» Necto + Microsoft SharePoint: Social BI Rising
1 day ago by Panorama Business Intelligence from Roman Vladimirov
Our friends at Microsoft have long topped the content management and collaboration market with their wildly popular SharePoint solution. As a single platform for structured and unstructured data, SharePoint has been a favorite of companies looking for a tool that can help them both get organized and promote a team-first environment. So it’s easy for you [...]

» What Mobile BI Used To Look Like, And Where It+#8217;s Going (Back to the Future!)
1 day ago by Business Analytics from Timo Elliott
Mobile business intelligence has been around for a long, long time -- here's a quick look at some of the origins, and where it's going...

» Prepare for the Big-Data Labor Shortfall
2 days ago by Data Doghouse - performance management, business i from Rick Sherman
Where are all the big-data people? A recent front-page article in the Boston Globe raised this very issue. The article, “Mass. firms see riches, jobs in charting oceans of data”, discussed reports on Big Data by the Mass Technology Leadership...

» Alberto Cairo and Functional Art
3 days ago by Visual Business Intelligence from Stephen Few
When I participated as a judge and speaker at last year’s Malofiej conference in Spain—the Oscars of journalistic infographics—I had a chance to become acquainted with Alberto Cairo, who has since become a trusted friend and colleague. I discovered while at the conference that it was a result of Alberto’s suggestion that I was invited [...]

» Banished Words for 2012
8 days ago by Manage By Walking Around from Jonathan
I emerged from my man cave to discover it’s that time again.  Lake Superior State University (LSSU) released its amazing 37th annual “List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse and General Uselessness”.  The idea for the list was hatched at a 1975 New Year’s Eve party in an attempt to win [...]

» BI’s Dirty Secrets – Why Business People are Addicted to Spreadsheets
9 days ago by Data Doghouse - performance management, business i from Rick Sherman
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are the top BI tool of choice. That choking sound you hear is vendors and IT people reacting viscerally when they confront this fact. Their responses include: Business people are averse to change; they don’t want to...

» Nerds Rock!
> 10 days ago by Data Doghouse - performance management, business i from Rick Sherman
Nerds rock, and they are in demand! Love to hear it. EMC's Chuck Hollis says, of big data analytics: The race is now on to acquire -- and maximize the productivity of -- the key talent behind this wave: data...

» BI’s Dirty Secrets
> 10 days ago by Data Doghouse - performance management, business i from Rick Sherman
The overwhelming amount of articles, seminars, white papers and product announcements on big data, predictive analytics, cloud and mobile business intelligence might make you think that every business person is walking around with real-time dashboards on their tablets, figuring out...

» Connecting the Dots: Misunderstood Dimensional Models
> 10 days ago by Data Doghouse - performance management, business i from Rick Sherman
One of the debates one hears when designing a data warehouse is that it should be normalized. Specifically, they say to use a third normal form (3NF) or a dimensional model. This debate is often an ideological battle, where people...

» The Power of RAM: How In-Memory Changes Everything (DM Radio)
> 10 days ago by Data Doghouse - performance management, business i from Rick Sherman
DM Radio is interviewing me on in-memory, details below: DM Radio: January 19, 2012, 03:00PM ET Register Most information workers know that Random Access Memory (RAM) can work wonders, especially when compared to computations that require spinning disk. But who...

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