefits. A growing number of CIOs, however, appear to be recognizing the possibilities for creating value through better use of all the data…
It’s only been a few weeks since I wrote about the growing buzz for mobile business intelligence, particularly when it’s delivered via tablets. I shared BI expert Howard Dresner’s opinion that iPads and other tablets, which are popular with executives, offer a…
Last spring I wrote about the need to beef up business intelligence in college curriculums, citing my interview with an executive from Information Control Corp., an Ohio IT services provider that had developed a program designed to attract young people…
I love a story about a successful deployment of business intelligence. (Who doesn’t?) So I enjoyed reading about Station Casinos’ installation of a real-time enterprise data warehouse with BI reporting that it uses for customer gaming and guest interaction data at its…
Lots of organizations want business intelligence to be not just about collecting data and creating reports, but about directly facilitating operational improvements. Earlier this week I spoke with Howard Dresner about the latest Dresner Advisory Services BI market research study (more about…
As I wrote last week, citing a recent study by the MIT Sloan School of Management’s Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson, there’s a growing awareness that companies can derive real value from data. The two men found a strong connection between…
In 2003 Nicholas Carr created a stir among tech professionals by writing a Harvard Business Review article, titled “IT Doesn’t Matter” (that he later extended into a book, “Does IT Matter? Information Technology and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage”). As…
Remember when Microsoft had a reputation as an “anti-open” software company that zealously guarded its proprietary code? Things have certainly changed. The software giant is showing an increasing tendency to open up its software to the world via application programming interfaces…
I’ve long thought that business intelligence and social technologies were made for each other. Last January I wrote about BI and mashups, noting mashups not only make it easier for users to work with disparate data but also to share their insights…
It seems companies turn to business intelligence to give them a competitive edge in a still-shaky economy. Enough of them did it last year to drive a healthy increase in BI spending. According to Gartner, global spending on BI, analytics and…