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  • SetFocus Announces October Placement Success for 39 Master's Program Candidates

    7 Nov 2009 | 12:00 am
    Despite unemployment being close to 10% nationally, there is still a growing demand for .NET, SharePoint and Business Intelligence skills.

  • SaaS Provider Oco Unveils Customer, Sales Analytics

    6 Nov 2009 | 8:27 pm
    Oco, a software-as-a-service provider of business intelligence, has launched customer and sales management analytics that incorporates business data from multiple systems.

  • Inside Oracle's Analytic Applications for Financial Services

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:52 pm
    If you've been to any of the Oracle BI Applications roadmap presentations, you may well have seen a slide that sets out "Oracle's Integrated Analytic Solution", which looks like this: Now we all know about the ERP Analytics and the CRM Analytics , and the EPM applications are the ex-Hyperion application such as Planning, Financial Management and ...

  • Book Review : "The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit", John Paredes

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:15 pm
    John Paredes recently sent over a review copy of a book he's just had published, entited "The Multidimensional Modeling Toolkit: Making Your Business Intelligence Applications Smart with Oracle OLAP" . Interestingly, it's a book written about Oracle OLAP but unlike the recent Oracle Press book on OLAP and Essbase, it looks at it from the OLAP DML ...

  • Supply Chain Vendors JDA, i2 To Merge

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:49 pm
    The $396 million merger would heat up competition against Oracle and SAP. JDA Software Group and i2 Technologies announced plans for a $396 million merger that would form a combined software company with a more extensive line of supply chain management products, heating up competition against industry giants Oracle and SAP.
 
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  • Cracking the Code Math for a Veto Message

    4 Nov 2009 | 7:31 pm
    My print column this week analyzes the math behind a coded message in a veto by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor said it was a “total coincidence” that the first letter of each line in his veto message spelled out a common obscenity. Mathematicians who crunched the numbers say the expression was highly unlikely to emerge by chance, though their estimates, as published in the press and on blogs, differ widely. Steven Piantadosi, a graduate student in cognitive sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arrived at a probability of slightly less than…

  • When Numbers Add Up to More Than Math

    27 Oct 2009 | 6:04 pm
    My print column this week examines attitudes towards numbers that go beyond mathematics. Preferences for certain numbers over others have affected the floor numbering in a high-profile Hong Kong development. This is akin to the widespread skipping of the 13th floor in buildings in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world (including the apartment building I lived in while I was growing up). Marc Realty/Chicago A Chicago office building renames the 13th and 14th floor as 14A and 14B, respectively. Fear of the number 13 doesn’t extend to all parts of life. Representatives for several major…

  • Another Exaggerated Sex-Trade Stat

    23 Oct 2009 | 10:04 am
    Counting sex slaves is a very complicated task, but one that advocates of the fight against sex trafficking don’t shy away from. I wrote in 2007 that U.S. advocates’ estimates of 10,000 sex slaves brought into the country annually could be overblown; I cited a Washinton Post report. This week, the Guardian exhaustively dissected the source of estimates that thousands of women were trafficked into the U.K. each year to be foreced into the sex trade. As often happens, the estimate started with a much smaller number that was then speculatively increased to cover all the cases that…

  • The Trouble With Ranking National Health-Care Systems

    20 Oct 2009 | 5:23 pm
    My print column this week examines a 2000 World Health Organization ranking of national health-care systems that continues to be cited in today’s U.S. health-care debate. I argue that the ranking is outdated and flawed. I’m not the first to criticize the ranking. The editor-in-chief of the report, who said he wasn’t fully aware of the ranking methodology until after it was published, denounced the rankings in a journal article in 2003, drawing a rebuttal from the creators of the rankings. Glen Whitman, an associate professor of economics at California State University at…

  • An Encyclopedia of Probability

    14 Oct 2009 | 3:15 pm
    A dollar donated by a foundation had about a 1 in 19 chance of being received by an environmental or animal organization in 2004. That’s roughly the same probability that a female age 50 to 59 in the late 1980s drank a fruit drink or ade at least once a day. Such a quirky convergence of two unrelated events is made possible by a new Web site, the Book of Odds, that has compiled thousands of probabilities and grouped them by topic but also by the magnitude of the probability. The idea, according to founder and president Amram Shapiro, is to create “a 19th-century style reference…
 
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  • SAP TechEd Vienna ‘09 Demo Jam

    Timo Elliott
    27 Oct 2009 | 12:43 pm
    It’s Demo Jam evening at SAP TechEd Vienna – a unique event often described as “American Idol for Geeks” – participants get six minutes to wow the crowd with their innovative solutions based on SAP technology. Mark Yolton, head of community at SAP, kicked off the show with a great video of SAP’s sponsorship of the world 505 sailing championships, and thanked the SAP Mentors for their work throughout the year. Then Demo Jam host Craig Cmehil took the stage to explain the rules (with musical percussion from a rock band installed beside the stage!) and introduced last year’s…

  • SAP TechEd Vienna ‘09 Opening Keynote: Change, Integration and Innovation

    Timo Elliott
    27 Oct 2009 | 3:05 am
    I’m in Vienna this week for SAP TechEd. This morning’s keynote featured Mark Yolton, Jim Snabe, and Marge Breya of SAP BusinessObjects. The show opened with the obligatory high-production-value-video that faded out to a oh-so-sustainable image of a man walking his dog in a field of wind turbines. Then Mark Yolton, the head of SAP’s Community Network, opened the show with a reminder that the success of SAP is due to the extended SAP community, and thanked Zia Yusuf for his work as head of the Global Ecosystem and Partner group over the last ten years. Jim thanked the audience for turning…

  • Blind (and Incompetent) Justice Thanks to Spreadsheet?

    Timo Elliott
    23 Oct 2009 | 3:27 am
    There was a great story in Slate yesterday called “Errors in Judgment — Were hundreds of criminals given the wrong sentences because lawyers messed up a basic work sheet?”. The background: the state of Maryland established a worksheet that graded the severity of a convict’s crime and his risk to society, and was intended to make sentencing more consistent and the administration of justice a little less arbitrary. The problem? And all too-common problem with anything to do with information and analysis: human error. Despite the high-stakes (“months and years of freedom gained…

  • Integrating Live Twitter Streams into PowerPoint Using Xcelsius

    Timo Elliott
    8 Oct 2009 | 2:18 am
    As a frequent presenter, I’ve been wanting to add some more interaction to presentations for a long time. A couple of years ago, I used some .php code I found on the web and an early version of Xcelsius to display a ticker bar during the presentation that contained the subject lines of emails sent to a particular address. And after some frustration, I even managed to put together a simple voting-by-email service that was adapted by the BusinessObjects demo team and worked perfectly during a large internal kickoff. The system worked, but it was cumbersome: it required server code that broke…

  • Most Annoying Business Words of the Year — Animated

    Timo Elliott
    30 Sep 2009 | 4:14 am
    Jonathan Becher recently posted the results of research conducted by Accountemps (”WHAT’S THE BUZZ? Survey Reveals Most Overused Workplace Terms”) where 150 senior executives from the nation’s 1000 largest companies were asked: “What is the most annoying or overused phrase or buzzword in the workplace today?” Just for fun, here are the results in a flash animation below (click on the words to see them “swoop” towards you), and as a PowerPoint Slide you can download and annoy your audiences with… Was this interesting? Share with others on Twitter…
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  • The US Is GM

    Tom Davenport
    2 Nov 2009 | 1:02 pm
    The United States, my beloved home country, has become the General Motors of nations in its lethargy and complacency. This is ironic, because the US (and Canada) own a majority share of GM, but I am focused more on economic similarity rather than ownership. The height of complacency for GM was probably about 2004. In that year the automaker still had the title as the world's largest maker of cars, a title it relinquished in 2007. GM was still profitable in 2004 — but not very much so — and it was losing market share in many of its major markets. That was the year that GM abandoned…

  • Forwarding Is the New Networking

    Tom Davenport
    30 Sep 2009 | 7:57 am
    Michael Schrage recently wrote a post on this site about the importance of forwarding information as a way to enhance network relationships. He's right about this, although the title — "The Disadvantage of Twitter and Facebook" — is misleading (and inaccurate, since people retweet things all the time — but sadly, editors know that anything with Facebook and Twitter in the title gets a lot of page views and retweets). Forwarding is the new networking. The fact that you can't do it easily on Facebook is about as relevant as the inability to do it over the telephone or the…

  • Are Social Media Contributing to the Decline of Civilization?

    Tom Davenport
    10 Sep 2009 | 11:40 am
    I was recently sent a PR message encouraging me to blog about a new "social media for celebrity sightings" website called "OMGICU." (Get it?) Given the sad state of our society, the site will probably be successful. How could it not be, having combined the two greatest time-wasters of the current era: social technologies and celebrity worship! To save you from visiting the site and increasing its page view count, here's a typical sighting: Jill Zarin seen in Upper East Side nnekaj10 says: "And now Jill Zarin and husband have joined their daughter at California Pizza Kitchen... Jill looks…

  • How to Make the Classroom as Exciting as a Video Game

    Tom Davenport
    1 Sep 2009 | 11:50 am
    Children in the Northern Hemisphere are headed back to school this time of year. The great majority of them will go back to the traditional classroom, in which every student studies the same subjects in the same way at the same time. The fact that this approach doesn't work very well doesn't seem to hinder its popularity. We know that students are interested in different things, learn in different ways, and proceed at different paces. So why the "forced march" approach to education? This time-honored but silly approach to education, however, is beginning to crack. This summer, for example, 80…

  • Singapore: A Model of Judgment for the United States?

    Tom Davenport
    21 Aug 2009 | 12:01 pm
    We often talk about judgment with regard to individuals, but organizations and countries can have good and bad judgment as well. I was recently in Singapore for a SAS customer event. Every time I visit, it has struck me as a country with good judgment. Singapore just celebrated its forth-fourth birthday as an independent country, and it deserves to congratulate itself (although it rarely engages in self-congratulation — another aspect of good judgment). In fact, I'd argue that in many ways Singapore is a great example for the United States. Why? Here are a few reasons: 1. Singapore is a…
 
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  • LucidEra a casualty of poor design

    27 Oct 2009 | 3:33 pm
    The rumors could be more than rumors for the SaaS BI company that focused on analytics for Salesforce.com. LucidEra used a variety of open source BI software to address a market need. People wanted SaaS BI and were paying for it. So what was the problem?If you haven't heard, the rumor is that LucidEra is no longer in business.I want to say rumor until someone from the company verifies it. However I've heard from a couple sources now, which is good enough for me to publish this post. Plus their blog is down. Some Salesforce.com customers are looking for BI vendors again. And senior executives…

  • BI only used by 8%, what is the point

    10 Aug 2009 | 11:49 am
    It's hard to hear about the proverbial glass ceiling with the Business Intelligence (and data warehousing) industry. This ceiling acts as an invisible force stopping the industry from moving up or beyond it's current paradigm. Perhaps the holy grail is on the other side; or maybe this is the end. And really there are only two choices: assume the ceiling cannot be broken and live happily or innovate around it breaking past the barrier and into more chaos and opportunity.Shawn Dolley mentioned Netezza's new blog, Previously Impossible. They quote a survey that shows just over 8 percent of…

  • 10 Questions with Bruce Armstrong, CEO Kickfire

    16 Jun 2009 | 2:49 pm
    When you talk with a person who has worked for successful companies and spent time as a venture capitalist sitting on multiple boards, you tend to actively listen to the stories and glean what insight you can. When I spoke with Bruce Armstrong, CEO of Kickfire, it was such a conversation.Bruce is looking to take Kickfire and disrupt the data warehouse market. Their product, as Bruce put it, helps bridge MySQL (which doesn't understand data warehousing) with data warehousing (which doesn't understand open source). He is now in the midst of a David and Goliath battle with Teradata -- his former…

  • 13% achieve BI objectives

    16 Mar 2009 | 3:31 pm
    I'm tired of reading posts about business intelligence needing "an army of consultants", concerns about "losing control over our BI system to a third party", and only 13% achieved their business intelligence objectives.Or Boris Evelson's quote, "Business intelligence is still an art much more than a science."Or Hound of the BI-skervilles stating that data is safer inside a company's firewall than outside in a professional data center.Based on these comments, the way business intelligence is being done today just doesn't make the grade.   There are all kinds of statistics to support this.So…

  • The Net Generation

    12 Mar 2009 | 10:22 pm
    Don Tapscott is entertaining to watch.  He always is pitching his latest book.  An eternal salesperson.  Today it was Grown Up Digital.  Don is calling the Net Generation the generation of kids after Gen X.  These kids have grown up with the internet, Facebook, and Twitter.  Now that 80 million of them are coming into the workforce, they will have the power to change business and our way of life.This will affect companies and governments in significant ways.  I was inspired to write about change in the healthcare industry.More from Don's book.  In 1983, only 7% of households owned…
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  • I’d kill for a trade show

    Ted Cuzzillo
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    Did I mention that I like trade shows? Like so many of us, I live on email and phone, on electronic invitations and Go-to-Meeting voices and floating cursors. After a few weeks in my one-man office, I look forward to the next industry event. I start to crave the face-to-face stuff, that smile-and-be-seen stuff, that I'll-see-you-at-the-show expectation and the flesh-and-blood reality. Wednesday morning, I'm getting on the 6:35 ferryboat in Larkspur headed to San Francisco for the second day ofEnterprise 2.0. — It's showing off lots of potential for BI in SMB, especially the S. But more…

  • No wizard, just you and the data

    Ted Cuzzillo
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:49 am
    What’s the hardest part of training a new data analyst? Resetting the trainee’s mindset. “They start out with the idea that there’s a right answer,” says Joe Mako. Joe’s leaving his job — where about one year ago he began analyzing data — to go work for the producer of Lyza. Lyzasoft CEO Scott Davis sees him as a “prototype” of a kind of creative, resourceful analyst that Lyza was designed for. Joe will engage with other analysts to evangelize Lyza and to help new users ease into the flow. Joe, 29 and a veteran of two Army tours in…

  • Stalking the why: selling visual analysis

    Ted Cuzzillo
    21 Oct 2009 | 1:00 pm
    How do you show the value of visual analysis to business people? Dan Murray can show it in demos, but he keeps looking for the “magic dust” that explains in a snap. He sees visual analysis as a key part of low-cost business intelligence at small- and medium-sized organizations — and he’s set out with evangelical zeal to provide as many of these firms as he can with BI. A new tactic he’s trying involves a simple chart he carries in his pocket. It’s got just two unmarked axes, horizontal and vertical — and a “blip,” a spike on the time axis.

  • Meet the “metador”

    Ted Cuzzillo
    14 Oct 2009 | 4:25 am
    Information Management editorial director Jim Ericson writes about the modern corporate librarian, the “metador.” He talked to that term’s creator, Bob Boiko. Boiko says the people he trains or identifies are not usually tech-savvy people, nor do they seek to be. He sees them as natively talented indexers or organizers who might not be called to the job of subject matter expert. “An indexer is already a metator because they’re adding extra information to tag or otherwise make sure information is accessible. A really good indexer doesn’t need to be a subject matter…

  • BI’s next round: What’s going to dominate?

    Ted Cuzzillo
    14 Oct 2009 | 4:00 am
    With all the talk about technology, let’s pause to refresh with three basics — culture, conversation, and collaboration. These basics will take center stage in BI’s future, and they’ll help decide which tools dominate. Lyzasoft CEO Scott Davis and I have been reading the same book, The Culture of Cities by Lewis Mumford. The great thing about Mumford, said Scott, is his mastery of so many subjects, which lets him see relationships and meaning among facts that might otherwise seem irrelevant to each other. The intelligence that soaks up through every paragraph makes the…
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  • 2009 SQL PASS Summit Update

    cwpeng
    5 Nov 2009 | 4:19 pm
    Bringing Business Intelligence into the Mainstream  This week at PASS 2009, Microsoft delivers on a commitment to enabling pervasive delivery of business intelligence throughout the organization.   In Wednesday's keynote, Tom Casey, GM for SQL Server Business Intelligence, called out that delivering on this vision will require Microsoft bringing BI out of the realm of specialization - specialized tools and specialized skill sets - and into mainstream products that business users already know and love today. The Microsoft Business Intelligence platform delivers on the vision of…

  • Sharepoint Conference 2009 - Las Vegas

    cwpeng
    26 Oct 2009 | 10:27 am
    Overall, we had a GREAT week at the Sharepoint Conference in Las Vegas! It has been encouraging to see the amount of enthusiasm and pent-up demand for BI.  Also, lots of activity on Facebook, Twitter, and various blogging channels about our newest announcement of PowerPivot (formerly Project "Gemini).  Self-Service Business Intelligence was the topic of the hour...   Keynotes and Sessions -          Steve Ballmer’s keynote talked about Insights/BI, and showed BI in his video.

  • Get Everything BI at PASS Summit 2009

    kristinakerr
    13 Aug 2009 | 7:16 pm
    As you may know, Microsoft has decided to make the BI Conference into a biennial event, with the next conference in 2010. For 2009, we are excited to team with the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) to expand the BI tracks at PASS Summit 2009 and help deliver the content that BI architects, developers, and administrators need to get the most value from their Microsoft SQL Server and BI-based solutions.    Four top Microsoft SQL Server executives will take center stage in a series of can’t-miss keynote addresses at the Professional Association for SQL Server’s PASS…

  • WPC round-up for Microsoft BI

    nismith
    16 Jul 2009 | 6:43 pm
      New Orleans was host to the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2009 this week. With over 8,000 in attendance the WPC is a yearly opportunity for MS partners to connect with each other and gain insight into Microsoft’s strategy and direction.  I was able to attend the conference and wanted to provide a roundup for the exposure around Business Intelligence and some of the announcements that were made.   First off, be sure to check out the conference keynotes sessions at www.digitalwpc.com all of the keynotes I mention as highlights below can be found there and I’m…

  • Bringing Panorama Back into the Big Tent

    guyweismantel
    15 Jul 2009 | 3:00 pm
    Hi everyone, I haven't made an appearance on these pages in some time, preferring to let folks like Nic and Ben have all the glory of delivering the news on all the cool things that are happening around Microsoft BI.  But as they're both likely still recovering from their "Who can down the most Hurricane's in 10 minutes" contest I hear was raging at Pat O'Brien's last night at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, I thought I'd step in and deliver some nice news. We've done a lot of work with our friends at Panorama Software over the course of the last six months or so to…
 
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  • Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools Part 2

    Rick Sherman
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:23 am
    This is a continuation of an earlier post that discussed the problems of hand-coding using ETL tools.What Went Wrong?There are two aspects of effectively leveraging an ETL tool. First is learning the tool’s mechanics. e.g. taking the tool vendors’ training either in a class or through their on-line tutorials. Most IT people have no problem learning a tool’s syntax.  Since they most likely already know SQL, they learn the tool very quickly. But the second aspect actually involves understanding ETL processes. This includes knowing the data-integration processes needed to gather,…

  • Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools

    Rick Sherman
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:44 am
    We are creatures of habit. It’s not easy to stop doing something the way we’ve always done it. Especially when we think we are right (but actually we’re not). Let’s explain.I have discussed (some might say preached) in many posts, articles, webinars, podcasts, classes and client discussions that for any recurring data integration tasks IT should use an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL)  tool. This certainly has been the best practice for enterprise data warehousing projects in the Fortune 1000. This is where I got my early experience in data integration and got to use the ETL…

  • Discount on my Online DW and BI Data Modeling Course

    Rick Sherman
    2 Nov 2009 | 10:40 am
    My new DW and BI Data Modeling course is now available on ELearningCurve. This is a great bargain compared to traveling to a conference. From now until November 6 you can get a 20% discount by using the coupon code DM0420.  A well designed data model is the cornerstone to building business intelligence and data warehouse applications that provide significant business value.  My DW and BI Data Modeling course will help you: understand what Logical Data Modeling is, its goals, and its components know the basics of Entity-Relationship (ER) and dimensional modeling understand…

  • Leveraging Enterprise Data Virtual Seminar

    Rick Sherman
    22 Oct 2009 | 7:03 am
    I'll be speaking at TechTarget's  Leveraging Enterprise Data Virtual Seminar today at 11:15 and 3:15. Here's their description:Attend this seminar and learn new ideas and actionable tactics for cost-effectively optimizing or expanding existing BI-PM implementations. Get essential tips to better leverage data from ERP, CRM or other business applications such as SAP, Oracle or other enterprise vendors. Key presenters Mark Smith, CEO & EVP Research at Ventana Research and Rick Sherman, Founder, Athena IT Solutions teach new approaches to overcoming the integration and…

  • Enterprise Software: Who Should Buy Whom?

    Rick Sherman
    30 Sep 2009 | 11:21 am
    In our post Enterprise Software: Is there any one left to buy? we listed the best candidates to be acquired within the lucrative Business Intelligence (BI) and Data Warehousing (DW) industry: SAS (Private) Informatica (INFA) MicroStrategy (MSTR) Netezza (NZ) Teradata (TDC) We have ruled out privately-held SAS because they are very reluctant to be acquired. (If they were willing then IBM would likely have bought them versus SPSS…no offense to SPSS but SAS is the 800-lb gorilla in the business analytics segment.) The Usual SuspectsThe high tech Titans - IBM (IBM), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ),…
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  • IBM Launches Business Analytics Center of Competency in India

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    The Center will house experts with unique skills and expertise in deploying IBM patented analytics capabilities and assets that address specific, targeted analytical applications.

  • Are You Focused on Your Priorities?

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    Most departments could benefit from keeping their KPIs in front of their team members full time. Desktop dashboards from Klipfolio do this by promoting your organization’s short list of carefully considered KPIs on the desktop where they need to appear.

  • Why Do Industry Giants Get Caught Flat-Footed?

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    Will some of the new, promising technologies take established industry giants by surprise? Bill Inmon thinks they might.

  • Operational BI Dashboards:Metrics Beyond the Boardroom

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    With the move to operational business intelligence comes a wide range of new performance metrics and an equally wide range of users with differing capabilities and ways of interacting with technology. When deploying dashboards across an entire workforce, simplicity and role specificity are

  • An Interview with Malcolm Gladwell

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    In this interview with Lou Agosta, Malcolm Gladwell shares his views on Enron, the Wall Street meltdown and what it takes to get really good at something.
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  • Why Do Industry Giants Get Caught Flat-Footed?

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    Will some of the new, promising technologies take established industry giants by surprise? Bill Inmon thinks they might.

  • An Interview with Malcolm Gladwell

    5 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    In this interview with Lou Agosta, Malcolm Gladwell shares his views on Enron, the Wall Street meltdown and what it takes to get really good at something.

  • Lars Tams of Sigs-Datacom

    4 Nov 2009 | 8:20 am
    Lars Tams, Head of the TDWI division at Sigs-Datacom, shares his views of the current TDWI conference, the November event in Amsterdam and the timely topics that will be covered there. He also talks about the upcoming Munich event that is the largest independent business intelligence event in Europe.

  • Yves de Montcheuil of Talend

    4 Nov 2009 | 8:15 am
    Yves de Montcheuil, Vice President of Marketing for Talend, shares what’s new in their recently enhanced data quality offerings. He also responds to the question of whether Talend’s upgrade in data quality and their move into master data management (MDM) were in response to customers’ needs for broader data solutions.

  • Dave Menninger of Vertica

    4 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am
    Dave Menninger, VP of Marketing for Vertica, discusses the recent interest in hybrid row/column stores and explains what is different about Vertica’s hybrid capabilities.
 
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  • Technology Spending Returns. (Yay!) Notes from TDWI Orlando

    6 Nov 2009 | 2:16 pm
    From Blog: Jill DychéIn which Jill predicts the future, thus inducing knowing smirks among her loyal (and patient) readership.

  • Decision Support and Chaos Theory

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:08 pm
    From Blog: Dan PowerRecently, I reread Jurassic Park, a 1990 science fiction novel, written by Michael Crichton. Blog readers may recall from the book or film that mathematician and chaos theorist, Ian Malcolm, forecasted the failure of the amusement park that showcased dinosaurs recreated from DNA in fossils and in mosquitoes captured in amber.Malcolm provides a layman's explanation of chaos theory. In Wikipedia, "Chaos theory is a branch of mathematics which studies the behavior of certain dynamical systems that may be highly sensitive to initial conditions. This sensitivity is popularly…

  • A Tale Of Three Cities, and Oracle, Teradata and IBM DB Events

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:54 pm
    From Blog: Merv AdrianIt was the best of times; it was (sometimes) the worst of times. The month of October has for years been data management analysts' busy season. Oracle, Teradata and IBM hold major conferences, and for customers, prospects, partners, journalists as well as analysts, the recent past, near future and plans for the long term are on display. How vendors use this opportunity to position themselves has always been instructive, and 2009 was no exception. In brief: Oracle took shots at IBM; Teradata put its successful customers on display; and IBM proposed ways to change the…

  • Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools

    5 Nov 2009 | 4:03 pm
    From Blog: Rick ShermanWe are creatures of habit. It's not easy to stop doing something the way we've always done it. Especially when we think we are right (but actually we're not). Let's explain.I have discussed (some might say preached) in many posts, articles, webinars, podcasts, classes and client discussions that for any recurring data integration tasks IT should use an Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) tool. This certainly has been the best practice for enterprise data warehousing projects in the Fortune 1000. This is where I got my early experience in data integration and got to use…

  • The Verdict is in....

    5 Nov 2009 | 11:41 am
    From Blog: Shawn RogersMany of you have utilized the highly respected OLAP Report over the past 15 years when making vendor selections or researching the market. Keeping with the times The OLAP Report has a new name -- The BI Verdict -- and has now moved to a new Web site at www.bi-verdict.comIn the interest of being transparent I have to saw that I partner with the company who produces this product but for years prior we have had access to the research and found it to be some of the best in the business. The BI Verdict is produced by BARC's team of experienced business intelligence software…
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  • Halloween Metrics

    Jonathan
    1 Nov 2009 | 10:07 pm
    Halloween statistics can be scary.  According to a survey of 8,526 people conducted by BIGresearch for the National Retail Federation (NRF), consumers spent an average of $56.31 on Halloween in 2009, down 15% from $66.54 last year.  The survey blames the economy, citing that nearly a third of consumers said the economy negatively impacted their Halloween plans.  It sounds like a reasonable conclusion except that, according to the previous year’s survey, Halloween spending in 2008 increased as compared to 2007.  Since Halloween 2008 came only 6 weeks after the economic melt down, I…

  • MBWA Origins and Spinoffs

    Jonathan
    25 Oct 2009 | 9:56 pm
    After last week’s post, Scrum By Walking Around, a reader emailed me to ask if I knew the the origins of the phrase management by walking around (MBWA).   Rather than replying based on what I believed, I decided to do extensive Web research but the results were inconclusive.  Like me, most sources seem to credit the Hewlett-Packard culture for creating an active management style that ecouraged managers to spend most of their days visiting employees, customers, and suppliers.  As I wrote in the inaugural post of this blog: They believed that only through these two-way dialogues…

  • Scrum By Walking Around

    Jonathan
    19 Oct 2009 | 8:59 pm
    If you’re not in software development, you may not be familiar with an agile software development framework called scrum.  Scrum is an alternative to the traditional waterfall approach and attempts to simplify complex projects by structuring them in short cycles of work called sprints.  Each sprint is based on prioritized customer requirements such that the highest value features are developed first.  When done correctly, each sprint could be delivered to customers, dramatically shortening the time that customers consume innovation. Like performance management methodologies,…

  • Less Is More

    Jonathan
    11 Oct 2009 | 11:52 am
    On my most recent transcontinental flight, I found myself writing the phrase “less is more” in response to a 60 page PowerPoint that I had been sent.   Unlike other irritating phrases, I believe that we could all benefit from following that advice.  Although the origins appear to be in doubt, “less is more” is often associated with the architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, one of the founders of modern architecture and a proponent of simplicity.  In essence, it suggests that we should strive for clarity of purpose and simplicity of design. While it’s hard…

  • Choose Your Words Wisely

    Jonathan
    28 Sep 2009 | 9:22 pm
    In research conducted by Accountemps, 150 senior executives from the nation’s 1000 largest companies were asked, “What is the most annoying or overused phrase or buzzword in the workplace today?”  Their responses included the following: Leverage Reach out It is what it is Viral Game changer Disconnect Value-add Circle back Socialize Interface Cutting edge While these words are annoying, I’m surprised that none of them seem new - the research could easily have been done in 1999 as in 2009.  I expected more words that reflected the global downturn such as staycation and…
 
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  • Webinar: Combine the Power of OLAP with Ad-Hoc Self-Service Reporting

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    15 Oct 2009 | 8:18 am
    We’d love to invite everyone to our next webinar that will take place on Tuesday, October 27th. Combine the Power of OLAP with Ad-Hoc Self-Service Reporting Sign up for the webinar >> The power and value of OLAP are widely appreciated among BI users and IT departments. The ability to interact with data to generate instant insights has proven to be the most powerful BI engine available. The biggest challenge with OLAP is the lack of ad-hoc flexibility to generate reports on top of the data that was not previously brought into an OLAP cube. Join us for a webinar where we will demonstrate…

  • Self-Service in BI: It has to be more than creating your own report

    Oudi Antebi
    13 Oct 2009 | 8:00 am
    Self-service has always been an important factor in the business intelligence community. But in today’s BI world, most companies limit their users to create their own self-service reports on top of pre-defined, pre-modeled data. The self-service capabilities are only feasible when working with such data. The real issue is that users are sometimes limited when required to work with pre-modeled data since so much data is not covered under the “Official BI data warehouse” – ultimately this leads to decisions based on incomplete research. That, coupled with the growing number of…

  • Will SaaS Lead Open Source to Extinction?

    Oudi Antebi
    21 Sep 2009 | 10:14 am
    Over the past few years, open source business intelligence has played a significant role in the BI marketplace. But just why, exactly, is the cloud marketplace suddenly putting such a heavy strain on the use of open source BI software? As is the case with a lot of market shifts, cost plays a crucial role here. The original adopters of open source BI were SMBs without the resources to spend on complex business intelligence solutions. But with the evolution of SaaS, the parameters of “inexpensive” BI solutions are shifting away from on-premise open source towards solutions that don’t…

  • Panorama NovaView 6 Reviewed

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    11 Sep 2009 | 11:29 am
    I found an interesting review of Panorama Software’s latest product by one of the NovaView users. Enjoy it! “I’m very glad to say that not too long ago I got to see a demo on Panorama Nova View 6 with the rest of the BI team, enabling me to further give you detail on it. The demo covered quite a few of the major products: - NovaView Analytics – which existed in previous version though it’s UI has changed - NovaView Flash Analytics – which is one of the new features in this version - NovaView Smart Reporting - NovaView Dashboards - NovaView Executive Dashboards - NovaView…

  • Microsoft & Panorama Joint Webcast!

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    24 Aug 2009 | 7:21 am
    Don’t miss this unique webcast from Panorama & Microsoft: Complete Business Intelligence Solution for Your Microsoft Platform Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Time: 1:00 pm ET/10:00 am PT Duration: 1 hour SQL Server Analysis Services is one of the most powerful BI platforms available today with the ability to create and integrate all of your business data as the foundation for all of your traditional reporting, OLAP and KPIs. While some strong BI tools are available from Microsoft directly, many have shown interest in extending those tools with a complete end to end BI solution…
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  • BBQ = BPM + CRM + EPM + ERM

    6 Nov 2009 | 6:31 am
    This summer I bought one of those fancy outdoor kitchens, and it runs on gas bottles. I got one bottle as part of the BBQ, and off we went. After a while the bottle was empty, and I wanted to exchange it, getting my 55 euro deposit back. I found a garden center in the neighborhood that sells that brand. My wife was surprised to see me come back to the car with two bottles: a full one and an empty one. I had not been successful in trading it in. The garden center explained to me I needed a special deposit form, and the original receipt. The special deposit form could be obtained by sending in…

  • Hadn't done that in a few years!

    21 Oct 2009 | 9:13 am
    As you may have noticed, I am running this global survey for my upcoming book, at www.frankbuytendijk.com (if you haven't filled it in, please do so!). I have over 500 respondents already, and it is time to start to think about analyzing the results. Honestly, I don't like spreadsheets, and I don't feel like writing macro's. So, I decided to use what is now known as Oracle OLAP Option. My first job was at IRI Software, that got acquired by Oracle in 1995 (and I left the company a year before that). I haven't worked with the technology since then, 15 years ago. But if I close my eyes, I can…

  • Journal of Management Excellence, Issue 7

    8 Oct 2009 | 1:09 pm
    Slowly but surely we are expanding the scope of the Journal of Management Excellence. Download issue no. 7 here. In this issue we discuss 'business transformation'. Business transformation has many different facets, and we discuss a number of them. Thomas Oestreich looks at the perspective of the CIO, and how IT needs to grow from a supporting function in the value chain, to a force that drives innovation at the core of the business. Kevin Narain, managing partner at European consulting firm INEUM discusses finance transformation, in an excellent article called "Learning the Ropes". If there…

  • That Time of the Year Again

    28 Sep 2009 | 7:04 am
    (*) Warning. Contains Irony. It's that time of the year again. Running season. Every year I write in my blog on my jogging efforts. Yesterday I ran the "Singel loop" in the City of Utrecht ("Singel loop" does not translate as "single loop"! Loop = Run, Singel = a canal surrounding a city), a 10km run. Last year in my blog I used this run as an example of how measurement can tell you anything you want. Last year: • I improved my personal record for the 10K (great!) • ... as no. 570 I came in last anyway (hmmm... not so great) • ... but the system didn't register the people who gave up…

  • The Curious Case of Financial Consolidation

    9 Sep 2009 | 3:51 am
    One of the goals of a data warehouse is to provide a single source of the truth, as the basis of management information across the organization. Data is collected from various transactional systems, is integrated and aggregated, and made available through business intelligence tools and performance management applications. According to analyst firm Gartner, performance management comprises financial consolidation, financial reporting, scorecards, planning and budgeting, and profitability management. However, many finance professionals question the need for a data warehouse as the source for…
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  • Kale Consultants ties up with MAIA Intelligence as its OEM partner for 1KEY BI

    Dhiren Gala
    2 Nov 2009 | 1:22 am
    Kale Consultants and MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. enter into a partnership to jointly help address the Business Intelligence (BI) requirements of the Logistics & Transportation Industry  Mumbai, November 2, 2009: MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of powerful, intuitive and robust Business Intelligence (BI) tools for ad-hoc reporting and complex analysis that meet the dynamic MIS needs of corporate business users, today announced a tie up with Kale Consultants as its OEM partner.  Kale is a leading technology solutions provider to the Airline, Logistics and Travel (ALT) industry. 1KEY…

  • ERP plus BI Equals More Value

    admin
    26 Oct 2009 | 2:56 am
    Combine enterprise resource planning (ERP) with business intelligence (BI) and you have the “perfect storm” for improving performance and visibility in information management strategies, according to a new study from Aberdeen Group Inc. The Boston-based business research firm gathered data from three surveys, including 520 responses to an ERP survey and 470 responses from two BI surveys, to form the August 2009 report, “ER/BI Connection: Adding Value Through Actionable Intelligence.” “BI deployment as an integrated approach with enterprise applications is…

  • KPI for Travel Agency

    Dhiren Gala
    20 Oct 2009 | 9:42 pm
    Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are used in various organizations to measure overall and individual contribution to the goals of an organization. Usually the travel agency outlines a number of KPIs to estimate performance and evaluate current progress. For example, task performance of the travel agents can be evaluated by comparing the quantity of tours actually sold with the quantity of tours planned to be sold. In the travel agency solution there can be accreted the following indicators: Planned Sales, Actual Sales and…

  • Financial KPI

    Dhiren Gala
    11 Oct 2009 | 9:42 pm
    In today’s finance world, the information you need is spread across many different systems and in different formats. You’re dealing with next quarter’s numbers, profitability analysis and the financial tasks of counting revenue, collecting on accounts receivables, and paying your vendors. Current methods can be error prone, labor intensive, and not always aligned to your corporate goals and objectives. Business Intelligence solutions can help overcome these challenges by helping you align Key Performance Indicators (KPI) to organizational strategy, monitor key financial…

  • Customer Analytics in Retail

    Sanjay Mehta
    4 Oct 2009 | 9:42 pm
    Customers are the heart of any business.  One unshakable rule of Retail business is to “know your customer.” In today’s business climate, this means using business intelligence (BI) software to analyze complex customer data. With BI, companies can answer a wide range of critical questions about their customer base. The questions can include: • What are my company’s segment-wise top revenue-generating customers? • What are cross-selling / Up-selling opportunities? • Which customer segment has have contributed most to revenue growth? • Which type of customers look…
 
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  • SSIS users positive about expressor

    6 Nov 2009 | 11:45 am
    From blog: cooper to logan

  • A new edition of Flow-Based Programming is in the works

    4 Nov 2009 | 1:30 pm
    From blog: cooper to logan

  • Getting Business and IT on the Same Page

    4 Nov 2009 | 11:45 am
    From blog: Business InsightThe Business Intelligence blogosphere is abuzz with questions about how IT and BI personnel can become more effective in serving their internal customers. In fact, a recent study by the Society for Information Management shows that even in today's tough ec...

  • Jet Interactive embeds Yellowfin

    4 Nov 2009 | 3:30 am
    From blog: InsideYellowfinNew Blog from Jet Interactive, showcasing their embedded use of Yellowfin Business Intelligence http://blog.jetcallanalytics.com/ Jet Call Tracker™ is a comprehensive set of 50 online reports that display a wealth of information about call patterns and the people who call your 13, 1300 and 1800 phone numbers. Jet Call Tracker is an analytics, o...

  • laptop battery tips sharing

    3 Nov 2009 | 11:00 pm
    From blog: Just have a little faithIn the laptop world, laptop battery plays an important part when using our laptop both in work and daily life. How to make good use of our laptop battery, and make it much more convenient. Here is the tips: 1). Turn off Wi-Fi and BlueTooth - Most laptops have shortcut ke...
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  • Business Intelligence Resources

    Marcus
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:00 am
    [Download Free 53 Page Business Intelligence Resources White Paper Link Compilation] [Download Free 69 Page Business Intelligence Online Resources Annotated White Paper]Purchase 193 Page Professional Internet MiniGuide titled Market Intelligence Resources 2010 by clicking here. Business Intelligence Resources (BIResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for business intelligence which are listed below. We always welcome…
 
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  • Shortlisted for Computer Weekly Blog Awards 2009

    SB
    3 Nov 2009 | 7:48 am
    My blog is in the final of Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards 2009 in the Individual IT Professional - Female category. Thank you to those who nominated me.If you would like to vote for me please click on this link:http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/03/238190/vote-in-the-computer-weekly-it-blog-awards-2009.htm Voting finishes on 20th November.

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    Visualising Data Uncertainty

  • Visualising Data Uncertainty

    SB
    19 Oct 2009 | 1:54 pm
    Given that good data quality is difficult to manage and maintain in organisations, considerations should be given to designing BI reports that either visualise data uncertainty or indicate the margin of error instead of displaying information as being 100% accurate. In this way, decision-makers can be made aware of the risks that they might be taking when acting upon a BI report and be in a position to plan better and manage expectations.Data quality issues often begin at the point of data entry into a transactional system and find their way into BI applications. Some data quality issues can…

  • Search: Next Big Thing for Mobiles

    SB
    15 Oct 2009 | 11:35 am
    The adoption of mobile phones to access information and digital content on the web is growing fast, but the mobile search user experience still leaves much to be desired. If mobile search doesn’t see dramatic improvement, it will hinder device sales and delay the advent of what could become a huge market for mobile advertising. Mobile search should be easy and give results focused on answers, not links.Read the full article here: http://www.telecoms.com/15178/searching-for-the-next-big-thing

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    Search: next big thing for mobiles
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  • Predictive Analytics World Fall 2009

    2 Nov 2009 | 7:39 pm
    Predictive Analytics World is the business-focused event for predictive analytics professionals, managers and commercial practitioners. This conference delivers case studies, expertise and resources to achieve:- Bigger wins: Strengthen the impact of predictive analytics deployment- Broader capabilities: Establish new opportunities with predictive analyticsPredictive Analytics World Fall 2009 happened in October 2009 at Washington, DC. The conference program is packed with the top predictive analytics experts, practitioners, authors and business thought leaders, including Usama Fayyad, Eric…

  • IBM Information on Demand 2009

    31 Oct 2009 | 8:50 pm
    The IBM Information on Demand 2009 happened this week (October 25 - 29 in Las Vegas). According IBM's website: "Information On Demand (IOD) is a comprehensive vision for unlocking the business value of information for competitive advantage by enabling organizations to establish and leverage trusted information to optimize business performance. Information On Demand can help you:- Manage data over its lifecycle- Optimize content-based operational and compliance processes- Create, manage, govern and deliver trusted information- Optimize business performance and organizational knowledge- Create…

  • Business Transformation

    27 Oct 2009 | 7:28 pm
    Oracle published this month their Journal of Management Excellence, with the title Business Transformation. "Slowly but surely we are expanding the scope of the Journal of Management Excellence. In this issue, we discuss “business transformation”. Business transformation has many different facets, and we discuss a number of them", Frank Buytendijk said, in the Letter from the Editor. Frank also introduced the new editor Toby Hatch, who will drive the next phase of maturity for the Journal of Management Excellence. As always, this issue has several good articles: - Business Innovation: The…

  • Teradata Partners User Group Conference 2009

    26 Oct 2009 | 8:49 pm
    The Teradata Partners User Group Conference 2009 happened last week (October 18-22, 2009 in Washington D.C), with some interesting announcements: an Enterprise Analytics Cloud initiative and the plan to launch a release of an Extreme Performance Appliance based on solid-state drives (SSDs). A lot of people wrote about the event, here are some links with news, posts and articles about the conference:- This Week at the Teradata Partners User Conference - Curt Monash- Teradata Taps the Cloud, Announces Solid-State Appliance - Doug Henschen - More on Teradata's SSD Speedster and (Cautious)…

  • The culture of performance

    6 Oct 2009 | 9:11 pm
    Howard Dresner gave a nice interview to Intelligent Enterprise, where he answered the questions of Doug Henschen and told about his upcoming book: Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change. In the interview, he explained the concept of "Performance Culture Maturity Model", described in his book, with six dimensions and four levels of maturity. He also told about the organizations that he published the case studies in the book.Below I highlighted some answers at the interview:I'll describe the six major dimensions. Two of them are strategic, two of them…
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  • Xcelsius Connectivity – FlyNet Services

    knowledgeworks
    12 Oct 2009 | 11:49 am
    This is a part of a mini series on the data connectivity aspects of Crystal Xcelsius dashboard tool, part of SAP BusinessObjects. Xcelsius dashboards are Shockwave (SWF) files providing rich user interactions and visualizations. The product is a special RAD tool on top of Adobe Flash which focuses exclusively on building dashboards. It has a set of key dashboard visualization widgets including charts, graphs, trends, signals, gauges etc. It is extensible through Adobe Flex. Xcelsius dashboards can be deployed in various manners and has several usage scenarios with typically both individual…

  • Strategy by Measurement

    knowledgeworks
    9 Oct 2009 | 11:23 pm
    Posted in EPM, Strategy Tagged: measurement, Strategy

  • Note: NullPointerException when accessing Dashboard and Analytics Setup (BOXI 3.0)

    knowledgeworks
    3 Oct 2009 | 5:54 am
    NullPointerException: Dashboad and Analytics Setup When using the dashboard and analytics setup for the first time, you might end up at this stack trace screwup: javalangNullPointerException     at comboaautilSecurityStoreGetLogonTokenSecurityStorejava28     at comboaautilSecurityStoregetSecurityValueSecurityStorejava79     at comboaaimplDBServerImplgetSecurityTokenDBServerImpljava166     at orgapachejspjspappsHome_jsp_jspServiceappsHome_jspjava536     at orgapachejasperruntimeHttpJspBaseserviceHttpJspBasejava97     at javaxservlethttpHttpServletserviceHttpServletjava802     at…

  • Data Requirement for Advanced Analytics

    knowledgeworks
    30 Sep 2009 | 12:32 am
    TDWI author, Philip Russom has presented a fantastic checklist on the data requirements for advanced analytics. First, it is a major BI/DW organization which pinpoints the need of different data architectures for reporting and analytics (particularly advanced analytics). Second, it serves as an important document for data warehousing and modeling experts who usually dont consider the advanced analytics usage when designing the data storage. Third, it promotes the provisioning of separate analytical data stores that advanced analytics demand. Fourth, it serves a business case for in-Memory…

  • BI Competency Centers – A Program Management approach towards delivering excelling BI

    knowledgeworks
    12 Jun 2009 | 10:23 am
    I recently came across a client whose need’s where genuinely overwhelmed by a bit of frustration and a lack of solution partners who are not just technology implementers. The company had consolidated a lot of software solutions from various vendors, with overlapping features and functionality and had multiple departments participating in a tug of war for taking their departmental (and individual) BI ventures, enterprise wide. Interestingly, there was the case of an orphaned BI initiative there as well, the sponsors of that project had gone elsewhere! The company came up with the idea of…
 
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  • Because it's Friday: Minard goes Mainstream

    6 Nov 2009 | 7:32 am
    Edward Tufte has spent much of his career evangelizing the benefits of storytelling with data, often citing Minard's famous flow chart of Napoleon's ill-fated march on Russia as an exemplar of the art...

  • Context-Aware computing needs Decision Management

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:26 am
    Copyright © 2009 James Taylor. Visit the original article at Context-Aware computing needs Decision Management. Syndicated from ebizQ In a press release just over a month ago, Gartner said that Co...

  • Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools Part 2

    6 Nov 2009 | 5:26 am
    This is a continuation of an earlier post that discussed the problems of hand-coding using ETL tools.What Went Wrong?There are two aspects of effectively leveraging an ETL tool. First is learning the...

  • The Mullet Blogging Manifesto

    5 Nov 2009 | 11:06 pm
    Blogging is more art than science. My personal blogging style can perhaps best be described as mullet blogging. No, not the “business in the front, party in the back” haircut that I tried to rock back...

  • Floating-point errors, explained

    5 Nov 2009 | 8:18 am
    Back in March, we looked at the reasons behind apparent arithmetic "mistakes" that can occur in software programs like R that use floating-point arithmetic, like this:     > 1.0 - 0.9 - 0.1[1] -2.7...
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    The Business Intelligence Blog

  • Using Business Intelligence to Find Your Economic Recovery

    Guru Kirthigavasan
    21 Oct 2009 | 9:23 pm
    A good starter video for someone who is completely unaware of what BI is all about. share the post:

  • Readmission Rates: A Step Toward Better Healthcare BI

    Guru Kirthigavasan
    9 Aug 2009 | 10:33 am
    Let’s take a step back for a moment to see the trend in performance measurement in healthcare. Most quality measurements on the clinical side of healthcare deal with the inputs to care. For instance, HEDIS measures such as weight assessment and counseling for nutrition and physical activity for children and adolescents, well-child exams, childhood immunizations, breast cancer screening, cholesterol management for patients with cardiovascular condition, etc. measure the actions taken by healthcare providers to improve health. Joint Commission measures also evaluate the inputs leading to…

  • Microsoft’s SharePoint Thrives in the Recession

    Guru Kirthigavasan
    9 Aug 2009 | 10:30 am
    Think of SharePoint as the jack-of-all-trades in the business software realm. Companies use it to create Web sites and then manage content for those sites. It can help workers collaborate on projects and documents. And it has a variety of corporate search and business intelligence tools too. Microsoft wraps all of this software up into a package and sells the bundle at a reasonable price. In fact, the total cost of the bundle often comes in below what specialist companies would charge for a single application in, say, the business intelligence or corporate search fields. While Microsoft’s…

  • The 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence

    Guru Kirthigavasan
    23 Jun 2009 | 6:06 am
    Ventana Research today introduces its 2009 Value Index for Business Intelligence, the second of a new category of quantified, research-based Indexes. This new Value Index provides research-based metrics that will enable organizations to ascertain the value to them of existing and future business intelligence technologies, systems and tools for business and IT in a simple and easy-to-use manner. Using the Value Index, businesses will be able to meet the challenge of evaluating vendors and their products and making choices based on an understanding of how well the offerings meet their needs.

  • Myths of Cloud Computing, Busted.

    Guru Kirthigavasan
    22 Jun 2009 | 11:04 pm
    Myth: The cloud reduces your workload In the long run, maybe. But to get started, you have to figure out which model of cloud computing is right for you; which applications or services are best suited to it; and how to ensure the proper levels of security, compliance, and uptime. And remember, monitoring the performance of any vendor takes extra time. “When you’re running production applications, there’s a lot of thinking that goes on in terms of redundancy, in terms of reliability, in terms of performance and latencies,” says Thorsten von Eicken, CTO and founder of…
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    eMarkets.de B2B Trade

  • Tender Platform for Logistics and Transportation

    emarkets.de
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:07 am
    Cargonis is an international platform for tenders in logistics and transportation. There are above 2000 companies represented at the platform offerung services from parcel and express services to heavy transportation. Registration for consignors happen at the homepage, participation for service providers is free. Similar services are available at the directory by Logistics, Transportation.

  • Wholesale Marketplace for Products made in China

    emarkets.de
    14 Oct 2009 | 7:58 am
    DHgate.com is an international b2b online marketplace for products made in China. The marketplace lists over 10 million products by more than 100000 suppliers. The platform enables contacts to chinese wholesalers as well as direct contacts to manufacturers. Special features of the site are a directory of manufacturers, special promotions and goods already available at warehouses [...]

  • New Internet Marketing Options by Google

    emarkets.de
    28 Sep 2009 | 9:07 am
    Lately Google has introduced several new and free internet marketing options regarding the integration of video within search results and the local search by Google Maps. Regarding the integration of video within general search results Google has announced the usage of semantic data to index video. Furthermore sharing functions to pass on videos to the social [...]

  • Global Marketplace for Services

    emarkets.de
    24 Aug 2009 | 3:52 am
    matchb2b.net is an international auction platform and b2b marketplace for services. The platform is serving individuals, freelancers as well as enterprises and public institutions and has no restrictions to services announced. The service is available by a free and premium version. Similar services are available at the directory by B2B Trade, B2B Lead Generation and IT [...]

  • International B2B Online Trade Marketplace

    emarkets.de
    10 Aug 2009 | 10:28 am
    getamarket.com is an international b2b trading platform, where enterprises may represent themselves with own feature rich homepages. Too, the service enables online trade by presenting goods and making inquiries. Furthermore members are able to exchange information and expert knowledge at an integrated community with forums. The platform primarily is active in Asia and Eastern Europe, the [...]
 
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  • Tyler Perry Talks "Precious"

    Black Canseco
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:23 pm
    At some point tonight—soon as I beat this deadline—i'm gonna go check out Precious, the new Tyler perry joint. Okay it's not a TP production perse, but that's what's gettin' it this far. Point is I'm checking it out.Meanhwhile, I wanted to share this letter from Tyler perry with you. It goes out to his online bas; and once again, it's straightforward, nothing too fancy... whoever writes these missives has got it down. byt the time you read this letter, a good two to three hundred thousand folks will have read this and spread it around and will be packing…

  • Despite $320 Billion Bailout Citibank Screws Customers with 30% APR!

    Black Canseco
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:30 am
    Despite $320 Billion Bailout Citibank Screws Loyal Customers with 30% APR!So I crack open my mail the other week to find a notice from Citibank.  And wait—before we go any further, I've come to the conclusion that Citibank isn't a real bank. They've bastardized the word "bank"—no one's money is safe with these people as they nickel-and-dime folks, left right and sideways. I don't know anyone's that's actually saved money in a Citibank. Or even made money with a Citibank for that matter.We need a new name for them. How about "Citibank…

  • The War for America: The Maafa21 Project

    Black Canseco
    5 Nov 2009 | 6:06 am
    Now, before you write these folks off as crackpot reverse-racist conspiracy theorists… Well, nevermind. All I can say is just consider the facts. Tribalism and shifting socio-economic power structures are truly complex issues; and it’s going to require some serious dialog and analysis….Maybe this film’s a good start. If definitely can’t hurt. For some added background, I’m gonna recommend my favorite book—War On the Weak by Edwin Black. WOTW is stunning read all about the rise of not only eugenics, but its influence on Hitler and the Nazi party, IBM, Planned Parenthood and the…

  • Temp Dollars, White Collars...

    Black Canseco
    4 Nov 2009 | 1:16 pm
    I should hate this.Really, I should.For starters it's like 10 years too late. Secondly their lack of flow is actually butchering one of the most addictive and at the time, most innovative beats in the landscape. Thirdly,... aw screw it. I could give you a whole laundry list of why-nots, but it wouldn't change the fact that I've laughed out loud every time I've watched this thing. So, umm, well...Your turn:

  • Music Review: 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct

    Black Canseco
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:47 am
    So Disrespectful:An Early Review of 50 Cent’s Before I Self Destruct 50 Cent is the Sylvester Stallone of rap. He’s that (older) dude who, once you hear his interviews and see how insightful and articulate he is about the process, the industry, and his personal interests and perspective about how to connect with audiences, you can’t help but wonder why the art he makes isn’t exponentially better.Hey, I liked Rambo and Rocky but I didn’t need 19 of ‘em, with each worse than the first. I loved Power Of A Dollar and GRODT. But Curtis has been chasing that high since 1999 it seems.
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  • Hyperlocalism as a Business Model

    Marty O'Neill
    4 Nov 2009 | 10:30 pm
    I had a great conversation with Dan and Gayle Alexander recently.  Dan is the President and Publisher of Denpubs and Gayle is the publisher of Kidsville News.  Our conversation centered around the business model that seems to be working in the news business.  Headquartered in Upstate New York, Denpubs (Denton Publications, Inc.) considers itself more than a newspaper.  Dan and Gail really feel they are a community service.  And as a community service, they are always working on ways to serve the local folks and are doing quite well. But aren't newspapers in…

  • How Do You Conquer an Island?

    Marty O'Neill
    2 Nov 2009 | 6:18 am
    When Alexander the Great decided that the island of Tyre was between him and the total domination of the known world, you might think the question he and his land based army would ask would be, how do you conquer an island?  But Alexander, perhaps that's why we call him Great, reshaped the problem and asked a completely different question. In his 2004 book, "The Wisdom of Alexander the Great", Lance Kurke, Ph.D. uses the leadership lessons of this historical figure to challenge how we think about seemingly intractable problems. You see old Alex had pretty much conquered most of the…

  • Three Types of Speeches

    Marty O'Neill
    30 Oct 2009 | 5:27 am
    This week I had a wonderful opportunity to speak to a group of business people in Pittsburg, PA.  It was a speech I'd given a number of times before, but on this occasion the outcome was a bit different.  I'd made the choice to leave very early in the morning and make the five hour drive to the home of the Steelers rather than head up the night before.  I cut it a bit too close and was let down by my Google map directions (thank God for the Maps App on my iPhone).  I arrived on time, but a bit frazzled. That leads to the first of three types of speeches ... the one you…

  • Tyranny of the Urgent

    Marty O'Neill
    25 Oct 2009 | 11:11 pm
    I was introduced to this term last week while running a planning offsite for a client.  I can't get it out of my head. Most of us are familiar with Stephen Covey's concept of the four quadrants.  Covey's tool is great for effectively managing your time and many leaders in the midmarket use some form of the four quadrants.  You know the drill.  Your break down your daily activities into categories based on whether they are urgent (not urgent) or important (not important). Rule one for the leader who is aiming to build business value is this: stop focusing on anything that…

  • Building a Legacy

    Marty O'Neill
    21 Oct 2009 | 11:27 pm
    Midmarket business leaders are not always thinking about their legacy, but it's something to keep in the back of your mind.  When engaging your leadership team on any change initiative, it's best to keep in mind the emotional,  intellectual and spiritual, or legacy aspect of your major change.  Once you've got them open on an emotional level to making the change you wish to pursue, and you have them satisfied from an intellectual perspective that your approach makes rational sense, it's time to convey to your leaders the spiritual or legacy aspect of the work at hand. This…
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    MicroStrategy 101

  • Intelligence Server SDK Kit (part 3)

    Sorin Suciu
    2 Nov 2009 | 10:56 pm
    Note: Part 3 includes the work done so far in Part 1 and Part 2. You probably found out by now that the Type and SubType properties of an IDSSObjectInfo (or similar class) return a numeric value. Call me picky, but if I were to build an application I would rather use layman’s terms such as [...]

  • MicroStrategy Price ?? Trade Secret

    Ashish Tiwari
    31 Oct 2009 | 6:22 am
    MicroStrategy pricing is highly secretive and any one having license is barred from making any comment/information about the pricing they negotiated for license for 3 year from the date of acquiring the product license. I was searching for product that will generate price-list and stumbled upon this page. Oracle has given DETAILED price list of the [...]

  • How MicroStrategy, Inc. can change positively to MicroStrategy World

    Ashish Tiwari
    16 Oct 2009 | 11:05 pm
    The bloggers’ conference hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc was a part of marketing campaign. Staged was opened to ask question by bloggers but was too little time. My demands from MicroStrategy, Inc (some of them have been said in the older posts) a reason behind that. Make the evaluation serial valid of 3 months by default. It is [...]

  • A bit dull here for a while

    Ashish Tiwari
    15 Oct 2009 | 8:51 am
    First time being a father, hunting a home, legal activities for a finalized home, mortgage for cash shortfall, transition from leaving colleague, extended work hours, repeated failure of bike, Diwali, extended weekends (gotta do lots of things during these days), etc etc is keeping me on toes for quite some time and will be for [...]

  • MicroStrategy Interview Questions (with Answers)

    Ashish Tiwari
    30 Sep 2009 | 4:30 am
    A friend forwarded some more interview questions regarding MicroStrategy, but this time with answers. I’ve not checked the answers. Enjoy. What are Logical Views used for? Logical Views allows application architects to create any desired view using MicroStrategy, without DBA involvement. Once these Logical views are created, they are available to the report designer in a way [...]
 
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    Creative Distraction

  • Healthcare Solution: Insurance Company Says Peel Fresh Citrus

    Jonathan C. Hall
    28 Oct 2009 | 5:51 am
    When a robot from Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield (HBCBS) left my wife a message Monday, I was provoked first by the cheerful, familiar voice inflection in the greeting: It’s the second call from the health insurance company in a week, so perhaps a familiar tone is warranted. The virtual caller quickly defuses any suspicion [...]

  • Systematic Creativity: Four Templates for New Product Ideation, Innovation and Invention

    Jonathan C. Hall
    8 Sep 2009 | 1:57 pm
    “Time to brainstorm.” That’s the signal in most organizations that the real creativity is about to begin. A brainstorm is called upon to rain diverse solutions upon our biggest problems. In the process, our institutional intelligence crackles and evolves, and from out of the murk brilliant new ideas flash — some of them golden, for [...]

  • Use Twitter Anonymously, and Be Someone’s Muse

    Jonathan C. Hall
    25 Aug 2009 | 6:01 am
    Today, my company launched a sweet little service that lets anyone post anonymously in the Twitterverse. This service has two flavors: the angelic, heavenly Tweet From Above; and the demonic, hell-raising Tweet From Below. Use either or both as necessary. Of course, with the core Twitter community being a bunch of oft-tweeting, self-aggrandizing megalomaniacs, you might [...]

  • Car Fuel Tank Shape: Actual vs. Deduced

    Jonathan C. Hall
    17 Aug 2009 | 12:37 pm
    Deduced shape based on long-term study of fuel gauge behavior.

  • A Little Trick to Expose More User Data on LinkedIn

    Jonathan C. Hall
    12 Aug 2009 | 7:11 am
    Given the enthusiasm with which yesterday’s absurd Onion headline about Internet privacy was circulated, I decided to publish this slightly devious, slightly concerning, slightly useful little trick for circumventing the privacy constraints on LinkedIn’s search utility. In this post, I describe a technique that exposes additional user data about people outside your network whom you [...]
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    Sagacious Think

  • What are you going to do in the next down turn?

    admin
    29 Oct 2009 | 2:26 pm
    Economic signals are telling us that the worse is over and we are pulling out of the recession.  Before we forget the pain, I’m curious if there was any lessons learned that we’ll take with us as the economy starts to prosper? Make those critical connections – Get to know the people now that can help you later, while you both have time.  Networking is such a key to business growth and development, that if there is one gift this economy has given us, its a chance to meet people that we otherwise would have missed.  Use this time to your advantage.  Try volunteering, not…

  • Keep It Real

    admin
    29 Oct 2009 | 2:25 pm
    A big part of running your own business, and indeed just about anything you do professionally, involves networking and interacting with other people.  For some folks this comes easy, others find this experience downright torturous, and for the vast majority we fall somewhere in between.  If it doesn’t come naturally to you, it definitely becomes easier with practice (I promise)  My biggest takeaway from working and networking with people is the importance of keeping it real. Elevator Pitch Every self help book, guru, expert tells you that you have to have a 30 second elevator pitch.

  • Business Plan Writers are Bad Business

    admin
    16 Oct 2009 | 3:32 pm
    looking ahead I’ve long bitten my tongue when I see entrepreneurs outsourcing the writing of their business plan because they are speaking with (insert as appropriate) the VCs, the bank, other investors in two weeks, but no more.  I have some things I must get off my chest.   This document – a business plan – is supposedly the road map for their future livelihood, and they are leaving its development to someone else?  Not only that, but given that this business, which presumably, they intend to have for the foreseeable future, they are only allocating two weeks for the…

  • Product & Team Maturity Model

    admin
    9 Sep 2009 | 1:36 pm
    When preparing for outside financing, its important to understand that investors are investing as much in the team as the product.  So it behoves the team to understand where they stand in that dynamic.  Too often the focus is on the product. I prepared this model, that I use with the companies I work with as an idea of how they fit in the scenario.   That upper-right hand corner is the ultimate goal, but the closer the company is to achieving that goal; probably the less funding required.  The more established the company, the less risky it is.  The idea is that the company has a…

  • Accelerating Innovation: People, Processes, and Technology

    admin
    4 Sep 2009 | 3:51 pm
    Key note speech by Jack Shaw, President of Intelligent Healthcare Technologies on accelerating innovation.  Thoughtful and thought provoking speech, but be prepared, its over an hour. ©2009 Sagacious Think. All Rights Reserved..
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    Arundel Business News

  • TracFone Wireless Launches SafeLink Wireless for Low-Income Households

    Chris O.
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:16 am
    ANNAPOLIS – Prepaid cellphone provider TracFone Wireless launched SafeLink Wireless in Maryland, a free offering that ensures telephone service is available and affordable for eligible low-income households.  The service will provide a free cell phone, mobile access to emergency services and 64 minutes of monthly airtime for one year.  The phone has voicemail, text, call waiting, international calling to over 60 destinations and caller ID. See full release.

  • Raytheon Hires Foster for Biz Dev in Information Security Solutions

    Chris O.
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:15 am
    LINTHICUM – Raytheon Company has lured Chris Foster away from Northrop Grumman to lead business development efforts for its Information Security Solutions (ISS) business.  Before heading the business development and partnership program at Northrop’s Government Systems division, he was the state’s deputy secretary of business and economic development. See full release.

  • High Street Partners Doesn’t Announce Earnings

    Chris O.
    6 Nov 2009 | 5:50 am
    ANNAPOLIS – International consulting firm High Street Partners issued a release saying how much revenue had grown in Q3, except that, um, the revenue wasn’t mentioned, which kinda kills the newsworthiness.  There are lots of credible reasons to not state numbers, but the notice made a head-scratching reference to the firm’s placement on the Inc. 500 list, where revenue is clearly shown.  Was the PR firm being crafty in getting undue coverage? See full release.

  • Heard at AACIA: Double-Dip Recession Possible

    Chris O.
    5 Nov 2009 | 5:20 am
    ANNAPOLIS – At the monthly gathering of the Anne Arundel Commercial and Industrial Association, speaker Anirban Basu said he is one of the 30 percent of economists who think the recently ended recession could restart.  Factors involved are the expected higher taxes, interest rates and the completion of stimulus expenditures, which means growth has to now come from the private sector.  He expects relative stability in ’10 because job losses will slow and there is still a lot of stimulus-based spending ahead, but ’11 is murkier.  In the positive column, Basu said the amount of…

  • Would the Martians Wonder Who’s in Charge?

    Chris O.
    4 Nov 2009 | 4:32 am
    At the Mavenspire open house last week in Annapolis, your ABN scribe won the raffle for a Robosapien.  The programmable robot can sing, dance, torment pets and perform other functions, and judging by YouTube stats, the popular trick is flame throwing.  I could re-gift, but why let someone else have all the fun?
 
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    DealBook

  • Treasury Rejects Sale of Tax Credits to Goldman

    By DealBook
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:58 pm
    As expected, the Treasury Department blocked the sale of Fannie Mae's unused tax credits to Goldman Sachs late Friday, arguing that the government would lose more money on taxes than it would gain from the proposed deal.

  • EBay Settles Suit Over Skype Sale

    By DealBook
    6 Nov 2009 | 4:35 pm
    EBay has formally settled the litigation around its sale of Skype, settling a dispute with the online calling service's founders.

  • Madoff Trustee Drops $279 Million Merkin Claim

    By DealBook
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:42 pm
    The trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's investment firm has dropped a $279 million claim against the New York financier J. Ezra Merkin's hedge funds, which invested one-fourth of their money with the now-convicted swindler.

  • Like Son, Like Father at JPMorgan Chase

    By DealBook
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:44 pm
    Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, no longer has to look very far for parental advice. His father is joining the bank's securities business.

  • Landry's: The New Frankenstein?

    By Steven M. Davidoff
    6 Nov 2009 | 12:46 pm
    The Deal Professor examines the buyout of Landry's Restaurant, a leveraged deal that was terminated in the financial crisis and resurrected from the dead this week.
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    TheMarq

  • Thinking is Overrated

    6 Nov 2009 | 1:14 pm
    Inspirational Thought It seems counter-intuitive that I start off a post with such a title when writing an inspirational thought.  It may even seem more bewildering  using a seated skeleton image at the top of this post!  Not a good start?  Bear with me. I don’t believe thinking is overrated when action follows it.  However, thinking in and of itself, without action, leads to an intellectualized life filled with missed opportunities and disappointments. To put it more positively, I believe the road to a fulfilling life is abundant with thoughtful actions.  This…

  • Faster Surfing with Google Chrome

    5 Nov 2009 | 10:51 am
    Technology Review It doesn’t happen very often that I talk about a non-Microsoft product, but  today’s an exception. I’d read about Google Chrome, their web browser, and wanted to try it out.  Last week I downloaded and started using it.  The first thing I noticed was that the software and page load load times are noticeably and substantially better than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) 8.  Keep in mind, I use two different operating systems.  My notebook is loaded with Microsoft Vista SP 2 Home Edition, while my home desktop has Microsoft Vista 64-bit SP 1…

  • Avoid Blogger Fluff. Read Scoble’s Stuff.

    4 Nov 2009 | 11:24 am
    Blogger of the Week As you’ve likely noticed, I’ve been reading a lot about social networking and media recently.  I’ve certainly written enough about it.  This is all a result of reading blogs by Chris Brogan, Guy Kawasaki,  and Ryon Harms, among others. These are all wonderful writers with a keen understanding on social media.  I’ve certainly learned a lot from reading their posts. I’ve also come across some blogs that are a repetition of their ideas. Some may have a slightly different perspective, but they’re not really adding a whole lot to the…

  • TheMarq’s Comment Publishing Policy Change

    3 Nov 2009 | 5:15 pm
    Policy Change As you may know, I’d opened up TheMarq for open commenting without moderation.  However, I noticed today that there were comments posted that were not only inappropriate and unprofessional, but also unrelated to the topic.  The comments were purely self-promoting with links to the author’s sites.  I don’t oppose if you decide to refer to your site or blog.  In fact, I encourage it. I only ask that you keep your posts relevant to the post and leave out profanity. I’ve now setup comment moderation on the site.  Rest assured, I don’t intend to…

  • …And the Salesman Says, “Trust Me!”

    3 Nov 2009 | 4:30 pm
    Weekly Rant Guy Kawasaki recently wrote in his blog How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness.  This is a very useful list and I found a number of his points equally applicable in marketing and sales of any product or service. Namely, his number 10 item on this is “Don’t call yourself a “guru” or an “expert.” Let your tweets enable people to reach the conclusion that you know your stuff.”  In other words, let the merit of what value you deliver be your selling point.  I’m a true believer in social media, but not as a panacea.  Social media invites…
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    FRED67.com Blog

  • The Garage Sale Is Now OPEN! 24/7

    Administrator
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:02 pm
    OK …. If you go to the FRED67.com homepage now, you’ll see a banner depicting the ‘Garage Sale’. This is an online garage sale, open 24/7 for anyone and everyone to sell their old junk, treasures, unwanted gifts, cars and even property for next-to-nothing. Why not take a few seconds to check it out and see if it’s a facility you could use yourself. It’s Brand New as of the date above this posting, so ads may be a little scarce. BUT! … If you’ve got ‘any’ product or service that you’d like to get out into the public domain, be…

  • FRED67 B2b Referral Club is now FREE!

    Administrator
    30 Oct 2009 | 3:40 am
    Important Notice! Contrary to what other posts on this blog may say…… Subscription to the FRED67 B2B Referral Club is FREE! as from 30/10/09 Feel free to request your invitaion to join HERE I’d like to introduce you to the fresh medium for promoting your business in the ‘Positive’ light it surely deserves. I’d like to introduce you to ‘The FRED67 Business-To-Business Referral Club’ serving predominantly the Thames Valley areas, (but by it’s very nature would be suitable for many International businesses) which is ‘new’ and very different to most other on-line or…

  • A Compressed Summary Of All You Get at FRED67.com

    Administrator
    7 Jul 2009 | 12:01 am
    What You ‘Will’ Get- #1. You will get a maximum ‘One-in-Six’ chance of being chosen as the ‘preferred’ choice of any Visitor that comes to the FRED67  website searching for a ‘trusted’ business in your category. #2. You will have your own web-presence in the form of a ‘Bio-Page’ that will tell the visitor as ‘much’ as you would like them to know about ‘You’ and Your business, therefore setting up a ‘pre-business’ relationship even before they contact you. (There is NO word limit) It’s…

  • The Use Of Mobile/Cell Phones To Search The Internet.

    Administrator
    15 Apr 2009 | 4:29 am
    ————————————————————–  Daily, more & more people are using their mobile/cell phones, ‘not’ just to phone businesses that they’re searching for, but to ‘FIND’ those businesses via the ‘instant inter-net browsing capabilities’ now almost obligatory with each new mobile/cell phone purchased.   Gone are the days of waiting until they get behind their computer screens or fingering through hundreds of options in a vast ‘Volume’ of…

  • A Reason To Believe – In FRED67.com

    Administrator
    30 Nov 2008 | 12:23 am
    OK, let’s sort this FRED67.com thing out now shall we?   Why am I so sure it’s going to GROW your business?   Because the FRED67.com logo is just catchy enough to take up residence in peoples sub-conscious mind. Much the same way as Google, eBay, Yahoo & Virgin does.   Didn’t we all think ‘their’ logo’s were a bit naff at first? I think we all did didn’t we? but now they’re just a natural part of our everyday lives, and we know what each logo means to us without even thinking about it, right?   Why are people even going to remember to type FRED67.com into their…
 
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