As the year draws to a close, it’s time for all of those “looking back at the trends of the prior year” stories. There’s a good review of business intelligence trends on the TDWI website. Like most lists of this type, it’s…
Earlier this month longtime HP observer Mark Smith, CEO and EVP of Ventana Research, wrote that HP may be planning to abandon its Neoview business, by ceasing product development and sales and marketing efforts for the data warehousing technology. This is in stark…
I must confess, I get tired of all the effort put into trying to define nebulous IT terms like “cloud computing.” Thus my initial response to a post by Rob Collie on the =powerpivot(pro) blog, in which he suggests it might be…
I interviewed Cindi Howson, founder of the BI Scorecard and author of “Successful Business Intelligence: Secrets to Making BI a Killer App,” about a year ago. The conversation stuck with me because she made what I thought was a great point: With all of…
With all of the advances in business intelligence and data analysis, a significant number of business decisions aren’t based on data. When I interviewed Jeanne Harris and Robert Morison, two of the authors of “Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results,”…
Actuate, sponsor of the open source business intelligence project BIRT and a provider of commercial BI software based on BIRT, last week announced the project has surpassed 10 million downloads. An item on PC World dashes a little cold water on that…
An eWEEK story about the advisory firm’s recent research quotes Shvetank Shah, executive director of its Information Technology practice, who says continued economic uncertainty “will require even richer analytics and data-driven insight to supplement executive intuition.” As they look to generate…