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  • Which European Country Is The Most Hard Working?

    StatSpotting!
    junior
    14 May 2012 | 5:43 pm
    If you just base it on what you have been hearing, you will never guess this one. We spotted this amazing fact today: “Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the average Greek worker toils away for 2,017 hours per year which is more than any other European country. Out of the 34 members of the OECD, that is just two places behind the board leaders, South Korea. On the other hand, the average German worker – normally thought of as the very epitome of industriousness – only manages 1,408 hours a year. Germany is 33rd out of 34…

  • SAP Visual Intelligence

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    Timo Elliott
    14 May 2012 | 5:09 am
    SAP Visual Intelligence 1.0 (internal project name “Hilo”) will generally available tomorrow*. It is the latest innovation in the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer solution family. It is a desktop-based visualization and data manipulation solution that is designed to complement (not replace) the existing Explorer products. After downloading and installing the application (approximately 150 MB), users can connect to SAP HANA sources and start data discovery, analysis, and sharing. Product Tour: Interface: Creating Charts: The new product will be formally launched at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando this…

  • In Memory of Andreas Lipphardt

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    Stephen Few
    3 Apr 2012 | 12:43 pm
    Earlier this year I was saddened to learn that Andreas Lipphardt, the co-founder and chief executive of the business intelligence software company BonaVista Systems, died tragically on January 27. With a team of never more than three or four people, BonaVista Systems made useful, affordable, effective, and desperately needed data visualization tools that functioned as add-ins to Excel. The company’s first and best-known product was MicroCharts, which added to Excel the ability to embed sparklines and bullet graphs into cells of a spreadsheet. Andreas was the heart of BonaVista Systems.

  • Tableau Software Expands Rapid-Fire Business Intelligence to Asia Pacific

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    14 May 2012 | 8:02 pm
    Data visualization and business intelligence leader opens regional office in SingaporeSeattle, WA (PRWEB) May 14, 2012 Tableau Software, the global leader in rapid-fire business intelligence software, today announced it has opened an office in Singapore with plans to expand throughout the Asia Pacific region in response to market demands for its award-winning software. ...

  • BI Past, Present, Future — Interview with TEC

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    Timo Elliott
    9 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    Note: the following post is republished with permission from Technology Evaluation Center’s excellent blog. It is a part of a series of interviews by Jorge Garcia on trends in the analytic industry.   It is hard to imagine that organizations like SAP or former Business Objects (BO)—now a division of SAP—were once start-up companies. Nowadays on the business intelligence (BI) scene it’s almost impossible to avoid BusinessObjects. Like many other successful companies, SAP has grown into itself by offering a product that applied a radical approach to a business problem solution,…
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  • What Is The Population of The Bay Area?

    junior
    14 May 2012 | 10:50 pm
    This is a question we had in our mind for quite some time – we keep calling it the heart of the tech world, silicon valley etc – how many people are there in the Bay Area, anyways? We spotted this today: “Today, the Bay Area has about 7 million residents. In a free housing market, the population of the San Francisco Bay Area would have been growing rapidly over the last two decades. For example, between 1900 and 1920, the growth of the auto industry helped the population of the Detroit metro area nearly triple, from 540,000 people to 1.4 million people. If the San Francisco…

  • Which European Country Is The Most Hard Working?

    junior
    14 May 2012 | 5:43 pm
    If you just base it on what you have been hearing, you will never guess this one. We spotted this amazing fact today: “Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the average Greek worker toils away for 2,017 hours per year which is more than any other European country. Out of the 34 members of the OECD, that is just two places behind the board leaders, South Korea. On the other hand, the average German worker – normally thought of as the very epitome of industriousness – only manages 1,408 hours a year. Germany is 33rd out of 34…

  • NYC Taxi Cab Touch Screen Payment: Tips Went Up By $144,146,165

    junior
    13 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Once in a while we spot some amazing stat that makes you think for a couple of minutes about how effective something – some process, system, scheme – has been. We spotted this today: “In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment. During payment, the user is presented with three default buttons for tipping: 20%, 25%, and 30%. When cabs were cash only, the average tip was roughly 10%. After the introduction of this system, the tip percentage jumped to 22%. Those three buttons resulted in $144,146,165…

  • Vacation Stats: American Households To Spend About $1,200 Per Person on Summer Vacations

    junior
    10 May 2012 | 3:37 pm
    We had spotted some interesting stats on the amount spent on coffee and the amount spent on lunch – we spotted this today: “American households expect to spend about $1,200 per person on summer vacations, according to a just released American Express survey. Assuming a median household income of roughly $50,000 a year and an average household size of two to three people, that translates to an estimate of 5% to 7% of income going toward vacations.” Statistics Source: CNN Money For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on…

  • Vehicle Sales Statistics: 80 Million Cars and Trucks To Be Sold This Year

    junior
    10 May 2012 | 3:31 pm
    We had spotted some interesting stats on the total number of cars in the US – we spotted this today: “In a world of large numbers, try wrapping your head around these digits: This year, the world is expected to set a new record with the sale of 80 million cars and trucks. Let me put that into perspective: - Annual sales: 80 million - Daily sales: 219,178 - Sales per hour: 9,132 - Sales per minute: 152 ” Statistics Source: CNBC 152 units per minute. wow. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter
 
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  • The Waiting Game

    Carl Bialik
    4 May 2012 | 9:34 pm
    Long lines at airport immigration halls are objects of frustration for travelers, and of study for queuing experts who offer ideas for easing the pain.

  • The Fire Countdown Clock

    Carl Bialik
    20 Apr 2012 | 9:01 pm
    How long does it take for fire departments to get on the scene at a fire emergency? The question is surprisingly difficult to answer, obscured by complexities in definitions and measurement.

  • Cruise Safety, a Century After Titanic

    Carl Bialik
    13 Apr 2012 | 7:09 pm
    Without comprehensive safety statistics for today's cruise ships, it is difficult to assess the industry's claim that its ships are safer than most other means of transportation.

  • Modern Thermometers

    Carl Bialik
    6 Apr 2012 | 8:39 pm
    Temperature alone can't say how warm people will feel outside. Scientists are taking on the challenge of formulating a new way to measure climate comfort.

  • Imagining a Census Survey Without a Mandate

    Carl Bialik
    30 Mar 2012 | 9:07 pm
    It is mandatory for recipients of the Census Bureau's American Community Survey to respond to it. A House Bill would change that. How would that affect the crucial data produced by the survey?
 
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  • SAP Visual Intelligence

    Timo Elliott
    14 May 2012 | 5:09 am
    SAP Visual Intelligence 1.0 (internal project name “Hilo”) will generally available tomorrow*. It is the latest innovation in the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer solution family. It is a desktop-based visualization and data manipulation solution that is designed to complement (not replace) the existing Explorer products. After downloading and installing the application (approximately 150 MB), users can connect to SAP HANA sources and start data discovery, analysis, and sharing. Product Tour: Interface: Creating Charts: The new product will be formally launched at SAPPHIRE NOW in Orlando this…

  • Are You Ready For SAP’s Big Data Processing Framework?

    Timo Elliott
    10 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Steve Lucas, EVP of Database and Technology, unveiled SAP’s Big Data Processing Framework at the keynote session of SAP Insider BI2012 in Orlando earlier this year. I was honored to have the opportunity to be on stage with Steve for the first time, and we were ably assisted by Fred Samson. In the recorded session below, we discuss what “big data” means, why you should care, and how SAP is making it easy to Ingest, Store, Process, and Present “extreme data” with a seamless set of technologies adapted to different needs, including SAP HANA, Sybase IQ, and open-source technologies like…

  • BI Past, Present, Future — Interview with TEC

    Timo Elliott
    9 May 2012 | 9:34 am
    Note: the following post is republished with permission from Technology Evaluation Center’s excellent blog. It is a part of a series of interviews by Jorge Garcia on trends in the analytic industry.   It is hard to imagine that organizations like SAP or former Business Objects (BO)—now a division of SAP—were once start-up companies. Nowadays on the business intelligence (BI) scene it’s almost impossible to avoid BusinessObjects. Like many other successful companies, SAP has grown into itself by offering a product that applied a radical approach to a business problem solution,…

  • Game Changer

    Timo Elliott
    9 May 2012 | 5:20 am

  • Fashion + Analytics + Social = The Perfect Ensemble

    Timo Elliott
    26 Apr 2012 | 2:06 pm
    I’ll be presenting at Decoded Fashion next week at the Lincoln Center in New York: “The first Fashion and Technology Forum Series connecting the world’s best startups and most noteworthy technologies to the Fashion, Beauty and Retail industries to accelerate innovation and increase the bottom line.” It promises to be fascinating, with a wide range of sessions on different aspects of using technology in the fashion business, including leading-edge topics such as “Secrets from Social Curation Pros” and “Consumer-Powered Design”. The speaker list is a who’s who of hot…
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  • Confusion in the Age of Data

    Stephen Few
    1 May 2012 | 3:41 pm
    Contrary to popular opinion, we do not yet live in the Information Age. At best, we live in the Data Age—a time when bits of data constantly zoom past our eyes and buzz past our ears, yet few of them inform us meaningfully and usefully. We’re spending millions to put all of that “Big Data” into “The Cloud” without first learning how to separate the signals from the noise. A storm cloud of our own making is already raining confusion down upon us. Last week I gave a keynote presentation and taught a course at the Teradata Universe conference in Dublin, Ireland.

  • The Gullibility of BI Professionals

    Stephen Few
    17 Apr 2012 | 3:01 pm
    Is the ability to think critically too much to expect of business intelligence (BI) professionals? How about BI professionals who support institutions of higher learning? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect high levels of critical thinking from them? Unfortunately, a recent experience has called this into question. I’m currently in Austin, Texas where I’ll be teaching one of my public workshops this week. On Sunday, I taught a visual data analysis course here on the campus of the University of Texas at the annual conference of HEDW (Higher Education Data Warehousing). I…

  • In Memory of Andreas Lipphardt

    Stephen Few
    3 Apr 2012 | 12:43 pm
    Earlier this year I was saddened to learn that Andreas Lipphardt, the co-founder and chief executive of the business intelligence software company BonaVista Systems, died tragically on January 27. With a team of never more than three or four people, BonaVista Systems made useful, affordable, effective, and desperately needed data visualization tools that functioned as add-ins to Excel. The company’s first and best-known product was MicroCharts, which added to Excel the ability to embed sparklines and bullet graphs into cells of a spreadsheet. Andreas was the heart of BonaVista Systems.

  • Dashboard Insight and the Objectivity of Sources

    Stephen Few
    26 Mar 2012 | 10:32 am
    When you’re looking for reliable information—especially guidance—pay close attention to the sources. Experience has taught me to approach information with a skeptical eye and to always identify and scrutinize the source. This has become especially important since the advent of the Internet. The anonymity of the Web makes it easy for people to claim expertise or to feign objectivity that is lacking. Organizations often publish information that is tailored to serve their own interests, and their interests are often not ours. When you know the source and are aware of its motives and…

  • Bret Victor and Guiding Principles

    Stephen Few
    8 Mar 2012 | 5:52 pm
    We often speak of finding and following our passions. Bret Victor, a talented data visualizer and deep thinker on many topics, believes in finding and following great ideas as guiding principles. I met Bret several years ago and became reacquainted with him and his work again this year. One of his recent projects was the creation of the interactive graphics that accompany Al Gore’s newest book Our Choice. Unlike many interactive infographics, Bret’s are both beautiful and uncompromisingly useful, perfectly suited to the audience and task. Bret and I share an interest in ideas that…
 
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  • The future of BI in two words

    Ted Cuzzillo
    24 Apr 2012 | 2:05 am
    What’s the future of BI? Last fall, one sharp source of mine answered, “Two words: Tableau and QlikView. You didn’t hear it here.” Those are startling words coming from that source, a well-regarded BI consultant known for big-name clients and their big deployments. At about the same time, a column of mine appeared in Information Management titled “Don’t call it BI” — in which I mentioned Tableau and a few smaller tools. A reader emailed, “You should also become familiar with QlikView.” My many Tableau-using friends say QlikView is…

  • Still a “tool” by any other name

    Ted Cuzzillo
    20 Apr 2012 | 3:09 pm
    A marketing manager I know stopped me in mid sentence. He didn’t want me to call his business intelligence product a “tool.” Why? “It sounds small,” he said. But it is small, I pointed out. It’s smaller than many others in its space. It’s downloaded in under a minute and unpacks itself on a desktop in a few minutes. But he waved that rationale away as if it were a fly, and I should have known. Marketing people, like the parents of gladiators, prefer their progeny to be perceived as big. Bigness casts dark shadows over competitors and conceals…

  • My latest at BI This Week: “What Shifting IT/Business Battle Lines Mean for BI’s Future”

    Ted Cuzzillo
    9 Apr 2012 | 1:45 pm
    Line-of-business analysts are advancing on IT’s old territory. Five thoughts on what it means for both parties. Read it here. Related posts: Conditions for the rise of analysts: my latest TDWI column See my latest column in BI This Week (TDWI), “6... Fooled by proximity? Almost the same moment I read that for the fourth... Getting over the ‘P’ word to expand BI horizons Many in the business intelligence industry talk about organizational problems...

  • Talking, talking, talking about big data

    Ted Cuzzillo
    28 Feb 2012 | 4:00 am
    Hang out for a few days at an industry event and you’re doused in trends, hearsay, and preoccupations. It permeates your mind. Acquired phrases come out of your mouth, the hotel food starts tasting good, and at night your dreams may tell you more than you want to know about hot topics. Sometimes, I just have to get away. The easiest way at the recent TDWI conference in Las Vegas was down the long hallway toward the casino. Among the rooms named for murdered emperors, the “Justin II” was wide open with a noisy crowd of TDWI-badged guys inside. I stood in the doorway to…

  • Simple tool, same old resistance

    Ted Cuzzillo
    22 Feb 2012 | 1:20 am
    I’ve rarely heard resistance to BI expressed quite so well. A woman at an oil company said to Metrics Insights founder Marius Moscovici, “If someone wants to know something, they pick up a phone.” The hell with easy information delivery. Make them ask for it. I might understand what Marius witnessed if the woman were faced with any of the heavy hitters in business analytics. These things come encrusted with big promises, but big promises come with big upheaval. Data gets disturbed that some people wish would stay buried. They want to say, “Everything’s fine here.
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  • 'Big data' analytics programs require tech savvy, business know-how

    Rick Sherman
    7 May 2012 | 7:32 am
    Articles and case studies written about “big data” analytics programs proclaim the successes of organizations, typically with a focus on the technologies used to build the systems. Product information is useful, of course, but it’s also critical for enterprises embarking on these projects to be sure they have people with the right skills and experience in place to successfully leverage big data analytics tools.Knowledge of new or emerging big data technologies, such as Hadoop, is often required, especially if a project involves unstructured or semi-structured data. But even in such…

  • The wrong way: Worst practices in 'big data' analytics programs

    Rick Sherman
    18 Apr 2012 | 2:56 pm
    “Big data” analytics is hot. Read any IT publication or website and you’ll see business intelligence (BI) vendors and their systems integration partners pitching products and services to help organizations implement and manage big data analytics systems. The ads and the big data analytics press releases and case studies that vendors are rushing out might make you think it’s easy -- that all you need for a successful deployment is a particular technology.If only it were that simple. While BI vendors are happy to tell you about their customers who are successfully leveraging big data…

  • BI training too important to skip

    Rick Sherman
    6 Apr 2012 | 11:28 am
    Lauren Gibbons Paul interviewed Howard Dresner and me for an article on training, which was published in SearchManufacturing ERP.com this week: Training is the final step of a software implementation and the one everyone loves to skip. The scenario is all too common. Companies spend time up front justifying the purchase, selecting the software and implementing it and then decide they’re done -- giving short shrift to the crucial last piece. When it comes to business intelligence (BI) software implementation, this mistake could render the whole undertaking null and void. BI training that…

  • BI’s Dirty Secrets – The Unfortunate Domination of Manually-Coded Extracts

    Rick Sherman
    8 Mar 2012 | 10:10 am
    Manually-coded extracts are another dirty secret of the BI world. I’ve been seeing them for years, in both large and small companies. They grow haphazardly and are never documented, which practically guarantees that they will become an IT nightmare. How have manually-coded extracts become so prevalent? It’s not as if there aren’t enough data integration tools around, including ETL tools. Even large enterprises that use the correct tools to load their enterprise data warehouses will often resort to manually-coded extracts to load their downstream BI data sources such as data marts, OLAP…

  • Prepare for the Big-Data Labor Shortfall

    Rick Sherman
    25 Jan 2012 | 10:57 am
    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 Council (MTLC) and McKinsey Global Institute regarding the role Massachusetts plays as a hot bed for both Big Data software firms and the people with the skills to level Big Data in their businesses.  Big Data’s promised business benefits range from capturing more of a consumer’s wallet to discovering the cure for cancer.  Software…
 
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  • Real World Data Governance Webinar: Data Governance, Big Data and The Cloud

    14 May 2012 | 4:32 pm
    From Blog: Robert S. Seiner Webinar Thursday May 17, 2012 - 2pm ESTDATA GOVERNANCE, BIG DATA and THE CLOUD Robert S. Seiner - KIK Consulting & TDAN.com Register Today! What is the impact of Big Data and The Cloud on Data Governance? Or should it be ... What is the impact of Data Governance on Big Data and The Cloud? Since these aspects of data management are becoming discovery topics in the least and hot topics at best ... What should organizations do to prepare for governing Big Data? What should organizations do to prepare for governing data in the Cloud? Will traditional data…

  • What influences acceptance of decision support technologies?

    13 May 2012 | 7:50 pm
    From Blog: Dan Powerby Dan PowerEditor, DSSResources.com Acceptance is an important issue when implementing decision support capabilities especially those that are expensive, novel and/or innovative. Developers and managers want users to have a favorable reaction to a new capability. Sadly acceptance is not always the response. Expensive software is sometimes hostily received, little used or "worked around." Acceptance of change can be grudging and even coerced or at the other extreme enthusiastically received and welcomed. Developers should seek cooperation and approval rather than…

  • Start Small: Single Version of the Definition

    10 May 2012 | 7:07 am
    From Blog: Bin Jiang"Every meta-effort is for effectiveness improvement," I think. I think that this think is big enough. If I ask Frank Buytendijk how I should start small with this big one, he would surely say: "Have a guess how the great philosophers would do." He wrote a little story about Confucius at the beginning of his article "The Myth of the One Version of the Truth": "When Confucius was asked what he would do first if he were in power, he responded: 'Cleanse the definitions of terms we use!' According to Confucius, nothing is so destructive for peace, justice and prosperity as…

  • Socrates Reloaded: In Search of Wisdom

    6 May 2012 | 12:40 pm
    From Blog: Frank BuytendijkWe have enough intelligence, what we need is more wisdom. Perhaps a discussion on wisdom feels a bit esoteric for this forum, but I think it makes sense to understand a little bit more about wisdom, for a number of reasons: * It is a humbling experience to experience that with all our analytical skills, we can't really define a term such as wisdom. Obviously there are limits to our business skills... * Wouldn't many of us want to be seen as wise within our profession? That people turn to us for advice? * But most important, with all the intelligence that systems are…

  • QlikView Goes Enterprise

    3 May 2012 | 11:30 am
    From Blog: Wayne EckersonI was fortunate to attend QlikTech's annual Partner conference in Miami Beach in April, and I discovered a few things about the fast-growing in-memory visualization vendor. Historically, QlikTech has sold QlikView to departmental business leaders and then used a "land and expand" strategy to spread its reach within an organization and grow revenues. This strategy catapulted the company to a successful 2010 initial public offering and 40+% annual growth. With $320 million in annual revenues, QlikTech now is determined to eclipse the $1 billion revenue mark. To do this,…
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  • Lake Woebegone Effect

    Jonathan
    13 May 2012 | 4:15 pm
    Lake Woebegone is a fictional Minnesota town on the radio show A Prairie Home Companion described as “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” Lake Woebegone may be fictional but the tendency of people to overestimate their own positive qualities and abilities and to underestimate their negative ones is real. This cognitive bias is called ‘illusory superiority’ in the social psychology literature but is more popularly known as the above average effect.   It’s obviously mathematically impossible but we all think…

  • The Cooties Heuristic

    Jonathan
    8 May 2012 | 11:20 pm
    When I first moved to California, I had the choice of renting a 700 square foot apartment for $650 per month and an 850 square foot apartment for $550 per month. Both were in the same building. The larger and less expensive one even had a better view. I was puzzled by the bargain until the landlord explained to me that there had been an “unfortunate incident” in the larger apartment.  As a result, no one was willing to rent it. It was as if the apartment was contaminated. Although I didn’t know it at the time, people were exhibiting what Wray Herbert calls the “cooties heuristic,”…

  • Solving Traffic Congestion

    Jonathan
    29 Apr 2012 | 6:38 pm
    If a stretch of highway is often congested, we should add another lane to increase capacity. Wrong. In “The Fundamental Law of Road Congestion: Evidence from U.S. Cities,” researchers show any increased capacity from additional roads is temporary.  Traffic increases to fill the added capacity.  The study’s startling findings include: The number of vehicle-kilometers traveled increases in proportion to the available lane-kilometers of roadways.  If there are more roads, additional drivers start using those roads until congestion returns to the previous level. Increasing the…

  • Timing a Ticket

    Jonathan
    22 Apr 2012 | 3:20 pm
    When is the best time to buy an airplane ticket? As a frequent traveler, experience has taught me that the best time is mid-week.  Flights always seem to be more expensive over the weekend.  I like to book flights on Tuesdays. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal supports my intuition.  The Journal used the travel-booking site Kayak to check fares daily in ten markets over two weeks and found mid-week prices were the lowest.  The article also quoted Harrell Associates, an airline consulting firm, which tracked 90 days of fare changes and found that prices drop mid-week.

  • The Curse of the Cul-de-Sac

    Jonathan
    8 Apr 2012 | 4:46 pm
    It might be time to move out of the suburbs. Until about 100 years ago, almost every city in the world was laid out on a rectangular grid. New York City and Washington D.C. are prototypical U.S. examples; most European capitals are also. Starting around 1930 however, city designers abandoned dense urban grids for garden communities with meandering streets and cul-de-sacs.  These new cul-de-sac neighborhoods were thought to be safer and more private alternatives to the pollution, poverty and overcrowding of traditional cities. Most of us still think this way but research shows that this…
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  • New Necto version adds features

    Annie Bustos
    10 May 2012 | 8:50 am
    Panorama recently unveiled its latest business intelligence application. While Necto version 11 already contained cutting-edge business social networking features, Service Pack 2 increases the software’s integration with Microsoft SQL Server, bringing a wealth of data into the analytics picture. Combining the widely-used SQL Server 2012 with advanced BI features on a base level means that companies can turn their existing data stores into agility-building insight. New features The recently released second service pack for Necto version 11 brings full integration with Microsoft SQL…

  • BI Shines at Retail Technology Conference 2012

    Roman Vladimirov
    26 Apr 2012 | 10:39 am
    The Retail Technology Conference 2012, held in Orlando, Florida, served as an excellent platform for Panorama to spread the word on its cutting-edge business intelligence software. The show played host to many software solutions representing the future of retail and Panorama, as a platinum sponsor of the event venue, was proud to be among them. It was the sixth annual convention, held By Retail Information Systems. Panorama at the conference The purpose of the convention is to connect the companies behind innovative new retail technology and the companies eager to use it. Panorama is excited…

  • Business intelligence 3.0: Necto shines at Microsoft and Panorama Open House

    Annie Bustos
    2 Apr 2012 | 3:23 pm
    Innovation in business intelligence software is one of the hottest technology areas for companies. Companies want the latest tools to analyze their data because they know their rivals are doing the same. Panorama recently had the pleasure of meeting the BI-using public face to face at a joint open house with Microsoft Israel. The star of the event was the new Necto business intelligence application, which delivers social BI contextual discovery and advanced analytics features to a wide variety of enterprise users. The event’s 120 attendees got a chance to hear the effect that Necto can…

  • It’s official – SQL Server 2012 now available

    Annie Bustos
    8 Mar 2012 | 10:32 am
    The latest and greatest database offering from Microsoft officially went live at the SQL Server 2012 Virtual Launch Event on March 7, 2012. And Panorama was proud to be a part of the launch. The new release offers many upgrades from its predecessor and is ideal to address the latest data trends. During the launch event, Microsoft vice president Ted Kummert shared this sentiment and spoke about how SQL Server 2012 can address these needs moving forward. “Data is being generated faster than ever before, and organizations need a way to process and analyze all that data,” said…

  • Panorama is the only BI Partner to Participate in SQL Server 2012 Launch Event

    Annie Bustos
    6 Feb 2012 | 10:12 am
    On March 7, the world will be introduced to the next version of Microsoft’s SQL Server database offering, formerly codenamed Denali, and Panorama Software is happy to announce we’ll be participating, as the only Business Intelligence Sponsor, in the global launch event. As a close partner of Microsoft, we’ll demonstrate how SQL Server 2012 will benefit users of business intelligence solutions such as our innovative Necto product. Necto analytics allows enterprise users to receive the full power and value of SQL 2012. Working on both MDX and DAX languages, Necto can handle…
 
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  • Herve Leger's "Bandage Dress"

    15 May 2012 | 11:15 pm
    From blog: baimuCheap herve leger dress outletwas founded in 1985 in France; it is a famous fashion design house in Paris. The corporate headquarters is now in New York, Herve Leger is most famous for its ceremonial dress and evening gown. The design exhibits women's gentle and sexy figure....

  • Business Intelligence and user adoption: A Depp-esc disaster?

    15 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    From blog: InsideYellowfinFull Article http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Business-Intelligence-and-user-adoption-A-Depp-esc-disaster-114543 Brief Industry analyst firm, Aberdeen Group, have reiterated a fam...

  • Health, insurance and retail industries turn to Mobile BI

    14 May 2012 | 9:45 am
    From blog: InsideYellowfinFull Article http://www.yellowfinbi.com/YFCommunityNews-Health-insurance-and-retail-industries-turn-to-Mobile-BI-many-struggle-with-dema-114436 Brief According to Gar...

  • Monster Beats Pro High Performance Professional Headphones White

    14 May 2012 | 7:45 am
    From blog: baimuThree top executives involved cheap monster beatswith a failed hedging strategy that cost JPMorgan Chase & Co at least $2 billion and tarnished its reputation are expected to leave the bank this week, Monster Beats Studio ...

  • My First Web Log

    13 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
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  • Business Intelligence Resources

    Marcus Zillman
    16 May 2012 | 4:00 am
    [Download Free 69 Page Business Intelligence Resources White Paper Link Compilation] [Download Free 84 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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  • Dilbert Quantum Project Management

    30 Apr 2012 | 10:58 pm
    Dilbert by Scott Adams-Dilbert ©2012, Universal Uclick Published at April 17, 2012 in dilbert.com

  • Celebrating 4 years of blogging

    25 Mar 2012 | 11:35 pm
    My blog is completing 4 years today. Many Thanks all of you for reading my blog for the last four years. Your readership is really appreciated.

  • Dilbert on Management's Understanding of Technology

    25 Mar 2012 | 11:20 pm
    (Click on comic strip to view larger image)Dilbert by Scott Adams-Dilbert ©2012, Universal UclickPublished at March 11, 2012 in dilbert.com

  • Welcome to the Social Enterprise

    25 Mar 2012 | 10:41 pm
    Good presentation at Cloudforce San Francisco 2012 by Marc Benioff on how the technology industry is shifting towards social. The SalesForce.com is doing a good job on it, and Marc Benioff is really a great keynote speaker.

  • A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

    22 Mar 2012 | 11:58 pm
    Avinash Kaushik did a great presentation on Big Data at Strata Conference 2012. It's worth watching! Avinash also wrote a post in his blog, talking about the presentation. He defines big data as "the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. The data sources include traditional (now considered puny) sources like corporate ERP/CRM systems and non-traditional (massive) sources like every technical ping from every human or mechanical sensor, all web behavior by everyone across the entire Internet, increasingly digital data from analog sources like hospitals or the…
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    Knowledge Works

  • The KM Oxymoron, Misnomers and tautologies

    knowledgeworks
    9 May 2012 | 5:33 am
    KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT In the word of Oxymorons and Misnomers, we have a whole field filled with one.Our field!Knowledge Management. Simply because Knowledge Cannot Be Managed ! Says This guy and this guy and also this guy oh, this guy too BEST PRACTICES How can a Practice be Best? Isn’t time infinite, isn’t there ANY room for improvement? Maybe the environment in which the (best) practice operates is evolved and the so called best practice isn’t best anymore? I’d say, if a practice has truly become a best practice, then it means we need to innovate, as this practice has…

  • Knowledge Capital vs Organizational Memory

    knowledgeworks
    18 Apr 2012 | 4:43 am
    Knowledge Capital is the set of intangible assets acquired through knowledge creation, extraction, sharing and learning processes performed either in isolation by a knowledge worker or collaboratively in groups to determine insights which are more robust to risk, and assumingly lead to better decision making. Only a part of the Knowledge Capital is in Knowledge bases (explicit knowledge), the other is the sum total of managed expertise, where managed expertise is the talent pool whose value is correctly identified, whose expertise is regularly extracted and put to good use in a timely fashion…

  • Changing a Practice through Experience Capitalization

    knowledgeworks
    15 Apr 2012 | 5:53 am
    Change is everywhere and happens all the time…well except for corporations, where changing a practice, procedure, process is a rare phenomenon and there is no consensus on how to bring about it. Too many variables, too many factors since change always rattles the culture which is hard to define, let alone adapt. Among many techniques for change, including management controls, dictatorship, incentivization, germination and gamification, one instrument is Experience Capitalization. A technique from Knowledge Management which enables Knowledge Capture, Transfer and Utilization all in one…

  • Our Approach to KM

    knowledgeworks
    10 Mar 2012 | 12:54 am
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  • Intro to Knowledge Management

    knowledgeworks
    3 Mar 2012 | 1:31 am
    Introduction to Knowledge Management View more PowerPoint from Atif Abdul-Rahman Filed under: Knowledge Management
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    Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

  • Global Readership

    Peter Thomas
    1 May 2012 | 7:05 am
    I quite like WordPress.com’s latest data visualisation tool, which allows you to see the spread of people reading your blog. The data only goes back to February 25th 2012 and presumably a number of hits can have no country attributed to them, but it’s still a nice addition and interesting for me to see the number of different places that readers come from. Perhaps we’ll gloss over the Mercator Projection and also how annoying and fiddly the WordPress app for iOS is; then things are always harder on iPad – right?   Filed under: blogging, business intelligence…

  • I will be presenting at the IRM European Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference

    Peter Thomas
    31 Oct 2011 | 1:59 pm
    This IRM UK event will be taking place in central London from the 7th to 9th November 2011. It is co-located with the IRM Data Management & Information Quality Conference. Full details may be obtained from the IRM conference web-site here. I am speaking on the morning of the 9th and will be building on themes introduced in my previous artcile: A Single Version of the Truth?   Follow @peterjthomas   Filed under: business intelligence, data warehousing Tagged: IRM UK

  • What should companies consider before investing in a Business Intelligence solution?

    Peter Thomas
    27 Aug 2011 | 1:04 pm
      Business Intelligence Group   The following is a lightly edited transcript of a reply I posted to a question asked on the LinkedIn.com Business Intelligence Group. This was entitled What should companies consider before investing in a BI solution?. I suggest some of the following: What business problems would a BI solution address? Within these, what questions do people want to ask and what action will the answers lead to? Why can’t these people get the answers today, or – if they can – what is wrong with them (incomplete, inaccurate, not detailed enough etc.)?

  • Tiny Trilogy

    Peter Thomas
    17 Aug 2011 | 1:06 pm
    The last in a series of mini-posts, normal (aka more prolix) service will be resumed soon. Although tinyurl.com was a pioneer in URL shortening, it seems to have been overtaken by a host of competing services. For example I tend to use bit.ly most of the time. However I still rather like the tinyurl.com option to create your own bespoke shortened URLs. This feature rather came into its own recently when I was looking for a concise way to share my recent trilogy focusing on the use of historical data to justify BI/DW investments in Insurance. There is something satisfying in thinking that the…

  • You have to love Google

    Peter Thomas
    17 Aug 2011 | 5:31 am
    …well if you used to be a Number Theorist that is. It’s almost enough to make me forgive them for Gmail’s consider including “feature”. Almost!   Follow @peterjthomas   Filed under: google, Pure Mathematics Tagged: fermat
 
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    Building Business Value | Corporate Management Strategies

  • 5 Reasons To Invest in Staff Development

    Marty O'Neill
    8 May 2012 | 8:37 am
    In a May 3rd column titled  “United Technologies, quietly teaching a lesson” in the Washington Post, Allan Sloan, Fortune magazine’s senior editor at large, gives us insight into a United Technologies Employee Scholar Program.  Sloan tells us  “the company would pay for any college or graduate school degree any employee wanted to pursue, regardless of whether it had any connection to a UTC job. The company not only paid for tuition, books and fees but also would give employees $5,000 worth of stock when they got a degree.”  The program…

  • Book Review: TouchPoints, Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments

    Marty O'Neill
    1 May 2012 | 10:02 am
    When it came to my attention that Doug Conant had written a leadership book, I knew it was going to be something I could sink my teeth into and I was not disappointed.  In full disclosure, I met Doug years ago when my wife worked for him at Nabisco.  He also reviewed our first book, Act Like an Owner.  Since his tenure at Nabisco, he went on to revitalize the iconic Cambell’s Soup Company.  TouchPoints focuses mainly on his approach in turning a struggling consumer products company with a totally disengaged workforce into a high performing market darling with an…

  • Improve ROI from SEO by COB

    Marty O'Neill
    25 Apr 2012 | 9:12 am
    A recent National Car Rental commercial reminded me of just how important clear, concise communications is for anyone in a leadership role.  I loved the idea of a “business pro” being able to improve ROI (Return on Investment) through SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and getting all this done by COB (Close of Business).  It is a terrific line, but how often do we speak in a way that doesn’t clearly communicate our intent. We recently did an informal survey of CEO’s regarding what they felt were their key success factors and one item  kept popping…

  • Social Media as a Leadership Tool

    Marty O'Neill
    4 Apr 2012 | 2:11 pm
    Many of us in leadership roles consider social media as a necessary evil, something we can’t be bothered with or just another time waster in busy days filled with client meetings and staff gatherings.  Dr. Alexandra Samuel argues that if that is the case, we’re looking at Social Media in the wrong way! In her Wall Street Journal Article, “Better Leadership Though Social Media”, Samuel argues that social media is not just a way to stay connected, it can and perhaps should be thought of as a way for leaders to gather intelligence on their competitors, monitor…

  • What if you lost 25% of your business today?

    Marty O'Neill
    30 Mar 2012 | 8:19 am
    One of the seminars our firm has developed is called “Connecting.”  It is part of our Next Generation Leader program (sorry for the shameless plug but I want to make a point).  In the seminar, participants are asked to simulate loosing a “chunk” of their business and then by using their personal network only, rebuild their business in a matter of weeks.  Could you do that? How well connected are you?  According to LinkedIn, I am three degrees away from 6.1M professionals!  But could I reach out to those 6.1M people in my time of stress? …
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    MicroStrategy101

  • SharePoint Integration with MicroStrategy

    Ashish Tiwari
    30 Apr 2012 | 3:18 pm
    Recently, while working on one of my project assignments I got to work on the integration of SharePoint 2010 with MicroStrategy 9. The requirement was to pull the report from the MicroStrategy and show that in a web part. We had the MicroStrategy environment set up and also I had my SharePoint development environment set [...]

  • Conditional alerts in MicroStrategy…. that to not using Narrowcast Server

    Ashish Tiwari
    28 Dec 2011 | 6:39 am
    Last week, one of our clients had hugh increase in the sales numbers. Everyone in the BI team gets reports regarding data; data load status, etc as soon as it is over. Local team was a bit amused and prima facia client ath “finally Christmas sale has picked up”. Wow.. but when ETL team looked [...]

  • MicroStrategy India is so lame

    Ashish Tiwari
    9 Dec 2011 | 12:07 pm
    I know that MicroStrategy, Inc is very much pissed off by me not handing over the .IN and .CO.IN domains, but they have been very nice confirming the registration for events held. I really liked it. But looks like recent bash of speaker of event held on did not go too well with them. I [...]

  • Intelligent Cube : Incremental Cube Refresh

    Senthilraj
    20 Sep 2011 | 10:48 am
    Data Refresh Options: Full Refresh: Same as in 9.0.1. Whole report will be refreshed Dynamic Refresh:  Data will be refreshed based on the filter on Cube Example: let’s say cube filter has ‘Today minus 5 days’ Assume cube published on 18th of September So the Cube will hold data from Sept-13th to Sept-18 What happens [...]

  • Microcharts as Tree View Selector

    Sorin Suciu
    9 Aug 2011 | 4:00 pm
    Apparently this functionality has been there for quite a while, but I only chanced upon it recently. Microcharts are not only an awesome way of displaying tons of data in a meaningful way, but they can also be used as a tree view selector. Try to imagine how would it be to use a combination [...]
 
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    TheMarq

  • Construction Work Ahead–Part 3 of 4

    Arash Sayadi
    10 May 2012 | 10:00 am
    Guest Editor’s Note: This is part 3 of a guest post series by a dear friend, A. Scot Tedisco.  See Part 1 and Part 2 to get the full story. You recall, I was doing Randy a favor by walking a job site, where I’d met up with a previous contact from a project, Angela.  She’d made it clear that she hoped I’d land the job, even after learning I was no longer with Bernards! Angela and I had exchanged some final words and said our goodbyes. All that was left for me to do was to tell Randy of the meeting. I couldn’t help feeling a little odd over how Angela and the rest not only…

  • Construction Work Ahead–Part 2 of 4

    Arash Sayadi
    27 Apr 2012 | 8:53 am
    Guest Editor’s Note: This is part 2 of a guest post series by a dear friend, A. Scot Tedisco.  See Part I for a full introduction. You recall where we left off?  I’d shot a message to Erik thanking him for passing me on to Patrick. Not ten minutes later, an auto-email response tells me that Erik is no longer with that company. What the...? Yep, that’s was I thought! The auto-reply also gave a new contact person for that Company. I shot her a note explaining I was just in contact with Erik and if she would now like my info. Of course she does, who wouldn’t? I also get to…

  • Construction Work Ahead–Part 1 of 4

    Arash Sayadi
    12 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    Guest Editor’s Note: The following guest blog post is the first in a series from a dear friend, A. Scot Tedisco.  Scot is one of those rare breeds of professional who believes in long-term commitment to a company, so long as it’s reciprocated.  At one point or another, many of us have changed employers seeking a challenge. Scot always seeks those challenges internally. His dedication has worked well for him.  So much so that the economic meltdown of 2008 didn’t seem to affect him, even though he worked in the construction industry as a Senior Project Manager.  He was…

  • Who Cares What You Do for a Living

    Arash Sayadi
    1 Mar 2012 | 1:32 pm
    Business Startup Do you care about what you do for a living?  Do you pursue it passionately enough to want to spend every living moment thinking and doing something about it?  Are you doing something that at your death bed, as you review your life in those last moments, you can honestly be proud of? Here’s why you should pursue in business what you passionately do outside of it. My wife, one of our close friends and I launched CanvasPet.com last year.  Below’s an excerpt of the organization’s mission: [To provide] a one-stop-shop for conscientious pet owners to purchase…

  • How to Prepare a Pumpkin Mix for Your Pets

    Arash Sayadi
    1 Mar 2012 | 12:47 pm
    Recommendations As many of you know, my partners and I started CanvasPet.com in the last year, where we provide products that are aimed at improving your pet’s health, while donating our profits to national and local no-kill shelters and rescues.  As a part of that effort, we’re producing Quick Tip videos and placing them on the CanvasPet YouTube channel.  Our first one focuses on how to prepare Nummy Tum Tum Canned Pumpkin mixed with home made yams to help your dog’s digestion. This video can be used in conjunction with two of the packages we provide on our site: Jiggy Get…
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    DecisionStats

  • Happy $100 Billion to Mark Zuckerberg Productions !

    Ajay Ohri
    15 May 2012 | 3:00 am
    Heres to an expected $100 billion market valuation to the latest Silicon Valley Legend, Facebook- A Mark Zuckerberg Production. Some milestones that made FB what it is- 1) Beating up MySpace, Ibibo, Google Orkut combined 2) Smart timely acquisitions from Friend feed , to Instagram 3) Superb infrastructure for 900 million accounts, fast interface rollouts, and a policy of never deleting data. Some of this involved creating new technology like Cassandra. There have been no anti-trust complaints against FB’s behavior particularly as it simply stuck to being the cleanest interface…

  • BigML meets R #rstats

    Ajay Ohri
    11 May 2012 | 5:53 am
    I am just checking the nice new R package created by BigML.com co-founder Justin Donaldson. The name of the new package is bigml, which can confuse a bit since there do exist many big suffix named packages in R (including biglm) The bigml package is available at CRAN http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/bigml/index.html I just tweaked the code given at http://blog.bigml.com/2012/05/10/r-you-ready-for-bigml/ to include the ssl authentication code at http://www.brocktibert.com/blog/2012/01/19/358/ so it goes > library(bigml) Loading required package: RJSONIO Loading required package:…

  • Interview BigML.com

    Ajay Ohri
    1 May 2012 | 12:11 am
    Here is an interview with Charlie Parker, head of large scale online algorithms at http://bigml.com Ajay-  Describe your own personal background in scientific computing, and how you came to be involved with machine learning, cloud computing and BigML.com Charlie- I am a machine learning Ph.D. from Oregon State University. Francisco Martin (our founder and CEO), Adam Ashenfelter (the lead developer on the tree algorithm), and myself were all studying machine learning at OSU around the same time. We all went our separate ways after that. Francisco started Strands and turned it into a 100+…

  • Converting SAS language code to Java

    Ajay Ohri
    27 Apr 2012 | 5:48 am
    http://dullesopen.com/ have an interesting nifty application to demonstrate their product Carolina, which is said to run much faster because it converts SAS language code to Java code, hence ideal for Big Data applications and for legacy transitions of SAS code to any other in-database method you want to invoking Java While the website has mostly not been updated in 3-4 years, Dulles Research and Dulles open were even before WPS in getting an alternative to SAS language compilers. From http://dullesopen.com/company/history DullesOpen.com presents enterprise IT managers with Carolina™, the…

  • Avengers Review

    Ajay Ohri
    27 Apr 2012 | 4:27 am
    Avengers is the big ticket block buster which heralds summer just like the groundhog denotes spring. An ensemble cast (of superheroes and okay actors) , it stars Hulk (angry green man aka Dr Bruce Banner /Mark Ruffalo) ,Iron Man (genius billionaire philanthropist playboy aka Tony Stark / Robert Downey Jr), Thor (an Australian looking Chris H), Loki (God of Mischief played  by German looking Tom Hiddleston ), Captain America  and Scarlet Johnassen and Jeremy “Hurt Locker” Renner and Samuel L Jackson. You know somethings is gotta give if the A List stars(?) in the cast is going…
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    Forex Trading Info

  • Forex Trading 2012 – Highly Intelligent Robot Announced with FX Managed Accounts

    15 May 2012 | 8:15 am
    HongKong, China (PRWEB) January 13, 2012 InvestTechFX managed accounts is a service which specializes in managing the trades of clients in the online forex market. InvestTechFX Managed Account traders get special use of professional tools, fundamental and technical analysis to adequately respond to changes on the Forex ECN market and show consistent trading results. InvestTechFX Managed Accounts has been specifically designed to help investors enjoy the sea of opportunities the markets have to offer. Every trader has a style and when your portfolio is being managed under the…

  • Forex Trading Software helps trader earn 5% today

    14 May 2012 | 8:12 am
    Hello everyone. I help students learn how to earn 5% with their money on a daily basis. Find out how in this video. My Forex trading software is simple to use and put into practice. To learn more visit www.forex-trading-made-ez.com — and watch this video again at www.youtube.com Video Rating: 5 / 5

  • Algorithmic Trading – Algorithmic Trading Strategies – Updates on Nikkei – Volume 36

    14 May 2012 | 8:01 am
    Algorithmic Trading – Algorithmic Trading Strategies – Updates on Nikkei – Volume 36 The ability to forecast future directions in the evolution of any financial or economic indices appears more than ever a key feature in modern societies. With our booklet series on “Algorithmic Trading Strategies”, we propose to share our research achievements in forecasting financial markets, through the building of trading strategies, perfectly rooted into algorithmic and mathematical finance. Along this series, we propose a large variety of methods and results on d Price: Your browser…

  • Currency Trading Basics Forex Website AppliedFX.com Gets A Revamp

    12 May 2012 | 8:12 am
    Hertfordshire, UK (PRWEB) August 03, 2011 AppliedFX.com is a new online portal recently launched providing visitors the currency trading basics they require to begin in the forex market. Targeted at beginners and newcomers to the foreign exchange market, the new website fills a gap in the online space which is crowded with strong competition. John Ives, one of the trainers on the site said: “The problem with this niche is a lot of confusing and daunting terminology for the new comers. We encountered similar problems as we learnt forex trading – it was a challenge to find…

  • About Forex Trading The Little Dirty Secrets Turning You Millionaire

    12 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    About Forex Trading The Little Dirty Secrets Turning You Millionaire You will not find this education at you brokers how to section. Most likely you will not find this information anywhere on this book section on any other book store. I have paid thousands of dollars on exclusive groups and paid forums to collect the information presented in this book. As you can imagine these are the highly guarded secrets of the elite of the FOREX traders, no one gives their living away, unless you pay them a price worth their living. However I have decided to make this informa Price: Your browser does not…
 
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    Trends and Outliers

  • Is Big Data Causing a Big Brother System in Healthcare?

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    15 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    As we approach the landmark Supreme Court decision next month of whether Obamacare’s individual mandate for health insurance is constitutional or not, we’re seeing a move from health insurance companies, hospitals and pharmacy plan providers to cut costs with data analytics. But there’s a looming question in all of this – is big data causing a big brother system in healthcare? Let’s explore. What’s with All the Data? Healthcare companies including insurers, hospitals and pharmacy plan providers have access to loads of data on their customers and patients, and…

  • How Business Analytics Can Lead to That ‘Aha’ Moment

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    14 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    Does your company know why it does what it does? Does it have a clear sense of the products and services that can help it blast past its competitors? Many companies don’t, argues Adam Richardson in this Harvard Business Review blog post. And when they try to innovate they’re hobbled without the “core insights” to successfully differentiate themselves from their competitors. The data that drives those core insights – the type of forward thinking that has allowed Toyota to blow past competitors like Honda in the hybrid car market with its Prius – are often locked deep in…

  • Meet Your Company’s New Virtual Assistant – Big Data

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    11 May 2012 | 8:59 am
    While it’s true that big data can help your business gain insight into your customers, be more competitive and build new products, did you know it can also revolutionize the way your company looks at itself? Well, that’s the idea behind AutoPilot, a sort of virtual assistant from Frankfurt-based IT automation and managed services company Arago. AutoPilot combines data and artificial intelligence to take over the most boring and repetitive tasks of managing a large IT infrastructure – effectively becoming a new “hire” on your sysadmin team. AutoPilot is given access to the data…

  • Big Data Requires an Extreme Information Management Makeover

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    8 May 2012 | 7:55 am
    Many companies have been struggling for years to stay afloat amidst the deluge of data created by internal systems. But now, big data or extreme data is pouring into organizations in higher volumes, faster, from a wider variety of data sources, and in more formats than ever before. Big data dangles a large expanse of promise, but it requires business analytics as the foundation of an extreme information makeover for organizations to exploit the potential it offers. For example, companies that use predictive analytics achieve higher returns by tapping into big data, according to Nucleus…

  • FTC Report Puts Data Privacy in the Spotlight

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    7 May 2012 | 8:55 am
    From tweets to transactions, online activity produces huge volumes of data – and while businesses are primarily focused on how to use the data, consumer groups are increasingly concerned about how data collection affects personal privacy. At the end of 2010, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a preliminary set of recommendations to address these concerns. Then the agency reviewed more than four hundred public responses from businesses, privacy advocates, technologists and individual consumers. Recently, the final version was released. You can get the full report here, and it’s…
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    EZebis

  • Scott Orn, Lighthouse Capital on Venture Debt

    pemo
    14 May 2012 | 11:00 am
    Video interview with Scott Orn. Scott is a Partner at Lighthouse Capital Partners. Scott is responsible for identifying information technology investment opportunities, performing due diligence, negotiating and monitoring west coast investments. Scott returned to Lighthouse in 2008 as a Senior Associate after completing his MBA at the Kellogg School of …
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    Finding Answers

  • Create Capacity To Build Your Business

    Erroin A. Martin
    1 May 2012 | 12:14 am
    Erroin A. Martin Finding Answers This article is from Focus421, Inc.    Every business has a similar principle; you could even call it a law that must be followed in order for it to be successful.  That principle is efficient capacity.   The interesting thing about a medical practice is that it is a lot similar to the airlines.  In the case of the airlines, they do not make money until every seat on the plane has someone sitting on it.  A well-run airline will always keep themselves at 100% capacity by having every sit filled on every plane flying through the air.   If you…

  • 65% of Adults Use Social Networking. What About Your Business?

    Erroin A. Martin
    6 Sep 2011 | 11:50 am
    Erroin A. Martin Finding AnswersIf you have been finishing your last days of summer then you and your business might have missed an important report from the Pew Research Center.  Behind all the rhetoric and excitement around social media, I am sure you and your business have been a bit skeptical.  What can social media do for you?   Before we answer that question, let’s dive deep into the data.  The authors of the study interviewed 2,277 individuals eighteen years and older about their online usage. You can read about the methodology here.  They discovered that 65% of all online…

  • Is your business about to be choked to death?

    Erroin A. Martin
    7 Apr 2011 | 3:45 pm
    Erroin A. Martin Finding AnswersTypically when a business begins to choke, or feel like it is being choked, it is normally around financial pressures. The inability to generate cash flow combined with increase desire of creditors/vendors to get paid can choke the life out of a company. That is not what I am talking about. In this case is one person, who holds all the vital knowledge your company needs to survive, choking your company to death? Vital person? You ask yourself, does he mean the researcher, the CEO, or the intellectual resource behind the business? Nope. Not at all. This person…

  • Are You A Leader? Do You Take A Stand?

    Erroin A. Martin
    21 Mar 2011 | 9:52 pm
    Erroin A. Martin Finding AnswersI am working with my local high school to help introduce business to an English class filled with juniors. They are taking the motifs from the novel they are reading and applying it to real world case studies about work. The students bring a very bold black & white view to their understanding of the cases. They have a refreshing approach that removes the “gray areas” we apply as adults. It got me to wondering if the “gray areas”, the “situation calls for”, and the “you don’t understand the unique position” are all really learned traits.

  • 5 Unusual Customer Loyalty Traits

    Erroin A. Martin
    28 Feb 2011 | 9:03 pm
    Erroin A. Martin Finding AnswersEvery business has an ideal customer.  If the business has done an excellent job at market research and testing, then the business should be able to describe in specific detail everything they know about their ideal customer.  The result is a marketing and sales campaign that will become incredibly profitable.   There is another ideal that the business should also strive to obtain.  That ideal is customer loyalty.   A loyal customer not only purchases more from the business.  A loyal customer refers the business to friends, family, and…
 
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    RESULTS.com Business Growth Tips

  • Want better business results? Maybe you are not being tough enough?

    13 May 2012 | 10:08 pm
    I remember being thrilled with my first promotion to a managerial position.  I was promoted from sales rep to sales manager, and had just been relocated by my company to the city where the head office was located.  One of the best pieces of management advice I received, strangely enough, was from the owner of a car dealership as he was handing over the keys of my shiny new company car. As his chain of car dealerships was one of the largest in region, I figured he must know a thing or two about how to be a good boss, so I made a point to listen closely. He said, “I have learned…

  • How to build teams that can execute

    2 May 2012 | 3:27 pm
    Interesting research conducted by MIT measured the key factors that are common to great teams - those which function effectively and achieve business execution success. Interestingly, the notion that you need to recruit the smartest people you can find, and assemble them into a team, matters much less than you think.   Here is our take on the research: Great teams communicate frequently. The more frequently a team communicates, the more successful the team is likely to be.  A lower frequency of communication leads to a decline in performance.  This has implications for office…

  • How to prevent your company growth from stalling

    21 Apr 2012 | 12:21 pm
    It is common for firms of all sizes to reach a plateau where revenue growth seems to stall.  This growth tip references research contained in the book Stall Points.   Political and Economic factors beyond our direct control have an impact on company growth of course, but surprisingly the research shows that 87% of growth stalls are preventable, and are related to the strategic decisions you made in the past.   It is critical to measure the Key Performance Indicators that drive your current business model on a weekly and monthly basis (business execution software is…

  • What business leaders can learn from Private Equity firms

    20 Apr 2012 | 9:40 pm
    The best performing Private Equity (PE) firms have valuable lessons to teach business leaders.  Here is our take on an article from Booz & Co. Cash is king. When PE firms acquire a company, they typically use debt to finance the purchase. This creates an urgency to optimize cashflow to repay the debt.  They tightly manage accounts receivables, optimize inventories, and scrutinize all discretionary expenses. Likewise, business leaders should scrutinize every expense in their business.  Is it “must have” (required to keep the lights on), “smart to…

  • Culture = Cash

    20 Apr 2012 | 7:30 pm
    This week’s growth tip is a guest post from our friend John Spence, Business author and thought leader. "In more than 18 years working with companies around the world, I have come to realize the incredible importance of having a strong organizational culture, as it is truly one of the only sustainable competitive differentiators available to many businesses today. Your competitors can copy your products, they can copy your distribution, they can reverse engineer your technology, they can copy and beat your prices… but one of the very few things that can be a defendable…
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  • What does Big Data mean for marketing?

    Shreesha
    15 May 2012 | 5:17 am
    Yes, Big Data is currently at the peak of a Gartner hype cycle.  Like many new trends in information technology with ambiguous names and all-encompassing abstractions, it became a focus for cult-like adoration and a salvation for data oppression.  Is every data-intensive challenge a Big Data problem?  May be not.  Let’s move beyond the hype to understand what this means for marketing. Generating useful information from raw data has been a challenge from the first days of business computing.  The evolution of more and better sources of data over the decades has been a two-edged sword:…

  • Successful Demand Generation Requires New Marketing Roles

    Shreesha
    4 May 2012 | 4:37 am
    In recent years we’ve noticed a sea change in the skills, knowledge and roles required to be successful in marketing.  Increased CMO turnover indicates unprecedented pressure to generate results.  That pressure, coupled with massive changes in technology and customer behavior, demands a mastery of several new knowledge domains.  CMOs will need assistance from experts and specialists. We therefore think these roles in the demand generation process are (or will shortly become) critical for success. Note that these are role descriptors, not necessarily job titles. Content Developer:  This…

  • Old CMOs, New CMOs and Broken Marketing Organizations – Part 2 of CMO Series

    Shreesha
    1 May 2012 | 8:47 am
    This is the second of two posts about CMOs and the challenges they face.  In first post, we reviewed our thoughts about how CMOs obtain their jobs; and we posed a question about how to approach that first day in the office.  In this post, we’ll try to answer that question, especially in the context of fixing a broken marketing organization. First – and most important – keep your finger off the “reboot” button.  New executives sometimes feel a compulsion to clean house and start with a blank slate.  Don’t do that.  In spite what you heard in your interviews, offline gossip,…

  • SMBs vs. Large Enterprises: Differences in Demand Generation

    Shreesha
    27 Apr 2012 | 4:11 am
    Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are the engine of the current economic recovery in the U.S. As a segment they are growing faster than large enterprises, which means we are seeing commensurate growth in the number of computerized solutions for that segment. Despite that trend, most marketing solution vendors aspire to be purveyors to big (or relatively big) enterprises. Deal sizes, profitability, street credibility and industry prestige drive that behaviour. Although the fundamentals of marketing apply to all businesses regardless of size, specific processes and supporting automation…

  • Is Your Funnel Sick? – Part 3 of Funnel Series

    Shreesha
    24 Apr 2012 | 6:55 am
    This is the third (and last) in a series of blog entries about sick sales funnels.  In the first installment, I reviewed symptoms that may indicate the presence of illness. In the second, I discussed questions and issues that could point to a diagnosis.  In this installment, I’ll prescribe cures to make the patient fit enough to run triathlons. Let’s review the obvious tactical remedies. Segment and focus like there’s no tomorrow:  Your marketplace is not homogenous.  You need to carve it into pieces that distinguish themselves from each other by virtue of characteristics pertaining…
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    Sales Intelligence

  • Defining Social CRM for B2B Sales

    Koka Sexton
    15 May 2012 | 7:21 am
    image source Microsoft Dynamics Community When social media started to take shape in the 21st Century, it represented a way for people to connect, interact and share with others more frequently and more remotely. Twitter, Facebook, and the like allowed users to share the details of their personal and professional lives for the world to see, for better or worse.Now, social media has spawned into as a legitimate form of human communication as speaking with someone in the physical form. Society has changed accordingly, and so has the business of sales.As sales people began to troubleshoot…

  • How to Reveal Social Selling Engagement in Your Social CRM

    Koka Sexton
    14 May 2012 | 10:33 am
    Along with the news that sales executives can now measure a real financial ROI to social selling, there is even more reporting available to managers that want to see who on their sales teams are being the most active with InsideView.New Sales Leadership Reports Reveal Social Engagement and Activity LevelsInsideView today also revealed new Sales Team Activity Reports. These extensive information reports are customizable and designed to give sales leaders a visual summary of InsideView usage within their organization. Additionally, the reports detail the monthly activity and engagement with the…

  • How to Measure Social Selling Results

    Koka Sexton
    14 May 2012 | 8:05 am
    It all comes down to numbers right? I was told something very early on in my career “You can’t manage what you don’t measure”. When it comes to social selling, sales executives want to see the benefits of leveraging social intelligence during the sales cycle. Sales intelligence tools can make an impact on your revenue. B2B sales professionals that make the change are seeing great results. Even with this knowledge many sales executives are slow to implement applications that can make identifying new business and build pipelines faster. Part of this has to do with the…

  • Why your sales staff isn’t on iPads (and why it should be)

    Koka Sexton
    14 May 2012 | 7:22 am
    A new report from Gartner covers the latest advances in sales strategy and some serious stats on B2B adoption of mobile technology, social CRM, and clienteling. Here’s one of their most startling predictions: 80% iPad adoption by pharmaceutical sales forces by the end of 2012. The High Tech, Life Sciences and Insurance industries already have a jump on the game with huge levels of iPad adoption for sales productivity. Insurance is not really what you think of when it comes to being ‘adventurous’ so you know there are some serious numbers behind the move.Budgeting for new vs. old…

  • The Secret of Converting Leads into Sales

    Koka Sexton
    10 May 2012 | 1:35 am
    When you’re a B2B sales rep, few things feel worse than spending weeks or months on a high-priority prospect only to find out that your biggest competitor won the business. If this happens to you frequently then you’re probably feeling stressed out and unmotivated. Fortunately, you can turn things around with a simple secret: if you master the art of qualifying your leads, you can achieve greater sales with less time and effort. Initially you’ll have to fight against some instinctive habits, but with practice you’ll become a lead-qualifying pro. Keep reading to find out how to hone…
 
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    Business-Intelligence

  • Any NASCAR Fans out there? I’ve got some Microsoft Power View Analytics for you.

    phusting
    4 May 2012 | 12:45 pm
    Here is the next Microsoft SQL 2012 Power View example we are doing that is in the theme of NASCAR!  Yeah, go figure, we did analytics for NASCAR.     Actually, it is a pretty amazing looking SharePoint 2010 portal with Power View analytics enabling Twitter along with Team and Driver Analytics.  Check out the screenshots below.  Looks great! Yes these are REAL solutions built with Microsoft business intelligence technologies with the Extended Results highly branding UI/UX touches.  We easily refresh the data in our PowerPivot model hosted in Excel and Excel…

  • Insights for Windows 8–Enterprise Business Intelligence

    phusting
    19 Apr 2012 | 1:05 pm
    Extended Results now has a Windows 8 beta of Insights Social Performance Management solution. Insights brings a social experience to your business intelligence data within your enterprise. Tap the Insights tile Insights Hub Page When you first enter Insights, you are greeted with a background theme that is customizable kind of like Bing backgrounds. We show you your Favorite KPIs along with Movers. Movers are KPIS that are trending up/down at a higher percentage than other KPIs. You also get a quick glance at active comments on KPIs too. Hub Page – swipe from the right Quickly we get…

  • LogiXML Wants You

    kchow
    17 Apr 2012 | 4:19 pm
    When people seek out employment opportunities, some of the things they consider are the health and growth of a company, the ability to advance within a company, and the possibility of not only being a part of something special, but having a lasting impact on it. If you’re looking for an opportunity such as this, then LogiXML wants to hear from you. This is an exciting time for LogiXML. The close of 2011 marked another record year for the company, which grew its sales by 80 percent year over year, as well as its customer base by more than 60 percent. Additionally, LogiXML received a $10…

  • Dashboard User Experience Resources

    hubertlee
    13 Apr 2012 | 11:41 am
    Some more great resources for my Dashboard Spy readers Today, we’re focusing on making sure that our sites and applications actually give our users what they need. Long time Dashboard Spy readers know that my whole focus is on the user experience, particularly that of dashboard design. How can we be sure that the users are getting what they need? It’s actually NOT by listening to what they say they want in their requirements documents. It’s NOT even in the mockups and page layout wireframes that they help produce. It’s only by iterative testing of actual screens that they express how…

  • Microsoft TechEd 2012 Content Catalog – Our Report Catalog is Part of the Show

    phusting
    5 Apr 2012 | 5:14 pm
    Our Report Catalog (www.reportcatalog.com) solution will be showcased at the Microsoft TechEd conference. If you are going and are experiencing “Report Overload”, make sure you attend this session. The speaker is Sanjay Soni and is fun to hear him speak about BI. He is very passionate about the subject. Source: http://northamerica.msteched.com/contentcatalog?wt.mc_id=TEInsidersVol3&CR_CC=200081481#fbid=-2ccXeItCIS Filter on Database & Business Intelligence Read Original Post
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    Bime - SaaS Business Intelligence | Analytics & Dashboards

  • Bime Travel Diary – Las Vegas : Enterprise Cloud Summit May 2012

    jonathan
    15 May 2012 | 7:05 am
    After the launch of Google BigQuery we were pleased to be able to show off our new collaboration in “the entertainment capital of the world”… Las Vegas. Last week, as part of an express N.American tour, Rachel attended the Interop Enterprise Cloud Summit in Las Vegas as a speaker. Hosted in the famous Mandalay Bay Hotel, the event brought together players from SaaS / IaaS / PaaS / telecom. etc. We presented alongside Ju-Kay Kwek, Product Manager of Google Big Query… Why?… Because we were one of their first BigQuery partners (the official BigQuery launch was a…

  • Bime N.America Tour – Upcoming US & Canadian Events

    jonathan
    2 May 2012 | 8:11 am
    We will be making the hop across the pond at various times over the next couple of months. See you there ? Contact Rachel Delacour on rachel(at)wearecloud(dot)com. Upcoming US & Canada Dates 7-8th May: Interop – Enteprise Cloud Summit – Las Vegas – We will be presenting with Ju-Kay Kwek from Google. 8-9th May: Meetings – Seattle 10th May: JusticeBC Data Dashboard Project Recognition Event – Vancouver …… 2-10th June: French Tech Tour – Silicon Valley …… 27-29th June: Google IO – San Francisco

  • Google Launches Big Query, Bime featured in the GigaOM article

    jonathan
    2 May 2012 | 5:14 am
    On Tuesday Google made their data analytics service, Big Query available to the public. Innovators can build services on top of the back end Big Query technology and we were pleased to be featured in the GigaOM article reporting the launch – “Google opens up its BigQuery data analytics service to all”. Big Data allows users to upload their data to Google and perform business analytics in the cloud. Google are offering up to 2 terabytes of storage and provide processing on up to 1000 queries per day. As Google state in their blog post, the release of Big Query is:…

  • Bime April Newsletter: Cloud Analytics for Open Data – Europages Customer Testimonial & Much More

    jonathan
    30 Apr 2012 | 9:01 am
    Each month we bring you some of the latest news from Bime HQ in our monthly newsletter. Didn’t get this month’s newsletter? Sign up here. In this month’s newsletter: Europages Customer Testimonial: Open Data Initiative with Bime & Cospheris French Tech Tour In Silicon Valley Our New Partner: Skill Of Success Dashboard Of The Month: ‘What If’ Dashboard Read it here!

  • Europages Customer Testimonial: Open Data Initiative with Bime

    jonathan
    30 Apr 2012 | 2:44 am
    Europages is a B2B search engine and online directory aimed at European buyers, suppliers, distributors and exporters with the aim of providing customers with targeted contacts. Linking these different parties together, the company has a large amount of important statistical data about its 4million monthly visitors (5 terabytes per year). As part of an Open Data initiative, Patrick Buisson, Marketing Manager of Europages wanted to make this data available to all their users online. Much of it has gradually been made avaialable to users: the visits by country, the keywords used, the searches…
 
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    blog.jinfonet.com

  • JDashboard: Easy to Build, Easy to Use

    Katelyn Bornak
    9 May 2012 | 12:47 pm
    JReport 11 brings even more advanced data visualization to users via JDashboard, JReport’s powerful dashboard reporting solution. With JDashboard, end users can easily create custom, highly visual, drag-and-drop, dashboards from scratch to meet their exact criteria for analysis without needing to wait for the help of a developer. JDashboard provides intuitive features for mashing up different components pulled from the convenient Component Library. The Component Library can hold any number of pre-built components for users to select from such as tables, crosstabs, and more than 40+…

  • Live Charting with JReport 11

    Katelyn Bornak
    1 May 2012 | 12:19 pm
    As we’ve mentioned already, with the release of Version 11, JReport’s robust visualization features have been enhanced even further. Already providing access to more than 40 chart types and styles users can now include live charts like motion charts, scrollable charts, and real-time charts in their dashboards and reports. Live charts make it easy for users to interactively visualize historical data and easily discover trends. JReport’s motion charts use auto-playable parameters to show for example, month-by-month changes to sales data over the course of a year. These motion charts make…

  • Introducing JReport 11!

    Katelyn Bornak
    26 Apr 2012 | 11:09 am
    This week Jinfonet announced JReport 11, providing users with advanced data visualization and a powerful dashboard system. One of the highlights of this release is live charting. Now, in addition to the 40+ chart types and styles already included in JReport, V11 is enhanced with live charting including motion, real-time, and scrollable charts. With the live charts, users can more easily analyze data trends over time in their reports and dashboards via interactive, playable parameters. Additionally, with JDashboard users can create and interact with highly visual drag-and-drop dashboards. End…

  • Q&A: Visual Information Discovery: Get More Out of Your Data

    Katelyn Bornak
    19 Apr 2012 | 9:30 am
    If you missed any of yesterday’s webinar presentation highlighting JReport’s visualization solution be sure to watch it on-demand here or take a look the great questions we received from our attendees during the presentation below, to learn more about some of the JReport features we discussed. 1) Is it possible to have different data sources for different components in the same report? JReport is very flexible so you can have different data sources in every component. And, since some of the components can even have embedded components, you can have a single report have multiple data…

  • Rich Visualization for Powerful Reports

    Katelyn Bornak
    11 Apr 2012 | 3:03 pm
    Being able to express data in a way that is easy to read and interpret can mean the difference between success and failure when dealing with critical metrics. Reports and dashboards with actionable, up-to-date information are a major asset in business today and JReport is an end-to-end solution able to provide powerful reporting enterprise-wide. Advanced visualization makes data easier to understand and JReport has many visualization-centric features to help users express their data. For example JReport provides users access to a wide variety of drag-and-drop components including crosstabs,…
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    The Solopreneur Life®

  • No Doubt About It: You Can Be Great

    Larry Keltto
    15 May 2012 | 11:26 pm
    If you ever have doubts about your ability to make a difference in the world, remember this quote: “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” –Martin Luther King, Jr. I can’t improve on King’s quote, but to bring his idea into the solopreneur life, I add this: You don’t have to have a Web site to serve. You don’t have to have a killer business plan to…

  • The Glamorous Life of the Solopreneur, Example No. 83

    Larry Keltto
    12 May 2012 | 12:13 am
    The solopreneur life — it’s so, so glamorous! The home on the beach, the 4-hour work weeks, the world travel, the wealth and riches! If you’re a regular reader of my columns, you know that I’m kidding.Griffin This week our dog Griffin had, ahem, bowel issues. He let me know about it while I was trying to work. Barking. Whining. Pacing. Scratching at my door. Begging to be taken outside — frequently. So, see Larry inspecting the clinical evidence. See Larry googling “Shih Tzu diarrhea.” See Larry calling the vet. See Larry searching the house for…

  • Featured Soloist Derek Peterson: “Always Work to Fill the Glass”

    Larry Keltto
    8 May 2012 | 1:13 am
    This is The Solopreneur Life’s “Featured Soloist,” the purpose of which is to give all of us a glimpse at how other solopreneurs operate their small businesses. Today we meet Derek Peterson. If you would like to be the “Featured Soloist,” please send me an e-mail, Larry@TheSolopreneurLife.com. Derek Peterson Name of solopreneur: Derek Peterson, International Child/Youth Advocate Name of business and location: Institute for Community and Adolescent Resilience, Lidgerwood, North Dakota Web site address: www.icar-us.com Type of business: Helping kids succeed When did you officially…

  • A New Service for Solopreneurs: Listening

    Larry Keltto
    8 May 2012 | 1:09 am
    Through working with solopreneurs and being a solopreneur, I’ve learned that sometimes — oftentimes! — we need a person who will listen, a person who understands this wacky, wonderful life we’ve chosen. Oftentimes we don’t need advice. We don’t need coaching. We don’t want criticism. We don’t want to be judged. We don’t want marketing expertise. We need and want someone who will listen — carefully and intently. I’d Rather Be a Speaker! I was given the gift of listening. Truth be told, I wish I possessed the gift of speaking,…

  • The Imagination: How Important Is It? How Do You Make It a Force for Good?

    Larry Keltto
    2 May 2012 | 1:38 pm
    “All successful men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.” — Brian Tracy “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” — Michelangelo “Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” — Simone Weil Consider the quote above from Simone Weil: three-quarters of our life is spent on imagination and fiction! That’s extraordinary! Now think about this question:…
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    StatSpotting!

  • What Is The Population of The Bay Area?

    junior
    14 May 2012 | 10:50 pm
    This is a question we had in our mind for quite some time – we keep calling it the heart of the tech world, silicon valley etc – how many people are there in the Bay Area, anyways? We spotted this today: “Today, the Bay Area has about 7 million residents. In a free housing market, the population of the San Francisco Bay Area would have been growing rapidly over the last two decades. For example, between 1900 and 1920, the growth of the auto industry helped the population of the Detroit metro area nearly triple, from 540,000 people to 1.4 million people. If the San Francisco…

  • Which European Country Is The Most Hard Working?

    junior
    14 May 2012 | 5:43 pm
    If you just base it on what you have been hearing, you will never guess this one. We spotted this amazing fact today: “Figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) show that the average Greek worker toils away for 2,017 hours per year which is more than any other European country. Out of the 34 members of the OECD, that is just two places behind the board leaders, South Korea. On the other hand, the average German worker – normally thought of as the very epitome of industriousness – only manages 1,408 hours a year. Germany is 33rd out of 34…

  • NYC Taxi Cab Touch Screen Payment: Tips Went Up By $144,146,165

    junior
    13 May 2012 | 11:56 am
    Once in a while we spot some amazing stat that makes you think for a couple of minutes about how effective something – some process, system, scheme – has been. We spotted this today: “In 2007, NYC forced cab drivers to begin taking credit cards, which involved installing a touch screen system for payment. During payment, the user is presented with three default buttons for tipping: 20%, 25%, and 30%. When cabs were cash only, the average tip was roughly 10%. After the introduction of this system, the tip percentage jumped to 22%. Those three buttons resulted in $144,146,165…

  • Vacation Stats: American Households To Spend About $1,200 Per Person on Summer Vacations

    junior
    10 May 2012 | 3:37 pm
    We had spotted some interesting stats on the amount spent on coffee and the amount spent on lunch – we spotted this today: “American households expect to spend about $1,200 per person on summer vacations, according to a just released American Express survey. Assuming a median household income of roughly $50,000 a year and an average household size of two to three people, that translates to an estimate of 5% to 7% of income going toward vacations.” Statistics Source: CNN Money For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on…

  • Vehicle Sales Statistics: 80 Million Cars and Trucks To Be Sold This Year

    junior
    10 May 2012 | 3:31 pm
    We had spotted some interesting stats on the total number of cars in the US – we spotted this today: “In a world of large numbers, try wrapping your head around these digits: This year, the world is expected to set a new record with the sale of 80 million cars and trucks. Let me put that into perspective: - Annual sales: 80 million - Daily sales: 219,178 - Sales per hour: 9,132 - Sales per minute: 152 ” Statistics Source: CNBC 152 units per minute. wow. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter
 
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    Smedio

  • The 7 Levels of Influence in the Attention Economy

    Douglas Idugboe
    16 May 2012 | 1:01 am
    In today’s digital age, the world is fast evolving into a large global attention economy. Whether it’s an individual or a business, the kind of influence you have on others gains paramount importance. So, how do you determine what kind of influence you have on others? While there are services such as Klout which provide a good indication of your level of influence, it is largely based on your social media influence only. Last week, I posted a video about the 3 rules of engagement in the attention economy. In this post, I talk about the 7 levels of influence that you need to be aware of in…

  • Business Lessons From The Yahoo CEO Resume Controversy

    Douglas Idugboe
    15 May 2012 | 1:02 am
    Once upon a time, Yahoo was my favorite company – great leadership, oozing investor confidence and innovative products built on cutting-edge technology. However, over the years, Yahoo’s fortunes have dwindled and the company is no longer reminiscent of its golden days. To make matters worse, Yahoo hasn’t been able to find an able leader who can turn its fortunes around. When Yahoo instilled Scott Thomson as its new CEO, there were rumors of employee discontent hitting a new high. As things turned out, Thomson claimed to have earned a Computer Science degree while his degree was in…

  • How to Use Social Media as a Portfolio Tool

    Douglas Idugboe
    14 May 2012 | 4:55 am
    There’s no doubt about it. Today’s generation clamors for interactivity. No longer satisfied with allowing the television set to continue on its own monologue, consumers now appreciate the ability to connect with companies directly and whenever they choose to, through social media. Sites like Twitter and Facebook have contributed to the overall popularity of social media. Their growth points to the fact that social media taps into the consumer’s desire to engage with companies on a more personal level. Social media also appeals to the intrinsic need for human connection,…

  • Why You Shouldn’t Abandon Email Marketing for Social Media

    Douglas Idugboe
    11 May 2012 | 2:47 am
    Social Media or Email Marketing – what works better for online marketing? Should they be used together or are they purely mutually exclusive? The question to these answers is not as simple as it may seem. More and more email marketers are joining the social media bandwagon to cope with digital marketing revolution. I believe that to be a successful online marketer, you need to use the best of both worlds – email marketing as well as social media. Why Email Marketing Rules? I believe that Email Marketing provides massive untapped potential to reach out to prospect customers in a more…

  • How to Leverage Google Hangouts On Air For Your Business

    Douglas Idugboe
    10 May 2012 | 2:04 am
    Last year, I exhaustively wrote about several aspects of Google+ including how you can leverage Google+ Hangouts for your business as well as make the most of the lethal combo of Google+ and Google Apps. While Google+ Hangouts proved to be effective, there was one major drawback – it wasn’t directly possible to stream hangouts live on air. Though several third party providers offered this service, the writing was on the wall that Google+ would need it to transform Hangouts into a serious business communication tool. And that’s precisely what Google did earlier this week by introducing…
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    Arbitrage Magazine | Business News with BITE.

  • Would any of the G.I.P.S.I. countries improve their economic fate by leaving the Euro behind?

    Admin-Liana
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Exploring the Currency debate in Europe Written by Exequiel Octavio Bertaina, Vice-Managing Editor If Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain or Ireland were to abandon the Euro, their structural problems would not disappear overnight; they could actually become worse. For simplicity’s sake, Greece will be used as an example. If Greece were to leave the Euro behind, we would initially expect the new Drachma currency to devalue such as was the case in Argentina in 2001. For investors outside of Greece paying in euros or other currencies, suddenly Greek assets would look relatively inexpensive…

  • Baby Boomers, Businesses and Retirement: The importance of having an exit strategy

    Admin-Liana
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Planning is key to a Successful Future Written by Megan Harris Kelly Hubert, President of Murphy Canada Selling a business is not an easy task. Baby Boomers are reaching retirement age, and many of them are now looking to sell their businesses. The transition into retirement from entrepreneurship is not an easy one, but with the right preparation, it can be successful. Arbitrage Magazine recently spoke to Kelly Hubert, President of Murphy Business Canada, one of North America’s largest business brokerage firms, about the importance of Baby Boomers having an exit strategy when planning their…

  • The Viral Impact of YouTube on Culture & Business

    ARB_Admin
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    By Zack Larmand, Online Staff Writer It has only been six years, but in that time span YouTube has made a significant impact on our world. By providing a way for people to share videos, YouTube has introduced viral videos and made them a part of our global culture. These videos can touch us, make us laugh, inform us and even market to us. This ability to go viral extends from culture, directly into the business world as companies take advantage of YouTube for this very quality. The qualities that make a video viral are far from an exact science. Humor is a very big part of many of the famous…

  • Charmed into Being (Un)Human

    Admin-Liana
    15 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    The pleasure and growing popularity of suspending disbelief Via virginsuicide photography, flickr By Shruti Desai, Staff Writer Kickin’ it in our imagination has hardly been more possible. Nor has it felt more real, accepted, and quite possibly, fundamental to daily life. In the thump of a heartbeat, you can be a vegetarian vampire, a pure-blood wizard, a hopelessly shirtless werewolf, a curly-haired hobbit, a meddlesome elf, or even – though consider it carefully – a human.  With post-graduate job-searching proving to be a full-time and often fruitless ordeal, I rather enjoy this…

  • Rumor Has It: Celebrity Culture Is Out To Get Us

    Admin-Elizabeth
    13 May 2012 | 7:00 am
    Our need for celebrity fluff keeps us cut off from what really matters. By: Ellen Steven, staff writer Gossip culture didn’t just ruin high school, it’s ruining our generation. The media hooks us with reality TV shows at an early age, feeding us success stories about average Joes. Ellis Cashmore, Culture Media & Sports, Staffordshire University says “Britain’s Got Talent and other young children reality shows are a global business. There is a huge market for kid shows. The more the media supplies the more the target wants it.” All these things make sure we keep chasing the fame…
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    LogiXML

  • LOOK OUT! Landmines You’re Likely to Encounter in Your BI Project

    Matthew Pugh, Director of Communications
    11 May 2012 | 9:24 am
    The business intelligence (BI) vendor selection process can be long, confusing, and complex. Aspects of any BI solution, such as performance, implementation, and long-term costs, are often discussed at a high level, but the details are often missing until the end stages, when dealing with them can be a much bigger pain. Even when discussed, some details are often over-looked or forgotten until it’s too late. Digging into the details as early as possible is necessary to uncover these late-stage landmines. If you want to learn more about common landmines you may encounter and how to avoid…

  • LogiXML Wins at Midsize Enterprise Summit East

    Matthew Pugh, Director of Communications
    2 May 2012 | 1:03 pm
    Earlier this week, LogiXML attended the Midsize Enterprise Summit East (MES) in the Big Easy. At this XChange company event, IT executives – particularly CIOs – had the opportunity to learn about the latest Gartner Midmarket research that can help them build better business value, and to meet with leading technology providers to see how their solutions could take their businesses to the next level. Joining us at the conference was Alicia Loughnane, IT director with Grand Crowne Resorts, who presented to IT executives on how her company achieved a 10x ROI in just 90 days using…

  • Data Access Proliferation and Your Business Intelligence Apps

    David Abramson, Dir. Product Management
    27 Apr 2012 | 8:23 am
    The topic of data access seems to be popping up more and more in realms outside of the traditional enterprise and application-oriented business intelligence (BI) use-cases.   One of the key drivers behind this has been the proliferation of data sets that are made publicly available by governments and other public organizations worldwide. This open data trend has been a boon to the growing community of data scientists, application developers, and data geeks out there, making them able to play with and develop highly useful and insightful data visualizations on an incredibly wide variety of…

  • A Perfect Marriage for Better Healthcare: Six Sigma and Active Analytics

    Chor-Ching Fan, Sr. Director, Product Management
    25 Apr 2012 | 8:34 am
    If you haven’t been keeping up with the analytics market in general, a plethora of analytics initiatives are getting underway in healthcare.  The rise of the accountable care organization, imminent requirements around demonstrating meaningful use, and the constant pursuit of growth and excellence are just a few key drivers.  Whether the entity is payor, care provider, technology provider, or life sciences company, healthcare leaders across the board are now engaging in the most significant round of efforts focused healthcare operations and metrics in history.  The stakes are higher than…

  • LogiXML Resource Center: Your One-Stop Shop for All Things BI

    Matthew Pugh, Director of Communications
    24 Apr 2012 | 12:35 pm
    Making sense of the business intelligence (BI) world can be tricky. The BI market is growing at a staggering rate, and it’s often difficult to wade through the resulting clutter in order to get straight-forward answers to your questions about the industry. The LogiXML Resource Center was designed to help visitors obtain the right information and guidance to help them make better decisions about BI. In the LogiXML Resource Center, you will find white papers such as 5 BI Project Landmines to Avoid, analyst reports such as the Gartner 2012 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms,…
 
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    InterCall Blog

  • Growing Your Business

    Tonya Hottmann
    10 May 2012 | 3:35 pm
    Looking to revitalize your company’s growth? Today’s economy presents a whole new set of obstacles for business owners, often making it difficult to remain focused on a daily basis. In the midst of all of this challenge and change, it’s...

  • The Name Says It All

    James Whitemore
    24 Apr 2012 | 1:33 pm
    Smoothstone IP Communications, a leading provider of cloud-based communications for the enterprise, was acquired by West Corporation in June 2011. Since then, Smoothstone and West worked together to align the cloud-based products and services with West’s other subsidiaries, including InterCall....

  • How Can Your Small Businesses Get More Hours Out of the Day?

    Tonya Hottmann
    18 Apr 2012 | 11:42 am
    Almost half of all small businesses list time as their most valuable asset. Many entrepreneurs wear multiple hats simultaneously, juggling everything from sales to management to operations just to get their businesses up and growing. InterCall now offers Microsoft® Office...

  • Training Corporate Workers Like Fighter Pilots

    Eric Vidal
    16 Apr 2012 | 10:44 am
    When I talk to customers and prospects, one of their biggest challenges is training: getting new and existing customers, employees and partners up to speed on the latest information so they can all be prepared to do their jobs in...

  • Duct Tape Marketing: 7 Steps to Marketing Success

    Tonya Hottmann
    11 Apr 2012 | 11:05 am
    What is the fastest way to make your business grow? Many small businesses believe that success hinges on the efficient implementation of financial, operational and sales processes within their organizations. While these procedures will help to keep your business running,...
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  • Toronto Business Lawyer

    22 Apr 2012 | 4:52 pm
    Jonathan Kleiman Toronto Business Lawyer Small Claims Court 101 Yorkville Ave., Suite 201 Toronto, ON M5R 1C1
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    Red Wing Software Blog

  • National Limerick Day!

    My name
    14 May 2012 | 8:07 am
    Guess what, May 12th is National Limerick Day! In honor of the occasion, here is a limerick to brighten your day. If it’s profits that make your heart sing, Then a budget might just be your thing. So make a plan of where to spend Follow it and try not to bend Then savings and profits you’ll bring. Happy National Limerick Day!

  • Stop Payroll Time Wasters

    My name
    10 May 2012 | 8:56 am
    Sometimes we do something the same way for so long, that we don’t realize there is a much more efficient way to accomplish it. Even when we know there is something better, it’s hard to make the switch. Change can be hard. But if there is clearly a faster and more efficient way of getting your payroll done, you could save yourself wasted time and agony. Here are some of the top time wasters when it comes to payroll processing. Double entry If your employees are filling out a time sheet, and then you are taking that data and entering it by hand into a payroll system, you are double…

  • Voiding Checks in Accounting Software

    My name
    4 May 2012 | 9:12 am
    Learn why voiding checks is important within your accounting software, and also the general process for voiding checks. A check should be voided if you still have the check in hand, and the check amount is incorrect, it was issued to the wrong vendor or bank, or the invoice should not have been paid. Once a check has been voided, a record of that transaction remains in the system. If you have already sent out the check, you should only void the check if they never received it, and you need to send a new one. The void check function is used to cancel an existing payment transaction. If the…

  • Comparative Analysis

    My name
    30 Apr 2012 | 12:23 pm
    In most industries, and even non-business related activities, there are tools you can use to compare how you’re doing to some compilation of data from other similar ventures. While I believe comparative analysis is certainly something that should be considered, a more important measurement is how you are doing in your own world today and your individual trends over time. I’ll share a few personal and business examples of average statistics that aren’t necessarily good numbers to shoot for. A golfer on the PGA tour usually puts a new ball in play every few holes of a golf…

  • Post Season Tips for Business Owners by FoxBusiness.com

    My name
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:12 am
    Here are some useful post season tax tips for business owners by FoxBusiness.com! http://smallbusiness.foxbusiness.com/finance-accounting/2012/04/27/post-tax-season-tips-for-business-owners/
 
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    spendradar.com

  • How Spend Radar Performs Spend Data Refreshes

    Joy McCaffrey
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 pm
    SpendZen The Zen of all things Spend.Even though I've worked here for about a year and a half now, and even though I've talked about how we refresh data, today is the first time I've seen a refresh performed. The steps involved were: Confirm that we received updated data from customer on our secure FTP site Log in to our Data Manager module Click a few check boxes Click Run Depending on the amount of data that was included in the data file, it may take several hours to actually process the data, but for this refresh in particular, that's the extent of the work involved in our refresh process.

  • Unfettered Spend Data Analysis – Spend Analysis for Beginners

    Marianna Kajpust
    3 May 2012 | 10:33 am
    SpendZen The Zen of all things Spend. Tip number two from “10 Tips for More Valuable Spend Intelligence” – Collect All Data for Unfettered Analysis. Well, I guess let’s start with what unfettered means and then we can tie this into spend analysis. The word “unfettered” means free or unrestrained. Why would it be more valuable for a company to use “unfettered analysis”? There is so much more insight out there by collecting data from all sources, providing a much more detailed line item description. For example, traditional spend analysis tools…

  • What Does Amazon Supply Mean to the Business Supply Chain?

    Ashley Li
    27 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    SpendZen The Zen of all things Spend.With the debut of Amazon Supply, Amazon finally made its move into B2B marketplace on 4/23/2012. Being a fanatic of Amazon, innovation, and disruptive technology, I was thrilled.   It keeps me thinking in the past couple days: what does Amazon Supply mean to the Business Supply Chain? It definitely means so much more than just new competition to industrial distributors and threat to eProcurement solution providers. It is going to be as revolutionary as Amazon to the book distribution industry, or online retail, in general. Amazon is a brilliant…

  • The Black Box Syndrome - Spend Analysis for Beginners

    Marianna Kajpust
    25 Apr 2012 | 2:00 pm
    SpendZen The Zen of all things Spend.Our CEO and COO wrote a paper 10 Tips for More Valuable Spend Intelligence and since I’m new to spend analysis, this seemed like a good place for me to start. The first tip is Avoid the Black Box Syndrome. A black box to me simply means a box filled with “something” that you are not able to clearly see. If it was a white box, I would imagine the inside would be more visible to the eye, it would be fully transparent. With that being said, how does this relate to spend analysis? Well, let’s take a look at current spend analysis tools.

  • Are You New to Spend Analysis? So Am I! Spend Analysis for Beginners.

    Marianna Kajpust
    19 Apr 2012 | 10:00 am
    SpendZen The Zen of all things Spend.I have been in the banking industry for the past eight years with little spend analysis knowledge. As a new employee of Spend Radar, I have taken the initiative to really dive into spend analysis trying to figure out exactly what it is and how it can improve the bottom line of a company. Spend analysis simply put is gathering information about spend and then analyzing this information for the overall benefit of a company. For example, spend analysis can help a company negotiate better rates when making purchases. While the definition I have provided is…
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    Sales Intelligence Blog by Lattice Engines

  • Lattice Engines Named Finalist for Most Innovative Tech Company in the 2012 American Business Awards

    Kathy Mammon
    15 May 2012 | 9:21 am
    Lattice Engines, the pioneer in big data for sales, today announced that it has been named a finalist in the 2012 American Business Awards in the category of Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year. Inclusion in the American Business Awards, the nation’s premier business awards program, signifies Lattice Engines’ leadership in the market as one of the fastest growing and most innovative technology companies of the year.  Lattice Engines’ big data for sales platform, salesPRISM, arms front-line sales professionals with real-time, predictive and actionable insight, impacting…

  • Retaining Assets: How Big Data Can Stem Big Redemptions

    Alicia Brayboy
    9 May 2012 | 5:57 pm
    The years ahead look challenging for asset managers. In addition to the ongoing structural shift in asset flows stemming from baby-boomer retirement, continued stresses in the global economy makes it even more difficult for firms to increase assets. In a world with low net inflows, the competition to grab share of a fixed or shrinking pie will increase. Firms  will evaluate all the levers they have in their arsenal to capture asset share. As always, fund performance, particularly with respect to peer categories, will be a major factor, as will asset acquisition. But what else can asset…

  • Lattice Engines Presents at the ICI 54th Annual General Membership Meeting

    Kathy Mammon
    8 May 2012 | 8:00 am
    fundPRISM for asset management delivers the power of predictive analytics to front-line wholesalers. Lattice Engines, the pioneer in big data for sales, announced today that it will be exhibiting at the Investment Company Institute’s 54th Annual General Membership Meeting on May 9 -11, 2012 in Washington, D.C. at booth #100. The explosive growth of available data about financial advisors contains invaluable intelligence for frontline sales teams.  Lattice Engines helps asset management firms tap into the power of big data to operationalize a data-driven approach to selling.  Using…

  • The Algebra of Success in Business Banking

    Glenn Wong
    3 May 2012 | 10:48 am
    Last week Jeff Zamiska, Angel Reyes, and I were down in Atlanta at the Barlow Research 2012 Annual Client Conference, where we had the opportunity to meet past acquaintances and make new ones among the 100+ banking professionals.   Glenn Wong presents on the future of Business Banking The famous Lattice Engines Rubik's cube As a conference sponsor, we joined about half a dozen other organizations that had a booth presence, and during the informal drinks and meals we enjoyed talking to attendees about our company and salesPRISM.  Furthermore, we participated in the conference’s…

  • The Roadmap from Great Idea to Great Product

    Janet Lee
    20 Apr 2012 | 3:37 pm
    This is the first post in a series about a product manager’s perspective on the phases of new product development: idea to product, product to first customer, and first customer to a customer base.  I’ll discuss my personal perspective gathered from successes and scars earned at startups and more established companies where I’ve had the opportunity to build and launch multiple enterprise applications in various domains including ERP for process manufacturing, e-sourcing, retail optimization, and sales analytics and intelligence starting with just an idea. This post will discuss what…
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    The Secret Language of Money

  • ULYSSES CONTRACTS - Precommitment to a Future Self

    14 May 2012 | 10:27 am
    David Krueger MDUlysses, King of Ithica, and hero of the Trojan War, was on a protracted sea voyage after the war to go back to his home island of Ithica.  He had a rare opportunity ahead, in that his ship would pass the island where the beautiful Sirens sang melodies so luring that no one had been able to avoid their magnetic pull.  When they lured the sailors and their ships toward them, their ships were dashed on the rocks, drowning all aboard.Ulysses knew that, like everyone else, when he heard the music he would be unable to resist it.  But he created a present plan to…

  • Elite vs. Average Performance

    30 Apr 2012 | 10:53 am
    David Krueger MDAs I have collaborated with performing professionals – actors and professional athletes – I have learned increasingly about elite performance, and the factors that distinguish from average performance.  Colleagues who have also studied this area such as Geoffrey Colvin in his book Talent Is Overrated, inform this conversation. Professional athletes have specific challenges to regulate states of mind at transition times, such as the beginning of their pro career with the stimulation of fame and new wealth, and at retirement to deal with successful transitions…

  • Shopping Momentum and Money Psychology

    9 Apr 2012 | 9:53 am
    David Krueger MDThree groups of marketing researchers have a common finding and conclusion:  once someone purchases an item, they are far more likely to continue to purchase other items.  Shopping leads to more shopping.  This shopping momentum is a two-stage process.  Initially a shopper decides whether to purchase the first item, takes time, weighs pros and cons.  After this initial deliberation phase, once the shopper has made the decision to buy, significantly less effort is put into evaluating subsequent purchases on the same trip.  The initial purchase…

  • The Neuroscience of Change: 3 Steps to Rewire Your Brain

    8 Feb 2012 | 10:04 am
    David Krueger MDVictor Frankel was a Jewish psychiatrist in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II.  While death was certain, he observed that about 1 out of 25 of his fellow prisoners somehow managed to survive.  He set about studying the characteristics of those who survived. He found that it was what the survivors associated to that made the difference in their survival.  While 24 out of every 25 focused on their pain and inevitable death, those who survived created meaning – a purpose – for their suffering, rather than accepting their fate and wondering…

  • Special Report: Inside the Brain of a Super Bowl Champion

    6 Feb 2012 | 11:37 am
    David Krueger MDWith 64 seconds remaining in the Giants – Patriots Super Bowl Game, the Giants were trailing the Patriots 17-15, and were within striking distance to score.  With an immediate Giants score, the Patriots would get the ball back, and have time to attempt a scoring drive.  So the Giants wanted to score, but first use up most of the time remaining on the clock.  The Patriots needed the Giants to score immediately, so they would have enough time remaining to mount a drive to keep hope alive for winning the game.  The Giant’s Ahmad Bradshaw was handed…
 
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    Dashboard Insight

  • MicroStrategy’s Best Dashboard Contest… Win an Apple TV®!

    4 May 2012 | 12:57 pm
    MicroStrategy is currently accepting entries for our Best Cloud Personal Dashboard Contest. Entries will be judged on creativity, clarity, usefulness, and content.

  • Sales Forecast Analysis

    4 May 2012 | 6:54 am
    For any Sales team manager, a high level overview of the combined performance for the entire team is important. The ability to assess revenue trends collectively across a multitude of variables such as geography, time periods, forecast types etc., is equally imperative.

  • How To Tackle The Big Data Challenge (Part 1)

    1 May 2012 | 5:15 am
    Big data is a term getting bandied about a lot these days. It describes the phenomenon of information that keeps growing in organizations, thanks in part to the growth in social media. According to the InformationWeek Research: The Big Data Management Challenge...

  • 4 C’s of Big Data Process

    26 Apr 2012 | 5:21 am
    Nowadays, there are two topics that I'm very passionate about. The first, the fact that spring is finally here and it's time to dust off my clubs to take in my few first few rounds of golf. The second topic that I’m currently passionate about is the research I've been doing around the connection between big data and big process.

  • Transforming Big Data Challenges Into Opportunities

    24 Apr 2012 | 4:28 am
    We create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data every day, according to IBM, with 90 percent of the data in the world created in the last two years alone. What does this mean in context? Every hour...
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    Black Swan Insights

  • Tuesday Wrap: False Flags, Gold, and a Few Sex Tips

    NHC
    8 May 2012 | 7:21 pm
    1. Underwear Bomber Was CIA Informer--CBS--getting very old. Government recruits,finances, trains would be terrorist, then sweeps in at the last moment to save the world..  2. Gold Bull Market Not Dead Just Yet--Forbes 3. You slept naked in my bed. Unfortunately, you were in the wrong apt. (Craigslist) 4. So You Wanna See Some Really Ugly Buildings?--Reuters 5. For the Ladies--Blow Job Tips and Tricks--(Savvy)--women need to brush up on the basics Question of the Day: What kind of kinky sexual activity does CNBC's Becky Quick have to do to keep getting those exclusive interviews…

  • Buying GLD: A Golden Opportunity For Contrarian Investors

    NHC
    8 May 2012 | 6:00 pm
    Back from hiatus. As frequent readers will remember, gold remains a core part of my portfolio (since the beginning of QE madness from the FED). However, from time to time I will take a trading position in the yellow metal when opportunities present themselves. Well, that time is now upon us. I am buying GLD. Why? Gold has been in a downtrend since reaching its high back in 2011 around $1913. Recent selling has been initiated on the (I believe) false assumption that QE 3 is off the table. Wrong! Another month of weak unemployment numbers will almost certainly force the Fed into more QE (maybe…

  • Head and Shoulders Top on Silver Wheaton (SLW)

    NHC
    2 Oct 2011 | 5:54 pm
    My silver bug friends are going to hate me for this, but it looks like Silver Wheaton (SLW) is completing a massive 11 month head and shoulders top formation. If this pans out, the price target is around $15, which would suggest a steep 50% decline for the stock. See weekly chart below Along with a strong bearish technical pattern, SLW has weak fundamentals. The price of silver is falling with the whole commodity complex as the world starts to price in a collapse of the euro and a hard landing in China. Silver is now below its 200 day moving average and officially in a bear market (20% off…

  • Scared Shitless: Investment Manager Sentiment Plummets to March 2009 Levels

    NHC
    29 Sep 2011 | 2:16 pm
    Considering that the market has done nothing for the last few weeks, except bounce up and down in a very tight range, one would think that sentiment has cooled off from August's market crash. You would be wrong. The NAAIM sentiment survey released today shows that investment managers are practically on the ledge and ready to jump to their own deaths to escape this vicious market turmoil. Apparently, they just realized that their end of year bonus is not going to be filled with gold or jewels, but instead with a lump of coal thanks to their poor performance. NAAIM sentiment came in at…

  • Quick Update: Closing Sugar Short

    NHC
    27 Sep 2011 | 1:11 pm
    All good trades must come to and end as they say. The time has come for my Sugar short. I caught a nice 14% downside move that was pretty much straight down. It would be piggish of me to press the short any further. When you trade on leverage, you cannot risk a large oversold bounce (you never know if it is the beginning of a large move higher or just a technical bounce). So why did this trade work so well? Luck. When I shorted sugar the fundamentals were beginning to sour along with a negative technical backdrop. Furthermore, all soft commodities were weak during this period, which pressured…
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    Advantis Communications

  • Are you “BranchingOut”?

    Ernesta Rossi
    23 Apr 2012 | 9:05 am
    A social network within a social network? You may have heard the growing chatter about BranchOut—with 25 million users, it’s the biggest professional network on Facebook and leaves some people asking the question: “Is LinkedIn in trouble?” How do job seekers use BranchOut? BranchOut is a business networking application on Facebook. When you register, you [...]

  • Be a Part of Something Big: PR Career Opportunity

    Ernesta Rossi
    16 Feb 2012 | 12:55 pm
    Job Description Are you ready to accelerate your learning and make things happen? If not, this opportunity isn’t for you. Advantis Communications, an award-winning, boutique public relations and content marketing agency is on the hunt for the consummate B2B PR and media relations professional who takes pride in their work. Our Canadian and US clients [...]

  • Public Relations and Social Media Intern Opportunity

    Ernesta Rossi
    16 Feb 2012 | 9:42 am
    If you have a background in PR and social media, love all things digital and have a passion for achieving excellence on every project, check out this awesome internship opportunity at Advantis Communications! Advantis Communications is an award-winning, boutique business-to-business public relations and content marketing agency. We’re seeking a big-brained, business savvy intern to assist [...]

  • Five Behaviours Communicators Need to Change

    Cyrus Mavalwala
    19 Jan 2012 | 4:25 am
    The IABC Canada Western Region Conference was a chance to experience “The Best of the Best” speakers in a beautiful setting – Whistler, BC. I was fortunate to be invited to present along with other highly rated speakers such as William Amurgis, Steve Crescenzo, Kellie Garrett, ABC, Donna Papacosta, Mark Schumann, ABC, and Suzanne Salvo. [...]

  • 6 Questions to Ask Before Jumping into an e-Book

    Ernesta Rossi
    22 Dec 2011 | 2:33 pm
    This guest post is by Barb Sawyers, who helps experts pull ideas out of their heads and onto the page through her book, Write Like You Talk—Only Better. If you’re thinking about diving into the fast-growing medium of ebooks, here are six questions to ask before you take the plunge: 1. What is your objective? [...]
 
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    KPI Library - Recent Expert Blog Articles

  • David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization

    16 May 2012 | 3:53 am
    David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.

  • The New Strategic Imperative - Dual Value Propositions

    16 May 2012 | 12:35 am
    When it comes to answering the all-important strategic question of “What is our value proposition?” I’ve always believed any private, public sector or nonprofit organization should choose one of three possibilities: operational excellence (resulting in low costs), product leadership (best product, often achieved through constant innovation), or customer intimacy (best service/best relationship). This rationale, one shared by many experts, is that focusing on more than one at the same time will lead to contradictory investment choices, misaligned processes, and ultimately produce a fog…

  • Check out Topdesk KPI solution and join us at Topdesk Symposium

    15 May 2012 | 7:44 am
    We are at the Topdesk Symposium today on May 15. Topdesk is one of our OEM partners. Topdesk delivers a KPI solution on-top of their service management application that provides insight in business metrics for Topdesk customers in scorecards and dashboards. The solution is provided as a software-as-a-service, but can also be deployed as an on-premise application. For more information check out our Store. For more information on OEM opportunities check out our solutions.

  • Creating a Vision and Mission Statement

    14 May 2012 | 9:21 am
    I’ve been asked by the editor of Qualtiyworld to write a short piece on how you develop a company’s vision and mission. Here is a quick summary: Intelligent companies use mission and vision statements as powerful sign-posts that provide clear and succinct directions about the purpose and aspirations of the company. However, this will only the case if they are real and not just boring platitudes iterated by successive chief executives that say much the same things that other firms expound. Mission statement articulates the organisational purpose, basically why the company exists, what id…

  • 3 Questions to Design Your KPI Reports

    10 May 2012 | 8:38 am
    Unless your performance reports are focused on answering three critical questions, they’re likely to bore you sleep, lead you astray, or confuse the begeesus out of you. Question 1: What is performance really doing? This doesn’t mean what is performance doing today, or what did it do last week? It means what is performance mostly likely to keep on doing if it’s left alone? To answer this question, your performance measures need to be displayed in graphs that show the natural variability in performance over time. That’s a new concept to many people, but it’s so very simple to do it.
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    The Performance Ideas Blog

  • IBM Vision 2012

    Christoph Papenfuss
    14 May 2012 | 5:05 pm
    IBM Vision 2012 Greetings from Orlando. I left Munich Saturday morning to attend the IBM Vision 2012 conference. This three day event for finance & risk management professionals will be exciting. There are fantastic keynotes lined up as well as a ton of awesome break-out sessions. I am really looking forward to it. Keynotes The keynotes at IBM Vision 2012 promise to be especially interesting this year. The list of external speakers includes John Hagerty from Gartner, book author Michael Mauboussin and Everest explorer Alison Levine. Of course, there are also exciting IBM speakers…

  • Part 2 – Interview with the TM1 book author. More about TM1

    Christoph Papenfuss
    10 May 2012 | 3:05 am
    Last Thursday, I posted an interview with the author of the new TM1 book Karsten Oehler. Here is the continuation of the conversation. This part of the interview focuses on the new IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 release. Christoph Papenfuss: IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 was released in February of 2012. What is so special about this release? Karsten Oehler: One of the central components of version 10.1 is a new modeling environment. It is called Performance Modeler. It really encourages finance and business professionals to develop their own models. Performance Modeler allows them to develop complex rules and…

  • 6 tips for combating public speaking nervousness

    Christoph Papenfuss
    8 May 2012 | 3:45 am
    A case of public speaking nervousness It was a regular workday for Tom. Things were going well for him and his career. Shortly after 5pm his boss called to ask him for a simple favor: to deliver one of their standard corporate presentations in front of 30 sales and marketing people from a different business unit the next day at 1pm. Most people dread presenting and so did Tom. He cancelled his get-together for the evening and didn’t go to bed until after midnight. He tossed and turned in anticipation of the next day. At 4am he finally gave up, showered and continued with his…

  • Interview with the TM1 book author: IBM Cognos TM1 – The Official Guide (Part 1)

    Christoph Papenfuss
    3 May 2012 | 3:05 am
    The new TM1 book The highly anticipated 10.1 version of IBM Cognos TM1 was released in February 2012. Along with the software there is also a great new TM1 book: IBM Cognos TM1 – The Official Guide. My German colleague Karsten Oehler is one of the authors of this comprehensive TM1 book. We had the opportunity to catch up last week. It was very early in the morning and we were both on our first cup of coffee. This is the first part of two short interviews. Check back Tuesday next week to read more. Christoph Papenfuss: Let’s start this discussion with an important question. TM1 is a…

  • You have ten minutes to complete that task! Working smarter not harder

    Christoph Papenfuss
    1 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    No more riots Today is May 1st. Most European countries are off work to remember labor day. May 1st is indeed a historical date. In 1886, workers in Chicago and other cities laid down their work to demand better working conditions including eight hour working days. The situation escalated over the next few days and several people died. The event is remembered as the Haymarket Riots. Since then working conditions have improved considerably. However, despite the standard eight hour working days, many of us are often forced to work more than that. There is just too much stuff. But longer hours…
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    CapTech Consulting Blogs

  • Death to PowerPoint: Data Visualization – A New Consulting Tool

    Jamie Jahn
    15 May 2012 | 2:34 pm
    As consultants we create and present an illegal number of PowerPoints, in part because it is a reliable and effective tool that we’ve become highly skilled at but also because it is the client’s preferred method of receiving information.  Presentations used to be set apart for helping executives make important decisions.  Now we spend most of our day sitting through presentations on status and having various pieces of information presented to us in bullet point format.  Using PowerPoint  as your primary method of sharing information dulls the effectiveness of the tool…

  • What is the value of your privacy?

    Bill Wooten
    14 May 2012 | 9:15 am
    Recently, a group of my CapTech colleagues met to discuss “Privacy and Big Data” by Terence Craig and Mary E. Ludloff.   A common theme throughout this discussion was the ethical use of personal data.

  • Best Practices for Managing a Shut Down

    Craig Thomas
    11 May 2012 | 12:48 pm
    If you are in business or projects for more than a few years, it is inevitable you are involved in an unfortunate event when a major business line, product, service, or project is shut down. These events are never fun and are most challenging to management. Team members are disappointed with the ending, they are uncomfortable with ambiguity, and they are unenthusiastic to continue their jobs and work on the shut down. Management must take great care to take care of customers, employees, and other stakeholders. Following are a few best practices to consider to effectively terminate operations.

  • Lean and Six Sigma: Two Peas is a Process Engineering Pod

    Kyle Fondren
    10 May 2012 | 4:24 pm
    Historically, both the Six Sigma and Lean methodologies have existed to serve the purpose of improving the operational effectiveness in a variety of businesses.  In the past, they have stood alone as methodologies.  The current trend is to combine Six Sigma and Lean, providing a greater toolset from which operational waste can be identified, measured, and improved.  Though the concepts behind Six Sigma and Lean are different, the two can, and arguably should, be used jointly. Six Sigma Reduces Variability The goal of Six Sigma is to reduce the variability in a process in order…

  • PM101 - Start With What You Know; Learn As You Go

    Rachel Dierking
    8 May 2012 | 8:25 pm
    While the PMI would like to believe that every project is clearly defined, with identified stakeholders, a detailed scope, and a realistic timeline, most of us know from experience that projects rarely work that way.  To add to the complexity, IT projects can involve a variety of specialty areas that encompass vast and varying knowledge sets (Java coding, data warehousing, business process development to name a few) .  For the average PM, it is impossible to know it all.  So, what do you do when you are asked to manage a project that is not completely scoped or is outside of…
 
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    The Performance Ideas Blog

  • IBM Vision 2012

    Christoph Papenfuss
    14 May 2012 | 5:05 pm
    IBM Vision 2012 Greetings from Orlando. I left Munich Saturday morning to attend the IBM Vision 2012 conference. This three day event for finance & risk management professionals will be exciting. There are fantastic keynotes lined up as well as a ton of awesome break-out sessions. I am really looking forward to it. Keynotes The keynotes at IBM Vision 2012 promise to be especially interesting this year. The list of external speakers includes John Hagerty from Gartner, book author Michael Mauboussin and Everest explorer Alison Levine. Of course, there are also exciting IBM speakers…

  • Part 2 – Interview with the TM1 book author. More about TM1

    Christoph Papenfuss
    10 May 2012 | 3:05 am
    Last Thursday, I posted an interview with the author of the new TM1 book Karsten Oehler. Here is the continuation of the conversation. This part of the interview focuses on the new IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 release. Christoph Papenfuss: IBM Cognos TM1 10.1 was released in February of 2012. What is so special about this release? Karsten Oehler: One of the central components of version 10.1 is a new modeling environment. It is called Performance Modeler. It really encourages finance and business professionals to develop their own models. Performance Modeler allows them to develop complex rules and…

  • 6 tips for combating public speaking nervousness

    Christoph Papenfuss
    8 May 2012 | 3:45 am
    A case of public speaking nervousness It was a regular workday for Tom. Things were going well for him and his career. Shortly after 5pm his boss called to ask him for a simple favor: to deliver one of their standard corporate presentations in front of 30 sales and marketing people from a different business unit the next day at 1pm. Most people dread presenting and so did Tom. He cancelled his get-together for the evening and didn’t go to bed until after midnight. He tossed and turned in anticipation of the next day. At 4am he finally gave up, showered and continued with his…

  • Interview with the TM1 book author: IBM Cognos TM1 – The Official Guide (Part 1)

    Christoph Papenfuss
    3 May 2012 | 3:05 am
    The new TM1 book The highly anticipated 10.1 version of IBM Cognos TM1 was released in February 2012. Along with the software there is also a great new TM1 book: IBM Cognos TM1 – The Official Guide. My German colleague Karsten Oehler is one of the authors of this comprehensive TM1 book. We had the opportunity to catch up last week. It was very early in the morning and we were both on our first cup of coffee. This is the first part of two short interviews. Check back Tuesday next week to read more. Christoph Papenfuss: Let’s start this discussion with an important question. TM1 is a…

  • You have ten minutes to complete that task! Working smarter not harder

    Christoph Papenfuss
    1 May 2012 | 9:05 am
    No more riots Today is May 1st. Most European countries are off work to remember labor day. May 1st is indeed a historical date. In 1886, workers in Chicago and other cities laid down their work to demand better working conditions including eight hour working days. The situation escalated over the next few days and several people died. The event is remembered as the Haymarket Riots. Since then working conditions have improved considerably. However, despite the standard eight hour working days, many of us are often forced to work more than that. There is just too much stuff. But longer hours…
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    Financial Awakening Blog - Real Estate Passive Income

  • High floors vs low floors in Condos

    albert
    8 May 2012 | 3:08 pm
    Author: Financial Awakening Blog If you still haven’t read Step 1 – Plan ahead. Imagine where you are when you retire, I highly recommend you to read it first. condo When it comes to condo pre construction investment, there is one decision you always need to make: Whether to pay for the premium and purchase a high floor unit or save the money and purchase a low floor unit. The answer would depend on what you need and what are you future plan for the unit. Let’s first look at the pros and cons of high floor and low floor respectively. High Floor in Condos Pros:  better views:…

  • Responsibility and Growth

    albert
    7 May 2012 | 3:34 pm
    Author: Financial Awakening Blog If you still haven’t read Step 1 – Plan ahead. Imagine where you are when you retire, I highly recommend you to read it first. With great power comes great responsbility If one live in a world without worry. Everything is taken care of by someone such as your parents, then there is nothing to worry about. And you can live happy ever after. Except if the one who take care of you pass away, then you start having everything to worry about. One question arise: How well should you protect your child? As parents, it is difficult to see your child in trouble…

  • Speak up for yourself and earn some respect

    albert
    2 May 2012 | 2:52 pm
    Author: Financial Awakening Blog If you still haven’t read Step 1 – Plan ahead. Imagine where you are when you retire, I highly recommend you to read it first. speak for yourself  If you want other people to respect you, you will have to earn it. If you do not speak up for yourself, people consider you stupid, and they will keep beating you. This is the conclusion I get from my experience. For example, my TV provider Rogers keep charging me more and more for what I do not need. They try to phase out analog and force everyone to use digital. The reason is not because the quality is…

  • Fighting an appeal with MPAC

    albert
    1 May 2012 | 3:56 pm
    Author: Financial Awakening Blog If you still haven’t read MPAC – Property Assessment and Tax, MPAC – The Wolf in Red Riding Hood or Fighting Assessment with MPAC, I highly recommend you to read it first. After you filed an appeal with MPAC, it is important to know what kind of tricks they can play on you in order to avoid it. After you filed an appeal with MPAC, try your best to get into the pre hearing stream instead of the direct hearing. Pre Hearing stream give you a chance to request some important information from MPAC before you head into the final hearing. Usually pre…

  • Things Not To Do When You Are in Financial Crisis

    Melissa
    27 Apr 2012 | 8:29 am
    Financial crisis is not an uncommon thing; it can hit even the most calculative person. Even if you have proper monthly budget, you save a lot and you never get impulsive while shopping you can fall prey to severe money crunch. Let’s not go deeper into the causes of financial problems; there can be many reasons. Let’s see what you should not do during such a crisis so that you do not make the situation worse. Here is a list of don’ts and corresponding do’s to help you get out of the situation quickly. Avoid excessive use of credit cards: You don’t have cash in hand; the only option…
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    Revolutions

  • How long before R overtakes SAS and SPSS?

    David Smith
    15 May 2012 | 5:37 pm
    Based on an analysis of Google Scholar data on usage of statistical software, Bob Muenchen makes a forecast: R will overtake SAS and SPSS in 2015. Forecasting is extrapolation — always a tricky business — so Bob also provides these qualitative reasons why R will continue to grow at the expense of SAS and SPSS: The continued rapid growth in add-on packages (Figure 10) The attraction of R’s powerful language The near monopoly R has on the latest analytic methods Its free price The freedom to teach with real-world examples from outside organizations, which is forbidden to academics by SAS…

  • Multiple Sclerosis Tweet-Chat: Review

    David Smith
    14 May 2012 | 5:55 pm
    We had a great Twitter conversation last Thursday on the use of big-data analytics, Revolution R Enterprise, and IBM Netezza in the search for a cure for MS. Many thanks to the other panelists: Murali Ramanathan (SUNY Buffalo), Tim Coetzee (National MS Society) and moderator Shawn Dolley (IBM) for fielding and answering questions from interested parties following #IBMDataChat. As you can see from this twitteR analysis, it was a lively discussion, with more than 300 tweets during the designated hour: IBM's James Kobielus has a summary of the chat, highlighting some of the key nuggets…

  • New courses from R gurus

    David Smith
    14 May 2012 | 5:27 pm
    Looking to learn R, or to expand your R skills for data visualization or package development? Here are some R courses presented by the experts you may be interested in: June 19-20: Visualization in R with ggplot2. This course presented by Garrett Grolemund & Dr. Winston Chang of Rice University is also a web-based course with live presentation. This course provides instruction on data visualization with R, including data transformation, visualization of Big Data and polishing graphics for presentation.   June 21-22 (in New York City) and June 28-29 (in Redwood City, CA): R Development…

  • Because it's Friday: Australian PSAs from the 80s

    David Smith
    11 May 2012 | 3:03 pm
    When I was a kid growing up in Australia, it seemed like every commercial break during the Saturday morning cartoon's or after-school shows was punctuated by some PSA encouraging us to lead a healthier life. These "community service announcements" were government-sponsored, and often paired a low-budget animations with a catchy jingle. Strangely enough, lots of Australians (me included) remember them fondly, and can still recite the songs on demand. Here are a few of my favourites: "Slip Slop Slap" made avoiding skin cancer fun (an important lesson in the Sunburnt…

  • Mariano Rivera’s baseball prowess, illustrated with R

    David Smith
    11 May 2012 | 1:57 pm
    Kevin Quealy, graphics editor at the New York Times, has published another fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how the Times creates data visualizations for print and online. In his latest post, he looks at how a visualization of the Yankee's Mariano Rivera performance compared to other Major League Baseball pitchers was created. (Detail below, click for the full image.)  The infographic began its life as a hand-drawn sketch, that begat a line-chart created using R (based on data scraped from the Web). The R chart was was then cleaned up and annotated using Adobe Illustrator for…
 
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    Localytics

  • Apps Give Listeners Radio Everywhere

    Daniel Ruby
    1 May 2012 | 12:00 pm
    The convenience of having your favorite local radio station in your pocket is resonating with listeners, according to our latest research. Over the past 12 months, use of radio-based mobile apps grew 33%. By instantly turning any iPhone, iPad or Android device into a “radio”, users can listen virtually anytime and anywhere. The accessibility and convenience of mobile both increases listening hours and extends reach beyond traditional broadcasting ranges. The convenience of radio anywhere “Our recently completed Techsurvey8 says a lot about the voracious appetite for all things…

  • Best Practices: Filters and Segments in App Analytics

    Daniel Ruby
    6 Apr 2012 | 10:14 am
    All Localytics Premium and Enterprise customers now have have access to filters in their Localytics dashboard. Just select a usage, engagement or event report, click filters, select a dimension and the specific values include or exclude in your analysis. Filters are easily combined with advanced segmenting options discover actionable insights and trends. Best practices example: Filtering regional editions Let’s take the example of a publisher that started in the US, but recently launched a new international edition of a popular magazine. The publisher wants to analyze audience and…

  • Only 6% of iPad App Sessions On Cellular Connection

    Daniel Ruby
    22 Mar 2012 | 1:48 pm
    Apple has reportedly sold over 3 million of the new, 3rd-generation iPads, whose main selling points are updated internals, a Retina display and available 4G LTE connectivity. The first two seem to be driving the quick sales, but the cellular-enabled variants seem to be comparatively unpopular, perhaps because of how quickly they are capable of crushing limited data plans. We looked into all iPad usage of apps with Localytics app analytics since the launch to see how many devices connected via a cellular network, and how often cellular-enabled iPads used 3G or 4G vs. WiFi.

  • News Apps 3x More Engaging than News Websites

    Daniel Ruby
    20 Mar 2012 | 12:00 pm
    Pew Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released their 2012 State of the News Media report this week. One of the findings, based on data from Localytics, was that people are much more loyal to news apps than to news websites. While news websites thrive on new inbound users, a news app’s user base is the organization’s most valuable, and success should be measured by retention and loyalty. Pew Research Center’s 2011 study showed how prevalent casual users are on news websites. Their data, provided in part by Nielsen, showed that nearly 70% of users went to a given news site…

  • Custom Dimensions for User Segmentation

    Daniel Ruby
    23 Feb 2012 | 1:37 pm
    Nobody knows your business better than you, so the ability to customize what you track is incredibly powerful. Custom dimensions, a feature of Localytics Enterprise app analytics, provides more control over the segmentation of your app user base. By building out these custom user segments, you can delve into user behaviors to find actionable insights on your most engaged and valuable users. Custom dimensions means custom user segments Certain dimensions are standard with Localytics – things like device, location, OS, new vs. returning and so on. Dimensions are then cross-tabulated,…
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