My third assessment of business intelligence focuses on upcoming technologies that may or may not have a significant positive impact on effective use of BI. It is done in the spirit of one of President Lyndon Johnson’s most meaningless quotes,…
In my last article, I took a look at the basics of business intelligence: its purpose (giving the business on an ongoing basis its current state, e.g., sales, profits and losses), its typical architecture (data warehouse plus supporting software and…
The purpose of business Intelligence (BI) solutions is pretty much the same as the purpose of “military intelligence”: to give commanders at every stage of a campaign a good view of the battlefield and the pros and cons of their…
By Rado Kotorov Data visualization is fast becoming an area of interest for organizations seeking to benefit from the wealth of structured and unstructured data in the enterprise. Solutions are emerging to meet this need, but before companies make a…
Companies that want to adopt cloud-based enterprise applications seemingly face some daunting challenges when it comes to integrating them with on-premise apps or even other cloud apps. As Loraine Lawson wrote on IT Business Edge, citing InformationWeek’s State of Cloud…
IBM’s Watson software offers a new and distinctly different approach to analyzing data. It differs from more traditional approaches in three key ways: It understands much more of the “semantics” of information – the assumptions and implicit meanings behind it…
In the social sciences areas of academia, qualitative research is a hot topic – which usually means that it turns out to be highly useful in understanding your business’ customers, in B2B or in consumer markets. Moreover, the software tools…
Adoption of mobile apps in the enterprise shows no signs of slowing, based on research from Good Technology. Its Mobility Index for the fourth quarter of 2013 indicates 54 percent growth in the use of mobile applications. This increase outpaces…
The technologies collectively known as SMAC – social, mobile, analytics and cloud – are impacting business in ways almost too numerous to count. One clear trend is their ability to give small and medium size businesses (SMBs) access to some…
The promise of predictive analytics seems straightforward and powerful: semi-automated, flexible tools that allow us to predict customer and supply-chain trends better and quicker, leveraging Big Data for more cost-effective implementation of strategies. And yet, one of the principles of…
