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  • SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublime - Register

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:58 pm
    SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublimeRegisterIt promises a number of things, including improved business intelligence through database changes and integration with Office as well as more scalability at Tableau Software Named 2009 SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best Award WinnerPR Newswire (press release)Strategy Companion's Analyzer Named 2009 Editors' Best Award Winner by SQL Your-Story.org (press release)all 16 news articles »

  • UK's Nottingham Trent U Builds Data Warehouse with IBM Cognos BI - Campus Technology

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:26 am
    SYS-CON Media (press release)UK's Nottingham Trent U Builds Data Warehouse with IBM Cognos BICampus TechnologyUK's Nottingham Trent University will be implementing a data warehouse built with Cognos 8 Business Intelligence from IBM to improve Nottingham Trent University Brings Greater Efficiency With IBM Business AnalyticsPR Newswire (press release)Helping customers use informationMyADSLIBM and Informatica Take Next Steps Toward Cloud DeliveryIntelligent EnterpriseSYS-CON Media (press release)all 17 news articles »

  • EMANIO Links Predictive Analytics with Business Intelligence - Daily Research News Online

    20 Nov 2009 | 10:54 am
    EMANIO Links Predictive Analytics with Business IntelligenceDaily Research News OnlineBusiness intelligence and data integration software firm EMANIO has developed two tools to help small and medium sized companies evaluate not just what has

  • Can salesforce.com Talk Its Way to Bigger Profits? - Motley Fool

    20 Nov 2009 | 8:18 am
    Ad-Hoc-News (Pressemitteilung)Can salesforce.com Talk Its Way to Bigger Profits?Motley FoolNot just a social network for salesforce.com users, Chatter proposes to blend feeds with document sharing and business intelligence. Cloud Computing: Where to Next?ReadWriteWeb (blog)Salesforce reveals enterprise collaboration with ChatterV3.co.ukall 261 news articles »

  • Nebraska Educational Service Unit #1 Selects inetsoft's BI Software - B-EYE-Network

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:41 am
    Nebraska Educational Service Unit #1 Selects inetsoft's BI SoftwareB-EYE-NetworkThe state organized support agency uses inetsoft's Style Scope business intelligence application to gain advanced analytics and reporting on student Interactive Dashboard for Black Friday Deals LaunchedEarthtimes (press release)all 5 news articles »
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  • Lucernex Technologies Hires Ken Brown as CIO and Executive Vice...

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:37 pm
    In this role, Brown will oversee the development of all Lucernex applications including the Lucernex Integrated Workplace Management System , which is currently managing hundreds of thousands of locations in the global retail, hospitality, engineering and construction industries, and Lucernex LseMod, which provides in-depth lease analytics for ...

  • COM.Geo 2010: 1st International Conference and Exhibition on Computing for Geospatial

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:13 pm
    Real Estate,Telecommunications,Local Government,Environmental,Retail,Public Safety,Public Health,Transportation / Public Trans,Utilities,Oil and Mineral Exploration,Cartography,Exploration / Mining,Federal Government,Forestry / Land Management,Restaurants / Entertainment,Wireless / Navigation,Geocoding,Law Enforcement,Location-based Services ...

  • SQL Server 2008 - from semi-relational to sublime

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:57 pm
    Review SQL Server 2008 R2 is a step closer to reality. On the heels of August's first code drop, Microsoft has released a second, more-fully-featured community technology preview of its next database server.

  • Enterprise Software sponsored by Novell

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:40 pm
    They strive to closely align IT infrastructure to the business and also face challenges to reduce costs.

  • Move Over BI, Here Comes PI - Performance Intelligence

    20 Nov 2009 | 4:38 pm
    Cloud Computing on Ulitzer "As companies such as MySpace continue to expand the richness of their site, the big thing is trying to seek a higher level of customer experience by replicating "beyond capacity" in a test environment, so that a company can see what it is exactly that they will need when traffic surges to peak levels and beyond, so that ...
 
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  • How Many American Men Will Be Arrested in Their Lifetimes?

    17 Nov 2009 | 6:54 pm
    My print column this week examines a surprising statistic: Over their lifetimes, American men have a 52% chance of being arrested. Though the estimate originated in 1965 crime data, which were incomplete, subsequent inquiries have come up with consistent findings. All the studies encountered a problem with American crime numbers: They’re based on reports from local law-enforcement agencies that may have widely different measurement and reporting standards. The Federal Bureau of Investigation strives to collate these in its Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), but as David Burnham, former…

  • If Statisticians Could Turn Back Time

    10 Nov 2009 | 5:29 pm
    My print column this week follows statistical time machines as they connect past and present in politics, science and sports. These can answer what-if questions, such as how today’s Supreme Court justices would have voted on past cases were they encountering them fresh, or how a prior generation’s best sluggers would cope with today’s pitchers. The answers are hardly definitive, but are better than guesswork and rely on the best available data and statistical techniques. The digitization of data and increases in computing power are fueling this work. For one paper,…

  • Cracking the Code Math for a Veto Message

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

  • When Numbers Add Up to More Than Math

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

  • Another Exaggerated Sex-Trade Stat

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

    Timo Elliott
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:48 am
    The first official SAP iPhone application is already available on iTunes. Unfortunately, it’s probably not much use to you unless you happen to be reading this in Brisbane, Australia. But the free application, created by the folks in the SAP Research center who brought you the Google Wave / SAP “Gravity” prototype, is a wonderful example of what Web 2.0 technology can do in today’s increasingly wired world. Here’s the blurb from the application’s page on iTunes that gives an overview of the application: Stuck in traffic? An event at Suncorp Stadium clogging up William Jolly…

  • SAP TechEd Vienna ‘09 Demo Jam

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

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

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

  • Blind (and Incompetent) Justice Thanks to Spreadsheet?

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

  • Integrating Live Twitter Streams into PowerPoint Using Xcelsius

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

    Stephen Few
    16 Nov 2009 | 10:18 am
    A few days ago I noticed a blog posted by Boris Evelson of Forrester Research titled “How to Differentiate Advanced Data Visualization Solutions.” Forrester is one of the leading IT research and advice companies. Along with its larger rival, Gartner, these companies serve as trusted advisers to thousands of organizations, helping them make decisions about all aspects of information technology. Although it’s convenient for Chief Information Officers (CIOs) to subscribe to a single service for all the advice they need, is this approach reliable? It depends on whether we…

  • Stacey Barr’s Performance Management Blueprint Workshop

    Stephen Few
    6 Oct 2009 | 9:42 am
    In my work at Perceptual Edge, I help organizations analyze their performance and present what they find in tables and graphs, which often involves dashboards. People who attend my courses in dashboard design often ask for help in figuring out how to measure the performance of their organizations. Until you know what aspects of performance to measure and how to measure them, you can’t even begin to develop a dashboard. I don’t cover this important aspect of performance management in my work, but others do, including Stacey Barr, the Performance Measurement Specialist.

  • Malcolm Gladwell, modern problems, and the analytics age

    Stephen Few
    21 Sep 2009 | 11:43 am
    I had the great pleasure last Thursday of hearing Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author of the books Outliers, Blink, and The Tipping Point, speak at SAS Institute’s Innovators’ Summit in Chicago. I gave one of two keynote presentations in the morning and Gladwell gave the keynote in the afternoon. I believe that Gladwell is one of the great thinkers and communicators of our time, and his words on Thursday afternoon led me to believe this even more fervently. Gladwell’s topic was well-chosen for a group of people who spend their time making sense of data (mostly…

  • Data Visualization: Keeping the Story Straight

    Stephen Few
    14 Sep 2009 | 11:01 am
    Not long ago, BusinessWeek published a story titled “Data Visualization: Stories for the Information Age” by Maria Popova (self-described as a “digital anthropologist, cultural curator and semi-secret geek aggregating the world’s eclectic interestingness”). The article featured the work of Aaron Koblin of Google’s Creative Labs (self-described as an “artist/designer/programmer”). Popova and Koblin bring fresh perspectives to data visualization, but they are newcomers to the field and have both made statements about it that demonstrate their lack…

  • Head First Data Analysis

    Stephen Few
    26 Aug 2009 | 11:53 am
    I recently took a look at a new book from O’Reilly Media that’s a thoughtful introduction to the general concepts of data analysis. Unlike most books on data analysis, this is not software-specific and it does not focus on some complicated aspect of statistical or financial analysis. The book is Head First Data Analysis by Michael Milton. In its Head First series, O’Reilly is trying to provide books that introduce computer-related topics in a way that speaks to the way our brains learn. These books teach the material using real-world scenarios with lots of activities to…
 
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  • Why Health Care Reform Is Vulnerable to Smart Analytics

    Tom Davenport
    19 Nov 2009 | 8:13 am
    Insurance — and health insurance in particular — has long been about the pooling of risk. It may be impossible to know what diseases and accidents will befall a particular individual, but if the risk is spread over a large pool, the cost of insuring the entire group is close to average. Therefore, when a company or organization seeks health insurance for a large group of employees, the particular attributes of those employees aren't usually assessed in detail. Increasingly, however, life and property & casualty insurers have attempted to increase their profits by predicting just…

  • The US Is GM

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

  • Forwarding Is the New Networking

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

  • Are Social Media Contributing to the Decline of Civilization?

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 10 Questions with Bruce Armstrong, CEO Kickfire

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

  • 13% achieve BI objectives

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

  • The Net Generation

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

    Ted Cuzzillo
    16 Nov 2009 | 11:08 pm
    Here’s that eternal question again: how do you know when whatever you’re working on is good enough? Today, two perspectives. The Oscar-winning sound designer Walter Murch, speaking Friday night at the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael California, told about talking shop with Michael Jackson’s engineers. They told Murch that they had no special insight, they just tried one mix after another as Jackson sat in the back, silent. They knew they had it right when he got up and danced. The other way was the General Motors way. They took forever, and sometimes simply stopped trying…

  • Keeping people engaged

    Ted Cuzzillo
    15 Nov 2009 | 11:31 pm
    How refreshing to stumble into a trade show that has its eyes on users and their collaboration. Enterprise 2.0 came to San Francisco early this month, and I liked what I saw. Take, for example, Liquid Planner, the hosted project manager. Unlike conventional planners, it makes no demand for the single completion date, so laughable in practice. This planner avoids roulette thinking by asking instead for a range of dates — much easier to believe in. “One of the biggest problems in business is keeping people engaged,” says Liquid Planner CEO Charles Seybold. “If…

  • I’d kill for a trade show

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

  • No wizard, just you and the data

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

  • Stalking the why: selling visual analysis

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

    cwpeng
    17 Nov 2009 | 11:50 am
    Finally, what we’ve all been waiting for, today the entire next wave of Microsoft Business Intelligence is available in Beta. Grab yourself a copy of Microsoft Office 2010 beta, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 beta, and SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP3 and try out the exciting new BI capabilities from Microsoft. Test out the following and let us know what you think:   ·         The new Business Intelligence capabilities in Excel 2010. Connect to an Analysis Services cube and try the new Slicers, Sparklines, Custom Sets, Write-back and more……

  • 2009 SQL PASS Summit Update

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

  • Sharepoint Conference 2009 - Las Vegas

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

  • Get Everything BI at PASS Summit 2009

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

  • WPC round-up for Microsoft BI

    nismith
    16 Jul 2009 | 6:43 pm
      New Orleans was host to the Microsoft World Wide Partner Conference 2009 this week. With over 8,000 in attendance the WPC is a yearly opportunity for MS partners to connect with each other and gain insight into Microsoft’s strategy and direction.  I was able to attend the conference and wanted to provide a roundup for the exposure around Business Intelligence and some of the announcements that were made.   First off, be sure to check out the conference keynotes sessions at www.digitalwpc.com all of the keynotes I mention as highlights below can be found there and I’m…
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  • ETL tools: Don’t Forget About the Little Dogs

    Rick Sherman
    17 Nov 2009 | 8:41 am
    I’m not only concerned about hand-coding versus ETL tools;  I’m also concerned that potential buyers of ETL tools and the market in general are only looking at a small number of players in the ETL marketplace.For many years industry analyst research groups have identified the top two product vendors: Informatica and IBM (from its acquisition of Ascential Software). So, naturally, these two appear on any evaluation shortlist. The rest of the evaluation shortlist usually includes the bundled products (mentioned in my recent posts) that come with the databases, BI tools or applications…

  • Web Seminar - The Key to Operational BI: Keep It Simple

    Rick Sherman
    10 Nov 2009 | 3:29 pm
    Registration is now open for my upcoming free webinar: The Key to Operational BI: Keep It Simple. Date: November 17, 2009Time: 12PM ET/ 9AM PT REGISTER TODAYDelivering insights to front-line workers can significantly extend the value of your information management investments. What's more, operational BI can offer more immediate, tangible return than traditional, analyst-focused BI. The key is to keep it simple: operational workers often don't have much time for training or learning complex analysis tools. Instead, give them simple applications that deliver targeted advice.Register…

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

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

  • Data Integration: Hand-coding Using ETL Tools

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

  • Discount on my Online DW and BI Data Modeling Course

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

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Michael Crandell discusses how RightScale's Cloud Management Platform enables organizations to design, deploy, manage and automate business-critical applications on the cloud.

  • Why Has Data Mining Struggled So Much?

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    While Bill Inmon agrees that data mining has struggled over the years, he contends that it is still too early to call the practice a bust.

  • Entity and Identification

    19 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    David Loshin looks at the problem organizations face when attempting to consolidate customer data for reporting and analysis, especially in support of business activities such as customer retention or cross-selling and up-selling.

  • Expanding Business Intelligence Accessibility Through Dashboards

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:00 am
    Lyndsay Wise explains that the use of dashboards can help organizations achieve greater visibility and overall insights without requiring huge overall business intelligence investments.

  • Scott Staples, MindTree

    18 Nov 2009 | 6:00 am
    Scott Staples explains how MindTree’s Knowledge Services business provides a one-stop-shop for all our client’s data-specific needs including: data management, data services, analytics and business intelligence.
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  • Sybase Rolls On - Make Some Noise!

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:01 am
    From Blog: Merv AdrianSybase has announced yet another record revenue result for the third quarter of 2009. Like other leading data management firms, its database business demonstrated continuing vitality in a difficult economic period. With 32% growth in database licensing revenues against a strong year over year comparison, the venerable DBMS provider continued a string of recent strong results. A 30% operating margin was icing on the cake; John Chen has proved to be a careful steward for the firm as it has carefully navigated a changing environment for its database, mobile middleware, and…

  • Microsoft Business Intelligence: More Power to the Pivots

    19 Nov 2009 | 8:46 am
    From Blog: Jorgen HeizenbergAt the last Microsoft BI conference in Seattle  project “Gemini” was annouced. Gemini is now available as Powerpivot (see also www.powerpivot.com). Powerpivot (inspired by pivot table?) allows users to analyse the data within the comfort of their Excel 2010 interface. In my experience however 99% of the data contained in an Excel sheet is often a datadump from operational systems or a datawarehouse (like) environment. Nothing wrong with that by the way. It allows users to play around with the data. But my point is that the data comes from the companies own…

  • Web Seminar on Core Data Services Today Noon ET!

    19 Nov 2009 | 8:09 am
    From Blog: David LoshinI am presenting a talk today in a web seminar at noon ET. The talk is on "Best Practices Using Core Data Services," and I will explore how we can organize our critical information management and business intelligence activities on top of key data principles for quality, availability, and enhancement!

  • SAP + Microsoft Take Aim at Oracle

    18 Nov 2009 | 12:07 pm
    From Blog: Craig SchiffSure they have a common enemy in Oracle and have targeted them before, but this recent announcement is around business performance management (BPM). More specifically budgeting, planning and consolidation. That would mean the Oracle/Hyperion product set and the product set that SAP/BusinessObjects acquired with OutlookSoft. Both companies have very strong offerings in this area. Microsoft had a solid offering of its own in this area, PerformancePoint, which they backed away from. That probably made sense because it was still many versions away from truly competing with…

  • Samen Spelen

    18 Nov 2009 | 9:24 am
    From Blog: Jorgen HeizenbergSamen Spelen, Samen delen. Het lijkt een bezwerend mantra om de lieve vrede op de crí¨che te bewaren. Maar er is meer. Kinderen zijn eigenlijk continue aan het leren. Kruipen, leren lopen. Later spelen ze met lego, kralen of blokken. Het liefst doen ze dat alleen en zijn ze nog niet goed in staat om te delen. Ze houden liever alle leuke dingen voor zichzelf. Langzamerhand ontdekken kinderen echter dat spelen ook kan met andere kinderen. Maar dat betekent ook speelgoed delen. Dat gaat eerst nog gepaard met tranen maar later ontdekken kinderen dat samen spelen goed…
 
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  • Healthy Living in Hard Times

    Jonathan
    15 Nov 2009 | 8:21 pm
    A few weeks ago I got a chance to listen to Geoff Colvin talk about his new book, The Upside of the Downturn.  Geoff, a long-time editor and columnist for Fortune Magazine, is an engaging speaker and he peppered his opening comments with headlines from that morning’s newspapers. He also made the intriguing claim that death rates go down in a recession and offered up as evidence that profits were down at the U.S.’s largest maker of caskets. Several of us discussed this claim afterwards and found it hard to believe. With lower income, we expected that people would eat cheaper, less…

  • Poking fun at Marketing, redux

    Jonathan
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:59 pm
    After I poked fun at Marketing earlier this year, several people forwarded me this classic joke about the communication issues between Marketing and Engineering: A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces his altitude and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, “Excuse me. Can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.” The man below says, “Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 & 42 degrees…

  • Halloween Metrics

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

  • MBWA Origins and Spinoffs

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

  • Scrum By Walking Around

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

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:46 am
    Managers everywhere have been transfixed on putting more relevant data in the hands of information workers because they know that the right facts and data empower users to make impactful decisions with positive results. Today’s information worker uses reports to create a snapshot of aggregated data that gives them the initial effective information necessary to do their jobs correctly. What most users still don’t have is the ability to combine their own perspective with the data to freely navigate the data, pivot it, and generate unique insights. Join us for a webinar where we will…

  • Microsoft PowerPivot Greatly Enhances Excel 2010 Business Collaboration

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    9 Nov 2009 | 7:09 am
    Microsoft’s “Project Gemini” has finally materialized into something solid and extremely powerful: PowerPivot for Excel 2010. Information workers that love Excel can build powerful analytical applications and organize millions of rows of data into a workbook for simple sharing and collaboration with other team members. This is a huge step for Microsoft—one that greatly benefits independent software vendors (ISVs). PowerPivot is unique in that it puts BI at the fingertips of business users while offering better visibility for management and monitoring of collaboration using Microsoft…

  • Webinar: Combine the Power of OLAP with Ad-Hoc Self-Service Reporting

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

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

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

  • Will SaaS Lead Open Source to Extinction?

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

    16 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    At Open World I met Ross Sharman of Global Knowledge. Based on standard dashboarding technology, the company has developed an extremely compelling solution that helps property managers (like office building and appartment building) manage consumption of indoor air quality, use of energy such as electricity and gas, water, waste/recycling, occupancy, staff well-being, and link that to for instance weather information and governance measures such as carbon procing, occupancy forecasting, benchmarking, tenancy green lease obligation and asset valuation trending. The system is called EMMA. The…

  • BBQ = BPM + CRM + EPM + ERM

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

  • Hadn't done that in a few years!

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

  • Journal of Management Excellence, Issue 7

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

  • That Time of the Year Again

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

    Peter O'Donnell
    9 Nov 2009 | 3:23 pm
    Just wrapping my mind around a new direction for a research project. Some of you know, I've been around the traps in the last little bit doing my schtick on interfaces. Of course everybody says the interface is important but I don't think we do a lot about it.Main message of my talk is that we don't devote enough effort or resources to the design of the interface. We just use the "orthodox" tables and charts provided by the vendors in our data displays (and the same for the navigation between views of data) - and many of them are not very good. We just did a study where we can two different…

  • Timo Elliott's demonstration dashboard

    Peter O'Donnell
    21 Jun 2009 | 6:23 am
    Neat little demo put together by Timo Elliott (@timoelliott) from Business Objects using their Xcelcius product as a - think I'm inventing words here - mashupable object. He plonked the dashboard he made, on his blog with a number of controls that allow you - YouTube style - to share via email, twitter or cut and past as an object in html. This kind of functionality will get even easier when HTML 5 gains traction, but as Timo shows its do-able right now. Doesn't matter that it's a dashboard, the idea could work with any report or report part. I really like the ability to click to expand to…

  • An experiment on Twitter

    Peter O'Donnell
    9 Jun 2009 | 4:19 pm
    For a long time a few of us, and not just at Monash, have wondered how a real time text feed - perhaps in RSS format - might be applied to BI systems. Now that social networking sites like Facebook/Twitter/Friendfeed exist and are becoming widely used the idea has a bit more traction with people we talk too - nothing like concrete experience to help people understand what you are talking about.I've just set up a Twitter account that I'm going to use to develop a prototype system to demonstrate how a "feed" of text updates might be useful in a BI context. This feed (@monashbiindex) will…

  • Light at the end of the tunnel

    Peter O'Donnell
    31 May 2009 | 4:01 am
    Rob and I and co. bloggers have been more than a little quiet as - despite our best intentions - we got run over by our teaching work load in semester 1. Semester 1 is about to end so we'll get back to some BI blogging very soon. Worth mentioning that we'll also be starting a BI podcast (not the same as the ones we have for our units). This will feature interviews with BI "thinkers" from Melbourne and around the world, as well as the occasional talk from members of the Centre. We will start with a couple of talks from me - the first will be a "briefing" on the decision support industry I gave…

  • Cranky Geek - John Dvorak - takes huge swipe at spreadsheets, BI and accountants.

    Peter O'Donnell
    22 Jan 2009 | 7:13 pm
    Lots of other things I want to and should post at the moment, but I couldn't let this slip. An article by John Dvorak that is kicking up quite a storm. Love John Dvorak. Always worth reading and listening. He's often wrong (and very wrong), but always there is something to what he says. Anyway, he is an article about the 30th anniversary of the spreadsheet. He's nuts of course (in a good way, and that's what I like about him), but he makes a point. We have all this wonderful what-if analysis, information at our figure-tips, enterprise Bi all over the place - so how come we aren't making…
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  • MAIA Intelligence is Ready to Offer Intuitive Graphical Reporting experiences Benefits Compatible with Windows 7

    Dhiren Gala
    15 Nov 2009 | 10:27 pm
    MAIA Intelligence to take the advantage of enhanced Windows 7 features such as Sky Drive, Federated Search, Timer Coalescing API, shuffling program windows, animated controls, etc. in its 1KEY Agile BI Suite for rich & interactive BI interface experiences to the end-users. MAIA Intelligence, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partnertoday announced being awarded the “Compatible with Windows 7” logo from Microsoft, recognition that it has successfully passed high standards of compatibility, reliability and performance with Windows 7. 1KEY Agile BI Suite, single layer, interoperable, ground-up…

  • KPI for Airlines

    Dhiren Gala
    8 Nov 2009 | 9:05 pm
    The airline industry has many challenges. There are times when airline managers have to drastically cancel a flight, leading to a mob of angry and anxious passengers. Oftentimes, these scenarios lead to the hassle of refunding airplane tickets and sometimes long term wounds, such as a decline in the number of passengers. The challenges vary from small concerns to serious flight security issues. If these are left unnoticed, these could snow ball into a gigantic problem. When managing an airline company, at whatever level or department, thorough planning must be put in place, particularly with…

  • Kale Consultants ties up with MAIA Intelligence as its OEM partner for 1KEY BI

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

  • ERP plus BI Equals More Value

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

  • KPI for Travel Agency

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

    18 Nov 2009 | 3:45 am
    From blog: Financial Management Systems Blog Ask any executive what is the toughest aspect of business, and near the top of the list will be that of operationalising strategy. Business consultancy Group Partners notes: "All too often organisations suffer a disconnect between the strategy determined by the executive team and its subsequent implementation and delivery at the operational level....

  • Is your company’s process of collecting and analyzing clinical trial study data too manual and time consuming?

    17 Nov 2009 | 7:15 am
    From blog: cooper to logan

  • Yellowfin dives into Partnership with Techwave in the Philippines

    15 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    From blog: InsideYellowfinPhilippines, November 13, 2009 – leading Business intelligence (BI) firm, Yellowfin, today announced details of its exclusive distribution partnership with Techwave. The new alliance will see Techwave offer the Australian-developed BI solution to corporate and government clients as well as develop a larger reseller and partner community within the ...

  • Bounded Rationality, BI and Beyond

    15 Nov 2009 | 4:45 am
    From blog: Business Intelligence - A Practitioner's ThoughtsHerbert Alexander Simon, an American political scientist, economist, psychologist and professor, coined the term "Bounded Rationality". Bounded Rationality is a concept which relates to the fact that the decision making capability of individuals is limited by the information that they have and the finite amount of time they have to...

  • IT Management - Register Now FREE - SaaS Analytics Webinar

    11 Nov 2009 | 10:15 am
    From blog: Business Intelligence, Peer-to-Peer, B2B MarketingFive Reasons, Five Uses, Five Benefits: Using SaaS for Your Divisional BI Needs Leading companies are choosing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business intelligence (BI) solutions to provide reporting and analytics for divisions and business units. There are some specific use cases where a SaaS model quickly delivers business value and grows with the...
 
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    Business Intelligent Resources

  • Business Intelligence Resources

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

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

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    SB
    Visualising Data Uncertainty

  • Visualising Data Uncertainty

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

  • Search: Next Big Thing for Mobiles

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

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    SB
    Search: next big thing for mobiles
 
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    Business Intelligence News by Marcus Borba

  • Does your company have a BI strategy?

    9 Nov 2009 | 3:00 pm
    Boris Evelson wrote today a short but nice post in Information Management, called Ten Strong Hints Your Enterprise May Not Have a BI Strategy, where he lists 10 hints why the companies don't have a BI strategy. Below is his list:"You know that you don't have an enterprise BI strategy if:1 - Your end users keep pointing to IT as the source of most BI problems 2 - Your business executives view BI as another cost center 3 - IT staff keep asking end users for report requirements 4 - Your BI is supported by IT help desk 5 - You can’ tell the difference between BI and Performance Management 6 -…

  • Predictive Analytics World Fall 2009

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

  • IBM Information on Demand 2009

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

  • Business Transformation

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

  • Teradata Partners User Group Conference 2009

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

  • Gartner IT Symposium

    20 Nov 2009 | 12:41 pm
    I was lucky enough this week to get a complimentary pass to the Gartner IT Symposium (thanks Gartner!) where several hundred C-level executives gathered to hear the latest on the state of the IT indus...

  • Interactive Map of cloud services

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:30 am
    Appirio, a company that helps enterprise customers leverage PaaS cloud platforms such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps, put a nice interactive navigator on their website.The Appirio cloud computing e...

  • The importance of institutional redundancy

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:26 am
    Every system built by a single institution has points of failure that can bring the entire system down. Even in organizations that have tried hard for internal redundancy – for example, Google and Ama...

  • The intersection of change management and design thinking

    20 Nov 2009 | 5:30 am
    When I read articles like Bruce Nussbaum’s, Life in Beta, I am more and more convinced that change management can teach us what (not how) we can do to lead change and design thinking can help us under...

  • The Top 25 Words of the Decade from 2000 - 2009

    19 Nov 2009 | 7:25 pm
    1. Global Warming (2000) 2. 9/11 (2001) 3. Obama (2008) 4. Bailout (2008) 5. Evacuee/refugee (2005): (Survivors of Katrina who had to be rescued) 6. Derivative (2007) 7. Google (2007) 8. Surge (20...
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    eMarkets.de B2B Trade

  • Tender Platform for Logistics and Transportation

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

  • Wholesale Marketplace for Products made in China

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

  • New Internet Marketing Options by Google

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

  • Global Marketplace for Services

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

  • International B2B Online Trade Marketplace

    emarkets.de
    10 Aug 2009 | 10:28 am
    getamarket.com is an international b2b trading platform, where enterprises may represent themselves with own feature rich homepages. Too, the service enables online trade by presenting goods and making inquiries. Furthermore members are able to exchange information and expert knowledge at an integrated community with forums. The platform primarily is active in Asia and Eastern Europe, the [...]
 
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  • Fresh Beancast Tackles Modern Warfare 2, Razorfish, Social Media Guru Hustlers

    Black Canseco
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:00 am
    Fresh Beancast Tackles Modern Warfare 2, Razorfish, Social Media Guru Hustlers and more...This past Sunday, I had the chance to site down with Bob Knorpp of The Bean Cast—one of the better and faster growing podcasts out there. So on Monday I sat down with:Bill Green—art director extraordinaire, publisher of Make The Logo Bigger and host of Adverve [he tweets  @mtlb] Duane Forrester, In-House SEO Manager, MSN [Also for more on Duane and information on ordering his books, go to The Online Marketing Guy @SportsGuy] Aaron Strout, Director of Marketing, Powered (For more on Aaron, visit…

  • Shachah is back! Let the Light In!

    Black Canseco
    20 Nov 2009 | 5:11 am
    I'm still on vacay, but I wanted to drop a quick note... I swear Shachah makes some really dope music... I reviewed their first album ON THE MOVE last year —see review here...) Come to think of it, I interviewed them on a whim a while back when the album dropped. Check that one out as well. (see here) It's good to see these cats avoid the sophomore/junior slump. Their latest is called Let The Light In. It's more cool funky rock hiphop which is better than I just described. But don't worry, I'll get an official review out the door soon. Meanwhile I rolled over to their…

  • Still On Vacation....

    Black Canseco
    18 Nov 2009 | 9:41 pm
    I haven't forgotten y'all... Will be back soon. Just need a break. I'm extending my time off till Dec. 1.

  • I'm on Blogging Sabatical Until...

    Black Canseco
    16 Nov 2009 | 9:35 am
    After Thanksgiving. I just need time to catch up on writing and pay some bills. Meanwhile, I did squeeze in a a cool podcast for Bill Knopp over at the BeanCast. We talked about everything from Modern Marvel to Google's purchase of AdMob to assorted branding and marketing issues. And by "we" i mean, Bill, myself, Duane Forrester from Microsoft, Aaron Strout and Bill Green from MTLB.Check it out here: www.beancast.us

  • I'm Gone Fishing...

    Black Canseco
    11 Nov 2009 | 6:56 am
    Okay, so it's too cold to fish. Even out here in SoCal... But the point is, Black Canseco's gonna take some time off from Blogging. I've come to the realization that blogging isn't helping me write much these days. I've got all manner of half-started, half-finished books and columns that need tending to. And let's be honest: I'm a writer. (It may not seem like I'm a writer, but trust me, I am. I've got pay stubs and all manner of paper to prove it.)Point is, writing and blogging ain't the same. And I've gotten addicted to one at the expense of the…
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    Building Business Value Blog

  • Curve Ball: Throwing Good Money After Bad Revenues

    Marty O'Neill
    18 Nov 2009 | 10:46 pm
    Major league strategies for mid-market CEOs Love 'em or hate 'em, the New York Yankees just won their twenty-seventh World Series championship title. That's nearly three times as many as the number two team, the St. Louis Cardinals (just 10), almost four times as many as the Yankees' Beantown rivals, the Boston Red Sox (just seven titles since 1903). Sure, the Yankees have paid ballplayers huge salaries the last 10 years. But, they've only won World Series championships in 2000 and 2009. So, what is it that makes the Yankees such a winning team, perhaps the most valuable franchise in…

  • Sharing Your Vision

    Marty O'Neill
    16 Nov 2009 | 1:39 am
    So you and your leadership team are heading back from your annual leadership retreat.  You've thought deep thoughts, built your plan for next year and are now beginning to wonder about your next steps.  How do you get everyone aligned with this great new vision. Panic and anxiety haven't set in yet, but they're lingering. How do you create ownership in a situation like this? How do you get buy-in to be more than just a cliché? A sense of ownership is created when executives are assigned tasks. Tom Morrison, an experienced turnaround executive formerly with Morrison Partners and now…

  • Leading the Freeman Way

    Marty O'Neill
    13 Nov 2009 | 7:15 am
    This week Time Magazine named Freeman Hrabowski one of the country's Ten Best College Presidents. In its issue on newsstands this Friday, November 13, Freeman is featured in a list that includes presidents from Ohio State University, New York University, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Arizona State University, Tulane University, Middlebury College, Miami Dade College, University of Texas at Brownsville and University of California Oakland. In language typical of a leader who credits his team and surroundings, Freeman said "This recognition reflects the campus's success and the high quality…

  • Increasing Operational Effectiveness

    Marty O'Neill
    11 Nov 2009 | 10:01 pm
    Incremental improvement gets you to par value, but not to premium value. Ron Jones, while Senior Vice President of corporate development for Veridian, oversaw the company's revenue growth as it exploded past $1 billion before it was acquired by General Dynamics at a premium valuation.  Jones, now a Board Member with Global Strategies Group North America and the architect of a number of successful midmarket growth strategies, says that "improving daily operational performance is necessary to achieving superior results, but it is not sufficient."  Amen to that. Michael E. Porter,…

  • The Cure for Malaise

    Marty O'Neill
    9 Nov 2009 | 12:40 am
    I've got to come clean before I start my rant.  I've never really liked going to the mall.  Even as a younger man (OK, hit the geezer alert now), trips to the mall took more out of me than they were worth.  After about ten minutes I could feel the good vibes just draining out of my body as if each kiosk or new age fashion store were some form of energy magnet. Well I had occasion to swing by the mall this week and I began to feel like I needed a transfusion.  You see I had a mission, a real purpose, a specific reason for going into the mall.  But I also had about…
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  • Intelligence Server SDK Kit (part 3)

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

  • MicroStrategy Price ?? Trade Secret

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

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

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

  • A bit dull here for a while

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

  • MicroStrategy Interview Questions (with Answers)

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

    Jonathan C. Hall
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:59 am
    I suffered my first misdelivered Kindle newspaper yesterday. I’m not complaining, really — I’m the last person to expect 100% performance from a brand new distribution system. But I did briefly long for the days of paperboys when I saw this: Clicking through, I read the following apology: Dear Jonathan, Thank you for subscribing to The Wall Street [...]

  • Healthcare Solution: Insurance Company Says Peel Fresh Citrus

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

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

    Jonathan C. Hall
    8 Sep 2009 | 1:57 pm
    Is brainstorming the best way to be creative? Doubt it.

  • Use Twitter Anonymously, and Be Someone’s Muse

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

  • Car Fuel Tank Shape: Actual vs. Deduced

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

    admin
    19 Nov 2009 | 1:05 pm
    I recently attended a panel on start-up funding, and while this information is mostly common sense, its always good to be reminded.  So here’s a quick summary of my notes along with my own commentary thrown in. Prepare, prepare, prepare Be ready for the pitch, and remember you are making a sale, but at the end of the day, its you they will buy into so BE YOURSELF. It is not how great the business is going to be, its how you will get those investors to a desire ROI.  Spell out how you intend to reach the numbers that would make investment in your company attractive to them. Different…

  • Ideas for Investor Presentations

    admin
    16 Nov 2009 | 8:31 pm
    KISS plays an important role (Keep It Simple Stupid) You do not need many slides and they should be to the point.  These slides will probably not fall into place but result from a lot of sweat and tears to get them down to their core message.  This may be challenging as everyone is excited about their product and wants to share, in detail, their incredible solution, but entrepreneurs need to view their slides with the jaded view of investors.  Every entrepreneur that crosses their doorway has a brilliant idea, so you need to set yourself apart in other ways.  The best way is to quickly…

  • Thoughts from Angel Investors

    admin
    14 Nov 2009 | 2:04 pm
    I attended ASTIA’s Doing It Right last week in the role of advisor.  One panel, I sat in on featured several Angel Investors, and I wanted to pass along their advise and comments. The panel included Sam Angus: Fenwick & West (Moderator) JoAnne Miller – Golden Seeds Ann Nigam – Sand Hill Angles Sue Preston – Clean Energy, CalCef Angle Funds Wendy Robinson – Harvard Angles A key takeaway is that not all angel investors are created equal:  they may invest in different stages of company development, they have different requirements in exchange for thier…

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

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

  • Keep It Real

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

    Chris O.
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:35 pm
    Because our readers tell us about the best regional business events, and as your source of everything that’s fit to click we have launched the ABN calendar of events.  This is a self-serve function where anyone can post an event for gatherings of businesses and business groups (subject to ABN approval).  No fee, no memberships.  Just powerful networking.

  • New Home Under Contract for North Arundel Chamber

    Chris O.
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:33 pm
    GLEN BURNIE – The North Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce is awaiting a settlement date for its new office space at 7439 Baltimore Annapolis Blvd.   The Chamber expects to move within a year after renovating the 1920-era building so that it will have a community resource center and conference room available for local group meetings.  There also will be space available for subleasing, according to CEO Fran Schmidt.

  • TCS Acquires Sidereal Solutions

    Chris O.
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:32 pm
    ANNAPOLIS – In its second acquisition in a week, wireless provider TeleCommunication Systems has purchased Sidereal Solutions, an Atlanta-based source for satellite communications technology, operations and maintenance and support services.  The deal was concluded for cash, approximately 244,000 shares of TCS Class A common stock, and contingent consideration based on the business’ gross profit in 2010 and 2011.  Sidereal has been a business partner of TCS’ government solutions group since 2007. See TCS release.

  • TRACE Launches Anti-Bribery Resource

    Chris O.
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:31 pm
    ANNAPOLIS – Non-profit TRACE has introduced the TRACE Compendium, an online database of summaries and analyses of international anti-bribery enforcement actions and investigations throughout the world.  Users can get the latest enforcement trends according to country, category type, such as cases involving gifts and hospitality, or by those with a compliance monitor.  TRACE aims to help lawyers, executives, academics, civil society and the media with this review of anti-bribery enforcement activity. See TRACE release.

  • JPB Enterprises, Inc. Announces Formation of JPB Real Estate Services, LLC

    Chris O.
    18 Nov 2009 | 12:29 pm
    COLUMBIA – JPB Enterprises, Inc. has formed subsidiary JPB Real Estate Services, LLC as a full service commercial brokerage, construction and asset manager and institutional advisor.  The offerings of the new entity will target the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast U.S. See JPB release.
 
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  • Ron Paul Defends His Plan for Fed Oversight

    By CYRUS SANATI
    20 Nov 2009 | 3:26 pm
    Defending himself against critics, Representative Ron Paul of Texas played down concerns on Friday that his amendment to give Congress sweeping new oversight powers over the Federal Reserve would compromise the central bank's political independence.

  • Hershey Considers a Counterbid for Cadbury

    By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN
    20 Nov 2009 | 2:59 pm
    Hershey is considering bidding for Cadbury, a proposal that would top the $16.7 billion hostile bid from Kraft, people briefed on the matter told DealBook on Friday.

  • Morgan Stanley Reaches Deal on Barclays Loan

    By DEALBOOK
    20 Nov 2009 | 11:24 am
    Morgan Stanley is handing over Crescent Real Estate Equities to Barclays Capital, winning forgiveness of a $2 billion loan that financed its acquisition of the real estate business in 2007.

  • BofA's Ideal Chief: the One Who's Leaving?

    By CYRUS SANATI
    20 Nov 2009 | 10:02 am
    Richard X. Bove, the outspoken bank analyst, believes that the best person to lead Bank of America is the man who's leaving the chief executive post.

  • CF Claims 3 Seats on Terra's Board

    By CYRUS SANATI
    20 Nov 2009 | 8:48 am
    CF Industries announced Friday that all three of its nominees were elected to the board of rival fertilizer maker Terra Industries, potentially ending an 11-month takeover battle.
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  • Gone Fishing on Thanksgiving

    20 Nov 2009 | 1:11 pm
    I’ll be taking the week of Thanksgiving off from work and blogging.  I’ll return the first week of December. Until then, I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving week and holiday. In the meantime, Feel free to browse previous posts on the site via the Topics list to the left.

  • Unemployed Blues? Forget the News

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:00 am
    The Optimist’s Perspective We’re continuously bombarded with sensationalized news.  These days it’s mostly about the economy.  When the latest unemployment numbers come out, the majority of media focus on how it’s increased.  Economists of the past saw patterns of strong recovery after a deep recession, but the Wall Street Journal claims otherwise in an article titled, “Why No One Expects a Strong Recovery.” Does all of this get you down and perplexed?  It shouldn’t, because you have the Optimist’s Perspective. In this debut post on the Optimist’s…

  • Topic Changes for TheMarq

    19 Nov 2009 | 6:22 pm
    Site Policy I mentioned in a post last week that I was reconsidering the topics and format of information covered on this site.  I’ve now come up with a new set of topics.  Some of them are the same as before but covered on a different day, while others have been dropped or changed slightly.  Also, note that you can now view articles by topic from your left navigation. Here are the new topics:  Mondays: Business Strategies This is one of my favorite subjects.  I’ll continue to cover service and product delivery, team building, productivity and general business…

  • Jazz Up Your Presentations with Prezi

    18 Nov 2009 | 6:00 pm
    Technology Review If you’re like me, you have to make PowerPoint presentations on various subjects for people with varying levels of understanding about what you do.  You may even watch a few at meetings or conferences.  Up until last week, I’ve been a devoted fan of PowerPoint.  I’ve used other presentation tools, but none compares to MS PowerPoint…until now! I recently attended a local chapter of Project Management Institute where I saw a presentation made entirely in Prezi. I’ve seen customized PowerPoint presentations by Microsoft, created by professional…

  • Where are our Optimists?

    17 Nov 2009 | 11:51 pm
    Weekly Rant It’s funny how when faced with dire straits there are no optimists to be found.  The reverse is true when money is flowing and times are good.  So, where are those superheroes that even in the face of great odds give us hope and show us how we can flourish? I don’t know, but I know they live somewhere among us. I certainly hear many people proclaim they’re optimists.  I hear it from people looking for employment as well as businessmen looking for new customers.  The problem is as they begin to talk about the current market conditions, all I hear are…
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  • The Garage Sale Is Now OPEN! 24/7

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

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

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

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

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

  • A Reason To Believe – In FRED67.com

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

  • Preserve Your Integrity.

    Administrator
    18 Dec 2007 | 12:46 am
    PRESERVE YOUR INTEGRITY. It is more precious than diamonds or rubies.  The old miser said to his sons: “Get money; get it honestly if you can, but get money:”  This advice was not only atrociously wicked, but it was the very essence of stupidity: It was as much as to say, “if you find it difficult to obtain money honestly, you can easily get it dishonestly…….. So get it in that way.”  Poor fool! Not to know that the most difficult thing in life is to make money dishonestly! Not to know that our prisons are full of men who attempted to follow this advice; not to understand that…
 
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