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  • Big Data: A Venn Diagram

    BeyeNETWORK Content
    6 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
    Bill Inmon provides a Venn diagram to illustrate how various types of data relate to big data and discusses the implications of those relationships.

  • Dilbert on Jargons

    Business Intelligence News by Marcus Borba
    26 May 2013 | 2:43 pm
    (Click on comic strip to view larger image) Dilbert by Scott Adams-Dilbert ©2013, Universal Uclick Published at January 09, 2013 in dilbert.com Via GoodData Corporation Facebook Page

  • Visualization: New Ways to Weave Data into Your Business

    BeyeNETWORK Content
    18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
    With this article, Lee Feinberg begins a series on the strategic importance of visualization. The series details the steps you need to follow to transform your business intelligence visualizations so they can lead to better and faster decisions.

  • Self-Service BI Myths and Truths

    Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing
    Rick Sherman
    16 May 2013 | 5:00 am
    As I discussed in The Road to Self-Service BI, enterprises need a better understanding of self-service BI so they can avoid the common mistakes often made with it. Self-Service BI Truths The primary goal of self-service BI is to enable business people to perform business analytics in a timely and self-sufficient manner. A secondary goal for many business people is that the information they use in that analysis is consistent, comprehensive, correct and current. Supporting objectives: More pervasive and in-depth use of analytics in decision-making Reduced time to insight Improved business and…

  • The Dashboard Story with 1KEY Touch

    MAIA Intelligence Blog
    Praktan Kadam
    16 May 2013 | 8:11 am
    Companies today face the challenge of having a plethora of information available from disparate sources. Even when useful data is available, it is often too overwhelming to find it. In such scenarios you can make use of data visualization with self-service and transform how you view your business by interacting with sophisticated visual representations of performance. Perform data analysis with your own dashboards to gain new insights – and make informed decisions. 1KEY Touch Dashboard can help you illuminate your business with holistic view of key metrics and information. 1KEY Touch…
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    Statspotting!

  • The Average American Spends $169 On Mother’s Day, $120 For Father’s Day

    junior
    16 Jun 2013 | 4:03 pm
    That is not so surprising if you count in the fact that Mom’s stuff is costlier than Dad’s. But as a stat it is still a good one to spot – the average spend on Moms is some 41 percent more than the average spend on Dads on their respective days (Source) Not so surprising since Dads anyways spend less time with children in general. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post The Average American Spends $169 On Mother’s Day, $120 For Father’s Day appeared first on Statspotting!.

  • 27 Billion Messages In One Day: WhatsApp Creates A New Record

    junior
    13 Jun 2013 | 2:39 pm
    We had spotted several Whatsapp stats in the past – we spotted this stat today, that it hit an all-time high record of 27 billion messages in one day. One day. (Source) How do we digest this number? Let us try this: at 1.5 billion smartphones in the world, this is an average of 18 messages per smartphone on that one single day. Someone said WhatsApp is the new Facebook. These numbers make it difficult for Facebook to match up. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post 27 Billion Messages In One Day: WhatsApp Creates A…

  • $850 Billion: What China Will Spend On Water In The Next Decade

    junior
    2 Jun 2013 | 4:49 pm
    Well, it is one of those numbers that make you go ‘wow’. We spotted this stat today, that China has budgeted close to a trillion dollars – okay, not a trillion – but 850 billion dollars to get its water supplies right. This amount would be spent over the next decade (Source) The beneficiary would be Singapore – which has more than 100 companies operating in the water sector, which already operate close to 10 billion dollars worth of international water projects. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter…

  • Housing: Case-Shiller Index To Show A 12 Percent YoY Increase In April

    junior
    2 Jun 2013 | 8:35 am
    Call the index inflated – it doesn’t matter. Housing is back, and how. The Case-Shiller index for April is expected to show more than a 12 percent Year-on-Year increase – an eye-popping number by all measures (Source) There are many who make the case that the index is currently overstating the house appreciation – but even if you take away the inflated part, the fact is that housing is back in a very strong way. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post Housing: Case-Shiller Index To Show A 12 Percent…

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 Statistics: 10 Million Units Sold In Four Weeks

    junior
    24 May 2013 | 12:35 am
    All Samsung records have been smashed with this one – we spotted this stat today, that Samsung’s latest phone, the S4, has broken all records and has sold some 10 million units in the month since its launch – making it Samsung’s ‘fastest selling smartphone ever’. (Source) How do these numbers compare with the past? Try this: the S3 took 50 days to reach this milestone. You get the picture. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post Samsung Galaxy S4 Statistics: 10 Million Units Sold In Four…
 
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    The Numbers Guy

  • Do the Numbers Behind Prism Add Up?

    Carl Bialik
    14 Jun 2013 | 6:15 pm
    My print column examines the math behind the National Security Agency's Prism program to collect data on personal communications. Even with much still unknown about Prism, statisticians and security experts are debating whether a data-mining program can be an efficient way to spot terrorists and chatter about terrorism. Corey Chivers, a fourth-year graduate student at McGill University in Montreal, stirred the debate with a blog post last week claiming that, by one set of assumptions, an algorithm to screen communications would falsely flag 10,000 innocent people for every one terrorist.

  • Census Nominee’s Full Plate

    Carl Bialik
    7 Jun 2013 | 9:41 pm
    John H. Thompson, nominated by President Obama to lead the Census Bureau, would have a big set of challenges if he takes office, starting with possible blowback from reports about the PRISM program.

  • No Shortcuts in Measuring Bridge Safety

    Carl Bialik
    31 May 2013 | 5:38 pm
    A bridge's age, its sufficiency ratings, whether it's classified as deficient -- none of these say how likely the bridge is to collapse.

  • Seeking Order in Disorder Data

    Carl Bialik
    24 May 2013 | 7:24 pm
    A recent report on mental disorders among American children sheds light on how many are suffering, and on what we still don't know about prevalence of these conditions.

  • Tough Math of Victim Funds

    Carl Bialik
    17 May 2013 | 8:10 pm
    Kenneth Feinberg explains his approach to deciding how to distribute funds for victims of tragedies such as the Boston Marathon bombings.
 
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    Business Analytics

  • Big Data is A Powerful Weapon. Use it Wisely.

    Timo Elliott
    19 Jun 2013 | 4:21 am
    “With great strength comes great responsibility”*. Today, too many organizations using big data seem only to be limited by what they dare admit to the public. Don’t follow their example. Legally, you may own the data, but you should behave as if it were owned by the people who generated it. This means transparency,making it easy for people to see what data you hold about them, and what you’re doing with it. It means asking for permission before using their data in new ways. It means letting people control who else has access to that data. Data privacy is becoming a competitive…

  • VELUX: A New Business Intelligence Strategy To Meet New Needs

    Timo Elliott
    18 Jun 2013 | 8:07 am
    VELUX is a €2.3bn provider of roof windows and skylights, headquartered in Copenhagen in Denmark. The VELUX name is derived from “ventilation” and “lux” (light in Latin), and it is one of the strongest global brands in building materials. Anders Reinhardt, head of global business intelligence for Velux recently gave a presentation explaining the company’s business intelligence strategy, at the Gurus of BI event in Oslo, Norway. VELUX has been using business intelligence for over a decade. Like many other organizations, has been struggling to find the right model to provide better…

  • Big Data Boasts (Cartoon)

    Timo Elliott
    14 Jun 2013 | 9:53 am
    Is bigger always better? Share and Enjoy • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS

  • Analytics Like Never Before

    Timo Elliott
    14 Jun 2013 | 7:56 am
    I presented a session on “Analytics Like Never Before” last week at the Gurus of BI conference in Oslo, Norway. The fast-paced, 40 minute presentation covers a wide range of analytics topics including: Why new “signal” data means we no longer have to manage business by looking out of the rear-view mirror Why big changes to analytics technology are ripping up existing best practices Why you shouldn’t let anybody tell you that in-memory technology is too expensive Why many of the traditional barriers to analytics success — such as the integration of…

  • The Ethics of Big Data: Vendors Should Take A Stand

    Timo Elliott
    12 Jun 2013 | 5:59 am
    I have been working in analytics for over twenty years, and have witnessed first hand how these technologies have made the world a better place. I’ve seen thousands of examples, from every type of corporate efficiency imaginable, to improving customer satisfaction at theme parks and making better use of limited blood supplies. Yet we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to “big data analytics.”  There are many different definitions of this term, but my favorite  is “using data that was previously ignored because of technology limitations” — and those…
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    Visual Business Intelligence

  • Big Data and the NSA

    Stephen Few
    18 Jun 2013 | 11:31 am
    In a recent blog post titled “Big data NSA spying is not even an effective strategy,” Francis Gouillart raised concerns about Big Data that are very much in line with mine. Gouillart’s is a refreshing and rare voice of sanity. He’s been around long enough to recognize marketing hype when he sees it, and as an independent thinker with ethics, not a shill for technology vendors, he is one among few who are speaking the truth. Here’s a sample: The evidence for big data is scant at best. To date, large fields of data have generated meaningful insights at times, but…

  • Predictive Analytics – Eric Siegel Lights the Way

    Stephen Few
    31 May 2013 | 1:45 pm
    Predictive analytics is one of the most popular IT terms of our day, and like the others (Big Data, Data Science, etc.), it’s often defined far too loosely. People who work in the field of predictive analytics, however, use the term fairly precisely and meaningfully. No one, in my experience, does a better job of explaining predictive analytics—what it is, how it works, and why it’s important—than Eric Siegel, the founder of Predictive Analytics World, Executive Editor of the Predictive Analytics Times, and author of the new best-selling book in the field, Predictive…

  • Are You a Data Scientist?

    Stephen Few
    30 May 2013 | 1:47 pm
    I’ve written a great deal during the past few months about Big Data, which is the most annoying, constantly-in-your-face information technology term of recent history. Another term has arisen in connection with Big Data that has generated its own share of hype and confusion: Data Science. I haven’t written about data science until now, but the following email from a data analyst named Kelly Martin has spurred me into action. Dear Sir, I am writing to ask you to please compose a post specifically addressing the new ‘data scientist’ hype, as this term is filtering down…

  • Coming Soon: A New Edition of Information Dashboard Design

    Stephen Few
    21 May 2013 | 1:52 pm
    Dashboards have become, in the minds of many, the most useful new form of information display that has emerged in the last decade or so. Since its publication in 2006, my book Information Dashboard Design has consistently been a best seller in the field of data visualization and the unchallenged authority on the visual design of dashboards, but it is in need of an update. In late July or early August, this problem will be solved with the publication of Information Dashboard Design: Displaying data for at-a-glance monitoring, Second Edition, in hardback from Analytics Press. New chapters have…

  • A Preview of Tableau 9: Gauges?!

    Stephen Few
    20 May 2013 | 12:47 pm
    If George Peck has his way (Peck wrote the only authorized book about Tableau 8 and has also served as the featured speaker in many of the Tableau 8 Roadshow events), the next version of Tableau will add flashy gauges to its library of charts. Here are his thoughts on the matter, as recorded in the latest newsletter from Peck’s consultancy The Ablaze Group: Why Tableau Should Add a Gauge to Version 9 We’re wrapping up the Tableau 8 Roadshow (having now been shut out of two cities, including our own hometown of Denver, by airport weather cancellations). Tableau 8 is available and…
 
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    Datadoodle

  • Two more execs on data analysts in the executive suite

    Ted Cuzzillo
    18 Jun 2013 | 3:01 am
    An insurance executive I quoted a few weeks ago in this space spoke heresy: Not only do most data analysts he’s known lack the polish for presentations to execs, even worse was too narrow a point of view for leading an organization. It’s the Analytics Gap. To that, the prolific tweeter and data scientist @data_nerd, Carla Gentry, reacted for many others in the decision support industry: “Huh?” “I think a logical mind is perfect for business,” she tweeted to me when I inquired. “You must see the whole picture to run a successful business. Having an…

  • Execs vs. data analysts gives us the Analytics Gap

    Ted Cuzzillo
    5 Jun 2013 | 4:16 pm
    One insurance company’s chief data scientist is “terrific at what he does,” says his boss, even “brilliant.” The company is lucky to have him. But he never sees the inside of the executive suite. “He is a quirky, quirky guy,” says the boss, “and he is a super powerful dude in what he’s doing for us.” But upper executives would judge him harshly. “There would be a terrible outcome.” Let’s call it the Analytics Gap. At least in this company and probably in many others, some of those who interpret the data don’t…

  • Big Data, big hype, big danger

    Ted Cuzzillo
    12 Apr 2013 | 12:01 pm
    A remarkable thing happened in Big Data last week. One of Big Data’s best friends poked fun at one of its icons: the Three V’s. The well-networked and alert observer Shawn Rogers, vice president of research at Enterprise Management Associates, tweeted his eight V’s: “…Vast, Volumes of Vigorously, Verified, Vexingly Variable Verbose yet Valuable Visualized high Velocity Data.” He was quick to explain to me that this is no comment on Gartner analyst Doug Laney’s three-V definition. Shawn’s just tired of people getting stuck on V’s. How strange…

  • Collaboration for the collaboratively resistant

    Ted Cuzzillo
    2 Apr 2013 | 3:01 am
    “Unless you’re a sociopath,” the slogan goes, “you’re going to collaborate.” It works. In one breath, “sociopath” gets our attention while it identifies and strokes us. Then we’re left helpless to disagree with the last part, “you’re going to collaborate.” Of course we will! Collaboration works for us normal people. QlikTech vice president of product management Donald Farmer’s slogan is so good, in fact, that we accept it without thought. Good thing, too, because collaboration is a wave the decision support industry…

  • BI’s “promised land”: bigger than tech

    Ted Cuzzillo
    14 Feb 2013 | 4:09 pm
    At first glance, this pair of tweets last week sounds like a version of BI’s traditional campfire song: I’ve seen the promised (BI) land, and we are there: databases that fly and process any data; BI tools that are easy to use and fast. Wow! I’d retire but mainstream firms will take 10 years to capitalize on all the new technology & overcome dirty data & politics. The refrain might go, “When tools fly, they will fly by themselves!” Other lines would caution us to update often, eliminate “politics,” and eat our carrots. I like to make fun of…
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    Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

  • Hadoop 2.0 -- From Open Source Projects to Enterprise Solutions

    Rick Sherman
    12 Jun 2013 | 1:13 pm
    Hot Technologies of 2013 with Robin Bloor, Rick Sherman and IBM June 19, 4:00 EST The promise of Hadoop can be seen in all kinds of ways -- the proliferation of open source projects; the virtually limitless applications of Big Data; the sheer number of vendors getting involved. But the real value only comes from a mature environment, and that's Hadoop 2.0. What are the component parts of a robust solution? How are today's cutting-edge organizations leveraging the power of Big Data? Register for this episode of Hot Technologies to hear veteran Analysts Dr. Robin Bloor of The Bloor…

  • Not a Cloud in the Sky? The Case for On-Premise Strategies (June 6 broadcast)

    Rick Sherman
    6 Jun 2013 | 10:08 am
    DM RadioThursday June 6, 3:00 PM EST We've all heard the selling points of cloud computing: low initial cost, ease of deployment, lack of maintenance concerns. But what about the downsides? In the long run, the costs can start to rival those of on-premise solutions, and coming back down from the cloud can prove somewhat tricky. And then there's loss of control. Indeed, the concept of “hybrid” cloud solutions will likely prevail for sometime. And there are some things that should stay safely on the ground. Register for this episode of DM Radio to hear hosts Eric Kavanagh and Justin…

  • Choosing your Business Intelligence Solution: Don’t be Afraid of the “Smoosh-ins®”

    Rick Sherman
    29 May 2013 | 11:09 am
    When an enterprise selects a BI solution, it should be able to get the combinations of BI functionality that best meets the varied needs of different.  Getting exactly what you want is a principle that was most deliciously embodied by Steve’s Ice Cream, an institution beloved by Boston-area college students beginning in 1973. Steve pioneered the “smoosh-in,” adding customer-selected goodies like crushed Heath Bars® and M&Ms® to his rich, slow-churned ice cream. (Now you can buy ice cream like this in any grocery store, but in the 1970s you had to wait in line at Steve’s…

  • Self-Service BI Myths and Truths

    Rick Sherman
    16 May 2013 | 5:00 am
    As I discussed in The Road to Self-Service BI, enterprises need a better understanding of self-service BI so they can avoid the common mistakes often made with it. Self-Service BI Truths The primary goal of self-service BI is to enable business people to perform business analytics in a timely and self-sufficient manner. A secondary goal for many business people is that the information they use in that analysis is consistent, comprehensive, correct and current. Supporting objectives: More pervasive and in-depth use of analytics in decision-making Reduced time to insight Improved business and…

  • The Road to Self-Service BI

    Rick Sherman
    14 May 2013 | 5:35 am
    For years vendors and pundits have heralded the age of self-service business intelligence (BI) thanks to the arrival of the latest generation of BI tools. First, they talked about how dashboard, OLAP and ad-hoc query were going to enable business people to create their own reports; now they proclaim that data discovery and data visualization tools are the answers to all your problems. While it’s true that each new generation of BI tools is more powerful and easier to use, when you get past the hype and look at real implementations, you’ll see that the most pervasive BI remains the…
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    BeyeNETWORK Content

  • Enterprise BI in the Cloud

    18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
    In this final article of his series on BI in the cloud, Jean-Michel Franco looks at three disruptive innovations and how they affect big data solutions and enterprise data warehousing in the cloud.

  • Visualization: New Ways to Weave Data into Your Business

    18 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
    With this article, Lee Feinberg begins a series on the strategic importance of visualization. The series details the steps you need to follow to transform your business intelligence visualizations so they can lead to better and faster decisions.

  • Chasing the Elusive Context

    13 Jun 2013 | 6:00 am
    Bill Inmon explains why it's not just the words themselves that are important when interpreting raw text.

  • Big Data: A Venn Diagram

    6 Jun 2013 | 10:00 am
    Bill Inmon provides a Venn diagram to illustrate how various types of data relate to big data and discusses the implications of those relationships.

  • How JetBlue Lost Me as a Loyal Customer

    3 Jun 2013 | 6:00 am
    With all of the data collected by airlines today, Leslie Ament wonders why they don't use it to keep their loyal customers happy.
 
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  • Strategies and Outlooks for BI newbies

    19 Jun 2013 | 4:37 pm
    From Blog: Lyndsay Wise

  • To Go Faster, Break the Rules!

    18 Jun 2013 | 2:58 pm
    From Blog: Wayne EckersonI've met quite a few BI professionals who privately--and sometimes publicly--confide that they can't move fast enough to keep their business clients happy. They secretly hope that I'll wipe away their shame, frustration and guilt by saying they aren't to blame for this discontent. They want me to indict the business people, saying they are too unreasonable, impatient, cheap, and short-term focused. Now, it's true that the business people are all these things, and more! But that doesn't mean the BI team is not at fault. If it takes two to tango, then both dancers in a…

  • Time to Outsource Your BI Program?

    11 Jun 2013 | 3:15 pm
    From Blog: Wayne EckersonLet's face it: many of you have had discouraging results with business intelligence (BI). It's not that you haven't tried, but the deck seems stacked against you. The business doesn't invest enough to get the BI results it wants, partially for budgetary reasons, but also because it doesn't trust IT with large sums of money. You still believe in the potential that BI can bring to your company, but you don't know how to make it happen. If you are in this situation, perhaps it's time to consider outsourcing your BI program. That's right. Outsource yourself--or at least a…

  • What is data mining and how is it related to DSS?

    9 Jun 2013 | 8:58 am
    From Blog: Dan Powerby Daniel PowerEditor, DSSResources.com Data mining is one of the IS/DSS buzzwords of the 1990s. Academics tend to use the related terms Knowledge Discovery and Intelligent Decision Support Methods (Dhar and Stein, 1997) or more derogatory terms like data surfing or data dredging. In general, data mining is "a class of analytical applications that help analysts and managers search for patterns in a data base". Both data mining and knowledge discovery can be considered as both a process and as a set of tools.Continue reading at…

  • To Embed or Build BI -- That is the Question!

    4 Jun 2013 | 6:58 am
    From Blog: Wayne EckersonSuppose you are an applications developer who wants to include reports or dashboards in your final product or perhaps give users the ability to explore data visually without boundaries, which is the current rage in this era of "big data." Do you build the BI functionality yourself or do you buy it from a reputable business intelligence (BI) vendor and then embed it into your application? There are pros and cons to both options, but since BI tools have matured significantly in the past 20 years and now run on modern hardware, software, and internet platforms, it's…
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    Manage By Walking Around

  • The Poison of Food

    Jonathan
    2 Jun 2013 | 3:00 pm
    For reasons I’d rather not go into, I decided to do a little research into food poisoning with a seemingly simple question: How does food get poisoned? It turns out that most food-related illnesses can be separated into two types: toxins and infection. The traditional use of the term food poisoning stems from the existence of toxins in food. These toxins come from chemicals and heavy metals in food or from mold growing on food that hasn’t been handled properly. In this sense, the food was poisoned. However, the more prevalent health issues come from bacterial and viral infections…

  • Surveying Satisfaction in Software

    Jonathan
    26 May 2013 | 1:32 pm
    Early in my management career, the HR department sent out a single-question survey which asked how satisfied we were with our jobs on a scale of 0 (very unsatisfied) to 4 (highly satisfied).  To my surprise, my group had the lowest average score (2.6) in the company. The HR VP predicted a mass exodus and told me that my annual bonus would be negatively impacted. I was mystified because I had heard very few complaints and nobody had left in the previous year. Not one to leave such mysteries unsolved, I convinced HR to ask my group three more questions: How likely are you to leave the…

  • Deceiving Without Lying

    Jonathan
    19 May 2013 | 6:47 pm
    “It’s true I deceived you but I wasn’t lying.” The statement, spoken brazenly by a work colleague, momentarily floored me. I thought deception and lying were the same thing. A little bit of research suggests there may be a difference. In ‘Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics’, the author claims there are three different kinds of deception: lying, spinning, and concealment. Lying is when a person makes a statement he knows to be false in order to deceive the target audience. “Lying can involve making up facts that one knows to be false or denying…

  • But Wait… There’s More!

    Jonathan
    12 May 2013 | 10:21 am
    Ever watch those TV infomercials late at night when you’re bored and can’t sleep?  Of course you do. And you’re likely to buy things you don’t really need as well. The most fascinating book I’ve read in a long time, ‘But Wait… There’s More,’ explains the science behind infomercials. Virtually every element of an infomercial is based on scientific research and designed to manipulate you into taking action. For example, infomercials have a higher return on investment when they air late at night, not just because airtime is less expensive, but because viewers defenses…

  • Is There An ‘I’ In Team?

    Jonathan
    5 May 2013 | 10:55 am
    Many popular phrases have their roots in sports. For example, the cliché “there is no ‘i’ in team” comes from the idea that a cohesive team of players is more likely to win games than a collection of individual superstars. Players are told to focus on the team’s overall success rather than their individual performance. The corollary to this idea is that stars who are high maintenance cause unrest in locker rooms which, in turn, causes poor performance in games. Neither of these ideas is necessarily true in sports or in business.  In a book titled ‘There Is an I in Team’,…
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  • Future of BI & Analytics

    Vikram Kole
    5 Jun 2013 | 10:49 pm
    Starting with Information Management and Reporting BI has changed dramatically over the years. The changing markets dynamics and management approach has resulted in some of the new trends in Analytics space. The current wave is about riding on Next Generation BI Technologies and Big Data Analytics. Let us have a look at the near future changes in BI & Analytics area that will drive the Enterprise Analytics initiatives. Big Data – Big Data will continue to be part of the analytics but it will be just a part of the larger picture instead of being the center of focus as it is now. Even for…

  • Value of Big Data

    Praktan Kadam
    26 May 2013 | 10:55 pm
    The term “big data” has been used to convey all sorts of concepts, including: huge quantities of data, real-time data, social media analytics, next generation data management, and much more. Irrespective of the label, organizations are starting to understand and explore how to process and analyze a vast array of information in new ways. In doing so, a small, but growing group of pioneers is achieving breakthrough business outcomes. Enter big data. Big data is not simply about growing data volumes — it’s also about the fact that the data being collected today is different in ways that…

  • The Dashboard Story with 1KEY Touch

    Praktan Kadam
    16 May 2013 | 8:11 am
    Companies today face the challenge of having a plethora of information available from disparate sources. Even when useful data is available, it is often too overwhelming to find it. In such scenarios you can make use of data visualization with self-service and transform how you view your business by interacting with sophisticated visual representations of performance. Perform data analysis with your own dashboards to gain new insights – and make informed decisions. 1KEY Touch Dashboard can help you illuminate your business with holistic view of key metrics and information. 1KEY Touch…

  • MAIA Intelligence is Winner of FICCI’s IIGP 2013

    Praktan Kadam
    10 May 2013 | 6:46 am
    MAIA Intelligence’s Vision of driving the ‘Democratization of Business Intelligence’ received a huge recognition in form of Winner of Innovator’s Competition of the India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2013. Driven by Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), the IIGP 2013 is a joint initiative of FICCI, the Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Indo-US Science and Technology Forum; Stanford Graduate School of Business and the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas. The aim of this programme is to accelerate…

  • The Dashboard Story – III

    Praktan Kadam
    3 May 2013 | 4:10 am
    In the previous posts we saw the needs and qualities of the effective dashboard visualization. Now we will see what dashboards facilitate for its users which was not possible or was not as effective without them. Dashboards continue to get a lot of attention in organizations who are looking for ways to help communicate their strategy, monitor critical information, and adjust their business playbook in real time – resulting in time and cost-saving benefits. Comprehensive Knowledge Knowledge is available in plenty on the web but too much of anything confuses. Dashboards are designed to make…
 
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    Business Intelligence News by Marcus Borba

  • Dilbert on Jargons

    26 May 2013 | 2:43 pm
    (Click on comic strip to view larger image) Dilbert by Scott Adams-Dilbert ©2013, Universal Uclick Published at January 09, 2013 in dilbert.com Via GoodData Corporation Facebook Page

  • Real-time Big Data Analytics: From Deployment to Production

    26 May 2013 | 2:28 pm
    David Smith, Vice President of Marketing and Community at Revolution Analytics, did a great presentation entitled Real-time Big Data Analytics: From Deployment to Production at Strata Conference 2013. YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiSU696iCcg According to the description of the lecture: "Taking data science into action requires deploying statistical models into production environments, usually with real-time processing requirements. Every company that relies on predictive models to drive their applications and operations has a different process for model deployment, but by…

  • Big Data Republic's list of the Top 20 Big Data names to follow on Twitter

    26 May 2013 | 12:52 pm
    A few days ago, the site Big Data Republic announced the top 20 big data names to follow on Twitter. I'm very honored to have been selected in the list at #10, with so great people. Thank you so much for everyone who voted in me. According the UBM site: "Using the #bigdata100 list (generated via community nominations and PeerIndex) as a starting point, judges chose their top seven big data tweeters, with votes counted up to create the final list. The final list, with judge's comments, can be found at http://www.bigdatarepublic.com/author.asp?section_id=3207&doc_id=263560."…

  • Big Data, Bigger Impact

    18 May 2013 | 6:34 pm
    Ken Rudin gave a great presentation on Big Data as keynote speaker at TDWI World Conference, happened early this month in Chicago, IL.  Ken is the Director of Analytics at Facebook, where he’s focused on ensuring that analytics is a key strategic asset for Facebook. He’s responsible for leveraging Facebook’s massive analytics platform to generate high-impact insights that optimize both the Facebook user experience and Facebook’s overall business. Watch and enjoy! YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKrw2TKfj4w

  • Dilbert on Big Data

    5 May 2013 | 8:55 pm
    (Click on comic strip to view larger image) Dilbert by Scott Adams-Dilbert ©2013, Universal Uclick Published at June 29, 2012 in dilbert.com
 
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    Peter Thomas - Award-winning Business Intelligence and Cultural Transformation Expert

  • The Great Divide – Worrying parallels between Windows 8 and the Xbox One

    Peter Thomas
    17 Jun 2013 | 4:43 pm
    Back in July 2012 in A William Tell Moment? I got a little carried away about the potential convergence between tablets and personal computers. Nearly a year later – and with the Surface Pro only becoming available in my native UK last month – I probably know better. The following is therefore a more balanced piece. It’s been a while since I put finger-tip to keyboard on this web-site. The occurrence which motivated me to do so was the arrival of my first new home computer since 2008 (yes unfortunately dear reader, the author is that much of a Luddite). The time since 2008 has…

  • Business Intelligence, a maturing industry?

    Peter Thomas
    22 Oct 2012 | 2:26 pm
    I was recently invited by recruitment consultancy La Fosse to chair an roundtable event for fellow Business Intelligence professionals. We held the meeting last Thursday evening in London. There was a good turn out with delegates representing the following industries (number of attendees in brackets): Insurance and affiliated (5, including me) Investment Banking and affiliated (2) Manufacturing (2) Media (2) Aviation (1) Public Sector (1) On-line (1) As chair there is always the dread of the tumbleweed moment; everyone staring at each other with nothing to say. However, I needn’t have…

  • Once again I am presenting at the IRM European Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Conference

    Peter Thomas
    21 Oct 2012 | 11:21 pm
    This IRM UK event will be taking place in central London from the 5th to 7th November 2012. As ever, it is co-located with the IRM Data Management & Information Quality Conference. Full details may be obtained from the IRM conference web-site here. The title of my presentation is: “Formulating a Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing Strategy”.   Follow @peterjthomas   Filed under: business intelligence Tagged: IRM UK

  • Facebook squares “puzzle”

    Peter Thomas
    1 Sep 2012 | 11:13 am
    This blog primarily deals with matters relating to business, technology and change; obviously with a major focus on how information provision overlaps with each of these. However there is the occasional divertimento relating to mathematics, physical science, or that most recent of -ologies, social media. The following article could claim some connections with both mathematics and social media, but in truth relates to neither. Its focus is instead on irritation, specifically a Facebook meme that displays the death-defying resilience of a horror movie baddie. My particular bête noire relates…

  • A Dictionary of the Business Intelligence Language

    Peter Thomas
    12 Jul 2012 | 3:45 pm
    Michael Koploy of on-line technology consulting company Software Advice recently asked me, together with four other people from the Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing community, to contribute some definitions of commonly-used technology jargon pertinent to our field. The results can be viewed in his article, BI Buzzword Breakdown. Readers may be interested in the differing, but hopefully complementary, definitions that were offered. In jockeying for space with my industry associates, only one of my definitions (that relating to Data Mining) was used. Here are two others, which were left…
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  • Basics of Data Handling for R beginners #rstats

    Ajay Ohri
    12 Jun 2013 | 9:51 am
    Assigning Objects We can create new data objects and variables quite easily within R. We use the = or the → operator to denote assigning an object to it’s name. For the purpose of this article we will use = to assign objectnames and objects. This is very useful when we are doing data manipulation as we can reuse the manipulated data as inputs for other steps in our analysis.   Types of Data Objects in R Lists A list is simply a collection of data. We create a list using the c operator. The following code creates a list named numlist from 6 input numeric data…

  • Data Munging using #rstats Part 1 -Understanding Data Quality

    Ajay Ohri
    12 Jun 2013 | 9:46 am
    This is a series of posts on Data Munging using R. we will examine the various ways to input data and examine errors in the data input stage. We will accordingly study ways to detect errors and rectify them using the R language. People estimate that almost 60-70% of a project’s time goes in the data input, data quality and data validation stage. By the principle of Garbage-In -Garbage -Out, we believe that an analysis is only as good as the input quality of data. Thus data quality is both an integral part as well as one of the first stages in a project before we move to comprehensive…

  • Big Data : Building Big Brother’s Evil Empire

    Ajay Ohri
    11 Jun 2013 | 12:14 pm
    Background- The Russell–Einstein Manifesto was issued in London on July 9, 1955 by Bertrand Russell in the midst of the Cold War. It highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. The signatories included eleven pre-eminent intellectuals and scientists, including Albert Einstein, who signed it just days before his death on April 18, 1955. It is time Data Scientists most of whom have tacitly accepted that open source and open societies are movements for good, come together and stop enabling Big Brothers in…

  • How to help your government keep the world safe using statistics #rstats #python #sas

    Ajay Ohri
    9 Jun 2013 | 7:26 pm
    Big Data for Big Brother. Now playing. At a computer near you. How to help water the tree of liberty using statistics? Use R or Use Python or use SAS software SAS/CIA from the last paragraph of http://www.sas.com/offices/asiapacific/india/sasnews/pressclippings/ET_CD_Mumbai_Jul12.pdf   Tagged: Apache Hadoop, Big Brother, Big Data, Google, Languages, Mapreduce, National Security Agency, Programming, python, sas, Verizon Communications

  • Thoughts on Guardian’s expose of US Govt Data Mining

    Ajay Ohri
    6 Jun 2013 | 3:51 pm
    I am writing this sitting in Canada, in a language given to me by my education and colonial history. Some of my best friends and mentors have been Americans, Europeans and Asians. I will try and state this as objectively as possible. If China’s government sees your data or even data of dissidents, it is considered bad, but if the US Government does it, it is considered okay. Is that really okay? I would trust the SCOTUS, the IRS, the Congress, but I am not sure I should trust the Pentagon, NSA and White House with zero restraints. In reality no human eye can see so much data. They have…
 
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  • WorldWideMarkets, an online forex broker, releases upgraded trading platform

    18 Jun 2013 | 6:13 am
    Amsterdam, Netherlands (PRWEB UK) 17 December 2012 WorldWideMarkets, a leading retail foreign exchange broker, today announced the release of an upgrade to Flash Trader their proprietary trading platform offering multi-asset forex, CFD and Gold trading platform which launched last year. The new version offers a new GUI, further enhancing the already intuitive user experience. New features include an easy to use Market Board price and execution layout, enhanced trading calculator and a currency trading market news feed in English, Arabic and Chinese. Flash Trader 2.4 builds on its signature…

  • Finding the Top Stocks: Strategies for Success Top Stocks 2012

    18 Jun 2013 | 6:02 am
    Finding the Top Stocks: Strategies for Success Top Stocks 2012 For the first time, Top Stocks 2012, the 18th edition of the bestselling Australian share market bible, comes with a free e-book companion, Finding the Top Stocks—Strategies for Success. A short guide, also written by respected financial journalist Martin Roth, Finding the Top Stocks—Strategies for Success examines eight strategies and market theories and indicates how you can use Top Stocks 2012 to take advantage of these strategies. Price: Your browser does not support iframes. Related Stock Market Products

  • Century 21 Accounting Foreign Exchange Transaltion Service: Simulation/Manual for Foreign Exchange Students

    16 Jun 2013 | 6:01 am
    Century 21 Accounting Foreign Exchange Transaltion Service: Simulation/Manual for Foreign Exchange Students List Price: $ 26.95 Price: Your browser does not support iframes.

  • Recent Report from Phoenix Marketing International Shows Active Traders? Industry Engagement Remains Strong, A Modest Increase Since 4Q12

    15 Jun 2013 | 6:13 am
    Rhinebeck, NY (PRWEB) April 11, 2013 Phoenix Marketing International, one of the top research companies in the U.S., released its quarterly Active Trader Industry Engagement Index among individual investors placing 10+ online trades in a typical month, accompanied by anticipated short-term account behavior. To view these findings please click here. The quarterly Phoenix Active Trader study has been conducted since October 2005 and was recently administered to 1,205 traders age 21+ for whom a majority report household investable assets of at least $ 100K and they place at least 4 online…

  • Trading Stock Options: Basic Option Trading Strategies And How I’ve Used Them To Profit In Any Market

    14 Jun 2013 | 6:03 am
    Trading Stock Options: Basic Option Trading Strategies And How I’ve Used Them To Profit In Any Market In Trading Stock Options, experienced option trader Brian Burns explains the basics of stock options and shows you how to trade the most successful option strategies. As you begin your journey on the option path, you’ll have the luxury of real-life trade examples to show you the way. The diagrams and charts help turn the complex world of options into easy to visualize and simple to understand strategies that even the most novice of traders can utilize.  Trading Stock…
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  • Spotfire’s Michael O’Connell: Why Data Visualization Matters

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    19 Jun 2013 | 5:55 am
    Michael O’Connell, Spotfire’s chief data scientist, really digs data visualization. So much so that he wrote a book about it. Since this is a hot topic in data analytics today, we want to give you a look inside the value of data visualization from O’Connell’s point of view. 1. Why do you think visuals explain data better? What is the business benefit?  O’Connell: Graphics force people across the business to see what they never expected to see. Information visuals, combined with descriptive and predictive analytics, highlight the unknown unknowns in data in a…

  • Data Analysis: Zodiac Signs and Crime

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    18 Jun 2013 | 5:55 am
    OK, I’m back with another installment of strange, fun, weird (insert your own adjective here) news from the world of big data and data analytics. You know, like the post I wrote about data analytics and the Loch Ness Monster. However, this tale comes not from across the pond, but rather from our neighbors to the north. It seems that near the end of 2011, police in the rural town of Chatham-Kent, Ontario figured it would it be a good idea – for some reason known only to them – to rank the crimes committed that year by the criminals’ Zodiac signs. Although violent crime is rare in…

  • Data Analytics: Shaping the Future of Energy

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    17 Jun 2013 | 5:55 am
    Despite continued excitement regarding progress around harnessing renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power, technological innovations are also helping oil and gas refiners discover new ways of mining deposits that until recently weren’t possible. For instance, the use of 3D seismic data testing techniques and other advanced technologies has enabled Noble Energy to discover an estimated 8.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas in the Mediterranean Sea 90 miles west of Haifa, Israel. The discovery, made in 2009, has led Israel to begin pumping gas from a rig in the offshore Tamar…

  • The Need for Speed: Data Analysis for Real-Time Decision Making

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    13 Jun 2013 | 5:55 am
    While there has been intense publicity focused on the sheer volume of data swamping corporate networks, companies seeking to successfully exploit big data must also be able to quickly and easily adjust their analysis efforts, according to a new study. The best performing companies are more likely than laggards to allow users to interact with data and to customize their analytics environments to meet their own needs, notes IT research firm Aberdeen Group. Leading companies report that they find the information they need to inform decisions 85% of the time; that’s a stark contrast to less…

  • Social Analytics to Assemble an Army of Brand Advocates

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    12 Jun 2013 | 5:55 am
    Socially active customers wield a great deal of influence on the behaviors of their friends and families. Consider this: 60% of Facebook users and 79% of Twitter users say they’re more likely to recommend a brand to their friends after interacting with that brand on a social network, according to a survey by research firm Chadwick Martin Bailey. And features such as Twitter’s retweeting and Facebook’s sharing options make it easy for fans to immediately promote their positive customer experiences to others, as Aaron Parson notes in an article on the topic. Indeed, customers’ uses…
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  • PR Summit 20% Discount

    pemo
    17 Jun 2013 | 9:00 am
    The PR Summit curates and assembles top media influencers, entrepreneurs, marketers, and public relations practitioners under one-tent. This highly culled and selected group takes part in intense panel discussions, debate, keynotes, breakout-sessions and networking. This curation has a compass focused on how content creation, real-time personalization, SEO, and story-telling is …
 
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  • D-Day: Leadership At All Levels

    Erroin A. Martin
    7 Jun 2013 | 12:08 am
    Today is an interesting day to reflect upon leadership.   Sixty-nine years ago as the sun set on the English Channel, the beaches of Normandy were pot-marked, littered with shell casings, bodies stacked to await mass burials and an Allied force pushing into France.  What was hotly contested earlier in the morning was now a makeshift port moving men and supplies to a grueling front.   Leadership was found at all levels that day.   I can remember seeing “Saving Private Ryan” and its first thirty minutes still makes my hair stand on end and invoke tears in my eyes.  The…

  • When A Dongle Joke Leads To Firings

    Erroin A. Martin
    29 Mar 2013 | 10:58 am
    (This post could also be called “How People Forget That Conversations In Public Are Not Really Private If Others Are Around to Hear Them” or “Stop. Think. Don’t Tweet.” or “Be The Adult And Confront The Bullies”) Do you know what a dongle is?   Neither did I until I stumbled upon an article in Tech Crunch, A Dongle Joke That Spiraled Way Out Of Control, by Kim-Mai Cutler, about a dongle, forking (is that like a spork?), and overheard jokes.   I won’t make your eyes bleed by rehashing the story.  Instead you can follow what happened in detail…

  • 3 Horrible Business Owner Traits Turned Into Positives

    Erroin A. Martin
    12 Mar 2013 | 11:27 pm
    In my previous post I outlined four distinct horrific traits a small business owner could have.  While I am sure it has sent shudders of terror up your spine, by no means are bad bosses limited to those four traits.  There are as many as there are stars in the sky. In keeping up with my promise, this article will address how I helped each of those business owner types — save one — overcome their traits and find success. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy Scrooging In The Right Place The key in working with this…

  • 4 Horrible Business Owner Traits

    Erroin A. Martin
    1 Mar 2013 | 9:34 am
    One of the pleasures of working with many different types of companies is that I get to see a variety of business leaders.  Most of them have been successfully in business for a period of time before engaging with me.  They usually require my services to fine tune their operations or plan out new strategy and tactics to change their direction.  There are a few leaders I have worked with that struggled to maintain daily operations and it took courage from everyone to change their business troubles. There is a common theme between the business owners that are successful and the business…

  • 30 60 90 Days To Execute

    Erroin A. Martin
    21 Feb 2013 | 10:59 am
    In my previous blog about business planning, I discussed the method of backwards planning.  Whether you are planning a marketing campaign, a social media initiative, a sales plan, or even something unheard of yet… it is best to execute those items in manageable pieces. …break up the tasks into those easily executable, manageable chunks. It is best first to understand that backwards planning sets your milestones.  It helps your lay down the timeframe expectations for the various pieces of your plan.  Now you have to execute it.  This is where the principle of the 30 60 90 day…
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  • Why are Emails Getting Bulked?

    Anandkumar Neralagi Shivajappa
    19 Jun 2013 | 1:56 am
    What’s bulking? Emails are meant to land in the inbox. But if they are routing to the spam or junk folder instead, that’s called bulking. Why are my emails getting bulked? Take a look, it could be due to one of these reasons – Lack of or improper authentication (Are DKIM and SPF keys in [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Sales & Marketing: Do They Have Anything in Common?

    Tim Duranleau
    18 Jun 2013 | 2:45 am
    Of course there are plenty of differences between sales and marketing but more importantly, there are some commonalities as well. While the two warring factions like to believe they are from two separate planets when they spar over leads, I could think of over half a dozen interesting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Lead Generation: Little Things That Matter Much

    Tim Duranleau
    13 Jun 2013 | 12:23 am
    Do you think about lead generation while in the shower and when you sip on your Friday evening beer? You should. Leave no stone unturned. Lead generation is the lifeblood for B2B marketers today. It is the sole purpose of your existence. Leads are the fruit of all your demand generation efforts... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • Don’t Let Early-Stage Pipeline Opportunities Languish

    Shreesha
    11 Jun 2013 | 2:58 am
    Humans are wired to take the path of least resistance, absent other motivations. A million years of evolution favored those who want to collect the maximum bounty with the least amount of effort. But giving into this tendency too often is not good for a sales organization. Our natural inclination... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

  • What is a Feedback Loop?

    Anandkumar Neralagi Shivajappa
    10 Jun 2013 | 1:12 am
    Know what happens behind the scenes after hitting the “Report Spam” button. Subscribers complain for a lot of reasons, like irrelevant emails, unsolicited emails, frequent mailings, etc. When subscribers or email recipients want to complain, they hit the “Report Spam” button... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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  • How To Optimize Contact Forms for Conversions

    Ben Van Der Veen
    19 Jun 2013 | 9:00 am
    This infographic, courtesy of QuickSprout, shows how such seemingly granular things like how many fields your conversion form has, or how much personal information you ask for, significantly affects how many leads you convert. For instance, did you know that forms using “submit” have an almost 3% decrease in conversion rate? Or that forms with 6 or more fields have only a 15% conversion rate, while forms with only three fields have a 25% conversion rate? Get quick tips on optimizing your marketing forms for lead capture.

  • B2B Email Marketing Tips That Work

    Heidi Anspaugh
    18 Jun 2013 | 12:14 pm
    Email marketing is one of the most effective marketing techniques around, but it does have some unique caveats. It can be really effective in increasing awareness, sales, and engagement, but it can actually repel people if it is done the wrong way. It takes a certain amount of finesse to find the right people and send them the right content at the right time. Here are some tips about how to create a B2B email marketing campaign that really works. Focus on creating valuable content The most effective thing you can do for your email list is focus on creating valuable content. The content in…

  • Where CRM and Content Marketing Collide

    Heidi Anspaugh
    14 Jun 2013 | 2:02 pm
    Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools have traditionally worked in favor of salespeople. They allow you, as a salesperson, to track, measure, and monitor just about every aspect of the sales cycle. The funny thing is, the deeper you go into the world of CRM tools, the more they start to look like content management tools. Most marketing departments need to gather sophisticated information from the web and deliver that to sales. They need to monitor and track where that marketing data comes from so sales can use that data to make smart sales decisions. All of these things can and are…

  • Great Minds & A Great Time: Insider Summit 2013 Recap

    Heidi Anspaugh
    7 Jun 2013 | 10:50 am
    The second annual Insider Summit was held a couple weeks ago on May 21-22 at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. We think it did a great job building off the momentum from last year’s first Summit . Last year’s event had 16 sessions, 35 speakers, and a full morning of training with nine different tracks on best practices and sales methodology. This year we kicked it up a notch and hosted 26 sessions, 61 industry experts, and added a new track on account management. If you’re a stats fanatic, you might want to refer back to our earlier blog and this free infographic about all…

  • An Inside Look at Insider Summit 2013

    Heidi Anspaugh
    5 Jun 2013 | 1:25 pm
    InsideView’s marketing team has been pounding the tradeshow floors lately with all the spring-summer conferences, both as attendees and participants. The most anticipated was our own Insider Summit 2013 last May. The second annual summit looks to be a powerful ongoing yearly gathering of the best and brightest in sales intelligence, social selling, and social CRM, but was also a fun, successful and educational event. In addition to our roster of engaging keynotes, panel sessions, and tracks, there were a few parties along the way and lots of networking. To illustrate the high level of…
 
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    Business-Intelligence

  • Big Data, are we there yet?

    ngutierrez
    14 Jun 2013 | 9:59 am
    A couple of years back, I wrote my first blog on Big data: –Getting in Shape with Big Data. While almost two years have gone by – almost an eternity for the Information age standards – I keep hearing the same question from my customer visits: are we there yet? Reality is that Big Data is just starting to deliver – Yes the value is indeed real and tangible – but the technology is on the early stages and it takes a lot of vision, expertise and sheer hard work to make a Big Data solution work. Hadoop has become the least expensive file system in the world. Many organizations are…

  • Extended Results Contributes Over $35 Million to the Local Economy

    phusting
    14 Jun 2013 | 9:55 am
    Redmond, WA | June 14, 2013 – Climbing out of the worst global recession in over 50 years has been a slow and trying process for many companies – but at Extended Results, a business intelligence services and solutions company, they’ve played a key role in contributing to the local Seattle economy.  It seems that most small business owners are not yet feeling the effects of an improving economy, so what makes Extended Results different? Loyal clients, strategic investments and forward thinking innovation has not only helped Extended Results survive, but also resulted in $35 million…

  • Big Data, are we there yet?

    ngutierrez
    10 Jun 2013 | 3:20 pm
    A couple of years back, I wrote my first blog on Big data: – Getting in Shape with Big Data. While almost two years have gone by – almost an eternity for the Information age standards – I keep hearing the same question from my customer visits: are we there yet?  Reality is that Big Data is just starting to deliver – Yes the value is indeed real and tangible – but the technology is on the early stages and it takes a lot of vision, expertise and sheer hard work to make a Big Data solution work. Hadoop has become the least expensive file system in the world. Many organizations…

  • Logi Plays Nice With Others

    mpugh
    4 Jun 2013 | 11:05 am
    I’ve blogged in the past about how Logi is superior to our competitors in many regards – such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports. However, we also realize that significant investments in time and money have often gone into existing BI implementations. read more Logixml Read Original Post

  • Windows Global features Extended Results #pushbi #microsoft #windows8 #extendedresults

    phusting
    31 May 2013 | 3:28 pm
      Microsoft’s Global Windows Enterprise, “Extended Results grows their business…”To see Extended Results in action visit Microsoft. To learn more about Extended Results visit us online or contact us today!         Read Original Post
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  • Greetings from Informatica World 2013!

    Craig Harmon
    5 Jun 2013 | 12:47 pm
    We’re glad to become an official partner of Informatica and showcase JReport at this year’s Informatica World 2013 on June 4-6. Informatica embeds JReport inside its products to provide archived data visualization. If you’re at Informatica World, come by our booth E13 to say hi. Follow us on Twitter @Jinfonet. Check out these photos of the show:  

  • Five Common Mistakes when Creating Effective Dashboards

    Arina Levchenko
    28 May 2013 | 11:36 am
    BI Dashboards are intended to provide an at-a-glance overview of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which reflect the state of business. They need to present relevant data that can be immediately interpreted and actionable, allowing users to make informed decisions. While a dashboard should present data as simply as possible, there are still a set of guidelines to follow and mistakes to avoid. This blog is intended to highlight the most common missteps in creating effective dashboards. For a deeper review of dashboard best practices, please check out a recent blog on Designing Better…

  • Jinfonet and Amazon to Provide BI in the Cloud

    Dean Yao
    2 May 2013 | 12:58 am
    More businesses are standing up private clouds, deploying their apps and data to public clouds, or even using a combination of these in hybrid clouds. No matter which cloud model your business chooses, its essential for your BI solution and reporting software to also be cloud-based. The solution should be able to connect to data in the cloud while being easy to use, accessible from anywhere, self-serviceable, and highly scalable. We have supported JReport running on Amazon EC2 for some time. As the shift in computing to the cloud gains momentum, there is naturally a need for an extended BI…

  • Make Your Voice Heard! – 2013 Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market Study

    Arina Levchenko
    18 Mar 2013 | 11:58 am
    Are you interested in the current state of Business Intelligence (BI)? Do you want to know what vendors and products you should be on the look out for in the near future? And most importantly – do you want to share your input? This is your chance. The 2013 Wisdom of the Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market Study is an annual survey of the state of the Business Intelligence marketplace, independently conducted by Dresner Advisory Services. The findings, published Spring 2013 (and complimentary for qualified participants) will build on previous years’ research and will expand to…

  • Empowering End User Visualization with JReport

    Greg Harris
    1 Mar 2013 | 7:39 am
    We hear a lot of discussion about ad hoc reporting and self-service reporting.  Are end users really capable of understanding what data they need to see and designing a report for their own requirements or is it easier for them just to make the request to IT and wait for it to be delivered to them? My first experience with databases was with a network database sold by Intel called System 2000 that was one of the most popular databases in the 1970s and is still in use today.  Later I joined a new database vendor called Unify that started the same year as Oracle.  Unify also was originally a…
 
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    The Solopreneur Life®

  • Why I’ve Chosen The Old Reader to Replace Google Reader

    Larry Keltto
    9 Jun 2013 | 10:04 pm
    If you’re an avid Google Reader user, like I am, you know that Google is pulling the plug on its popular feed aggregator. Reader will go dark on July 1. I’ve been playing with various replacements for Google Reader, and I’ve decided to go with The Old Reader. I love trying out new tools and I’m prone to switching to new environments. In this case, however, I’m moving to The Old Reader because I want something that looks and works like Reader, which has been a wonderfully simple, efficient tool for me. The Old Reader won me over because it doesn’t try to…

  • Two New Offerings From TheSolopreneurLife.com

    Larry Keltto
    6 Jun 2013 | 5:50 pm
    I want to let you know about two new offerings from TheSolopreneurLife.com. The first is The Solopreneur Emergency Turnaround Program. This program is for you if: 1. You’re in a really bad spot financially and need to turn things around quickly. 2. Your business growth has stalled. 3. You hate your day job, and you need to get out ASAP! Why a turnaround program? I’ve been doing a LOT of consulting lately for solo businesses that need to make big things happen in a hurry. And the solopreneur surveys I’ve conducted — including one in May — show that many solopreneurs are desperately…

  • To Remain Connected to Your Market, Be Like a Parent of Young Children

    Larry Keltto
    5 Jun 2013 | 7:05 pm
    My wife says our kids make us smart. She means that our daughters make us aware of things in the world that we otherwise would know nothing about. For example, when our girls were small we became very familiar with a parallel universe of: Safety: outlet plugs, edge and corner guards, bathtub seats, back-facing car seats, baby monitors, water wings. Books: When Hippos Go Berserk, Moo Baa La La La, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Lily’s Purple Plastic Purse, We’re Going On a Bear Hunt, Pigs Aplenty Pigs Galore (my favorite). Entertainment: The Wiggles,…

  • De-Flash Your Website, If You Haven’t Done So Already

    Larry Keltto
    5 Jun 2013 | 9:41 am
    I’m still seeing a LOT of websites that depend on Flash. In a world that increasingly depends on browsers in mobile devices, Flash has become irrelevant. It doesn’t run on the vast majority of the mobiles, and Adobe has abandoned mobile Flash development. Peachpit.com sums it up: There’s probably a new, special circle of hell for designers who bamboozled their restaurant clients into using cutesy Flash-only sites after the release of the iPhone in 2007. The main mission of a restaurant site is to bring in customers, and a site that prevents people from looking up information…

  • E-junkie Provides Real-Time Case Study In How Not To Use Social Media

    Larry Keltto
    1 Jun 2013 | 8:35 pm
    Update at 9:26 p.m. CDT, June 2. Early this evening e-junkie posted: “We experienced a major network outage last night; further details posted in our Service Status forum here: e-junkie.com/bb/topic/6488. The post at the forum read: “We experienced a major network outage the evening of Saturday, June 1, which our redundant network failed to handle automatically as it should have. Service was restored at approximately 11:30 pm MST (June 2 0630 UTC), but a full determination of the cause of the outage has not been made yet. We are preliminarily scheduling further testing Sunday…
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    Statspotting!

  • The Average American Spends $169 On Mother’s Day, $120 For Father’s Day

    junior
    16 Jun 2013 | 4:03 pm
    That is not so surprising if you count in the fact that Mom’s stuff is costlier than Dad’s. But as a stat it is still a good one to spot – the average spend on Moms is some 41 percent more than the average spend on Dads on their respective days (Source) Not so surprising since Dads anyways spend less time with children in general. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post The Average American Spends $169 On Mother’s Day, $120 For Father’s Day appeared first on Statspotting!.

  • 27 Billion Messages In One Day: WhatsApp Creates A New Record

    junior
    13 Jun 2013 | 2:39 pm
    We had spotted several Whatsapp stats in the past – we spotted this stat today, that it hit an all-time high record of 27 billion messages in one day. One day. (Source) How do we digest this number? Let us try this: at 1.5 billion smartphones in the world, this is an average of 18 messages per smartphone on that one single day. Someone said WhatsApp is the new Facebook. These numbers make it difficult for Facebook to match up. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post 27 Billion Messages In One Day: WhatsApp Creates A…

  • $850 Billion: What China Will Spend On Water In The Next Decade

    junior
    2 Jun 2013 | 4:49 pm
    Well, it is one of those numbers that make you go ‘wow’. We spotted this stat today, that China has budgeted close to a trillion dollars – okay, not a trillion – but 850 billion dollars to get its water supplies right. This amount would be spent over the next decade (Source) The beneficiary would be Singapore – which has more than 100 companies operating in the water sector, which already operate close to 10 billion dollars worth of international water projects. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter…

  • Housing: Case-Shiller Index To Show A 12 Percent YoY Increase In April

    junior
    2 Jun 2013 | 8:35 am
    Call the index inflated – it doesn’t matter. Housing is back, and how. The Case-Shiller index for April is expected to show more than a 12 percent Year-on-Year increase – an eye-popping number by all measures (Source) There are many who make the case that the index is currently overstating the house appreciation – but even if you take away the inflated part, the fact is that housing is back in a very strong way. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post Housing: Case-Shiller Index To Show A 12 Percent…

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 Statistics: 10 Million Units Sold In Four Weeks

    junior
    24 May 2013 | 12:35 am
    All Samsung records have been smashed with this one – we spotted this stat today, that Samsung’s latest phone, the S4, has broken all records and has sold some 10 million units in the month since its launch – making it Samsung’s ‘fastest selling smartphone ever’. (Source) How do these numbers compare with the past? Try this: the S3 took 50 days to reach this milestone. You get the picture. For Interesting Statistics Everyday, Find Statspotting on Facebook and Follow Statspotting on Twitter The post Samsung Galaxy S4 Statistics: 10 Million Units Sold In Four…
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  • 7 Steps to Selling More with a Business Website

    Douglas Idugboe
    19 Jun 2013 | 12:59 pm
    One of the primary jobs of a business website is to convert visitors into customers. If you want to sell more, then learning the seven steps to selling more with a business website is absolutely critical for your brand. In order to get the most out of a business website, avoid common mistakes many people make online. Also, learn as much as you can about e-commerce copywriting. According to Kissmetrics, “properly written e-commerce copy can make a HUGE difference on your website. It’s not uncommon to see proper copywriting increase search traffic by 50% and conversion rates by 30%.” 1.

  • 10 Must-Have Marketing Technologies

    Douglas Idugboe
    17 Jun 2013 | 8:35 am
    Over the years, there have been drastic and rapid changes in marketing technologies. In fact, advances in the technology behind online marketing take place so frequently it’s a challenge to keep up with everything. Marketing professionals also have to carefully examine how any new marketing technologies will work with new and existing marketing initiatives. With all of the marketing tools and solutions available to help with marketing automation, customer relationship management, social media, analytics, email, and project management, it’s easy to lose focus. Here are 10 must-have digital…

  • Tony Hawk and Operation Smile: Spreading Joy One Smile at a Time

    2morrowknight
    12 Jun 2013 | 2:26 pm
    This post was co-written by  Amy Neumann. Watching a child beam with joy, a wide smile across her face, can fill you with wonder, awe, and inspiration. The happiness children carry with them is unbounded and expressed at every opportunity, big or small. But for some children with cleft lip or cleft palate, even the simple human emotion of smiling is impossible. Operation Smile, and world-renowned athlete Tony Hawk, are on a mission to create more smiles. “To most of us a smile is an effortless expression. Something we take for granted, like eating, speaking, socializing. There are…

  • Goodsearch: Your Simple, Everyday Online Actions Can Help Others

    2morrowknight
    10 Jun 2013 | 1:48 pm
    This was co-written by Amy Neumann. The best portion of a good life is little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness… ~ William Wordsworth In a recent interview with Scott Garell, CEO of Goodsearch, we talked about some of the ways their “search with heart” model has grown, now encompassing multiple ways your simple, everyday online actions can help your favorite cause. More than 15 million people used Goodsearch last year to support more than 100,000 non-profits and schools. Since 2006, Goodsearch users have raised more than $9 million, participated in over 1.1 billion…

  • 7 Offline Activities That Drive Online Success

    Douglas Idugboe
    4 Jun 2013 | 10:49 am
    I’d like to share my thoughts on a topic that’s rarely discussed: offline tactics for driving online business success. Many internet marketers who promote the so-called “internet lifestyle” fail to mention that much of their online success is the result of actions they took offline. In some cases, focusing on the right offline activities can give you more ROI than online marketing. Here are seven activities you can take that will boost your online business. 1. Invest in quality business cards Business cards may seem low-tech and old-fashioned but they are still as effective as ever.
 
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  • Health Canada to Require Plain Language on Drug Labels

    Admin-Sebastien
    18 Jun 2013 | 5:00 am
    Why clearer drug labels could prevent hospital visits By: Ocean-Leigh Peters, Staff Writer Photo by Jake Wright, courtesy of the Mental Health Commission of Canada Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq announced on Friday that Health Canada will require plain language in place of the medical jargon on prescription and non-prescription drugs. Standardizing the format of labels and mandatory mock-ups from manufacturers will also be part of Health Canada’s approach for making drug labels more user-friendly. Health Canada will also require drug manufacturers to prove that drug names will not…

  • NY Court Rules Unpaid Internships Violate Labor Laws

    Admin-Sebastien
    18 Jun 2013 | 5:00 am
    US District judge questions the legality of internships on the set of Fox Searchlight Picture’s Black Swan By: Tom DiNardo, Staff Writer Image courtesy of Mat Melanson Attention all students and recent grads looking to fill out your resume with internships at some of the biggest companies in the world – your days of unpaid work may be numbered. US district judge William H. Pauley III ruled in New York last week that Fox Searchlight Pictures had violated minimum wage and overtime laws by not paying interns working on the 2010 production of Black Swan. A pair of interns, Eric Glatt and…

  • Business Travel Is Bad for Your Personal Life

    Admin-Kelly
    18 Jun 2013 | 5:00 am
    Being away from home increases your tendency to engage in “bad behaviours” By: Maya Sokolovski, Staff Writer via cogdogblog, Flickr Business travel is becoming increasingly unpopular, recent findings show, with the majority of Americans holding a negative view of it. According to a survey conducted by virtual services company ON24, a full year is spent on business travel over the course of a career averaging 40 years in duration, and that year spent on travel supposedly takes a toll on a traveller’s personal life. … 94% of Americans believe that people who were away from…

  • Canada Lacks Restriction on Ex-convicts

    Admin-Katherine
    17 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am
    Compared to the United States, Canada attempts to provide a less discriminatory transition for offenders By Tom DiNardo, Staff Writer Much to the uproar of the surrounding community, two ex-convicts were released in New Brunswick earlier this April. Both men were convicted sex offenders. The first was convicted of sexual offenses in the 1980s and was released once his statutory release had been reached, two thirds of the way through his full sentence. The other was convicted in 2001 for sexual assault. While local communities are nervous about the prospective danger in their area, there is…

  • Ahead of the Pack

    Saif Qureshi
    16 Jun 2013 | 5:00 am
    “While things are definitely more competitive these days, you should still focus your efforts on the three or four places where you would like to work.” Republished from Career Insider By J.K. Radomski You’ve always dreamed about taking the business world by storm and believed your confidence and grades would be enough to take you there. But the economy is in a slump and that creates a whole new reality. While jobs are still available, you’re not just competing against your classmates for these coveted spots, but against experienced businesspeople who have been downsized and…
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  • Logi Plays Nice With Others

    mbozman
    4 Jun 2013 | 11:05 am
    I’ve blogged in the past about how Logi is superior to our competitors in many regards - such as Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Crystal Reports. However, we also realize that significant investments in time and money have often gone into existing BI implementations. read more

  • The Business Intelligence Gathered from Wifi'ing the Showroom

    matt pugh
    16 May 2013 | 6:37 am
    The following blog post was originally published by Faizeen Khandaker, president Xtream IT, a Logi Analytics partner. read more

  • What Good is Embedded Analytics? The Quest for Identifying ROI

    mbozman
    9 May 2013 | 6:27 am
    Our customers, at times, achieve an ROI from Logi Analytics technology that they’re able to accurately measure. In some cases, they’ve even won awards, such as Islington Council Parking Services and Grand Crowne Resorts. read more

  • Actionable Analytics: Transforming the User Experience by Merging Insight with Action

    Alvin Wong
    9 Apr 2013 | 1:35 pm
    The most fervent fans of Logi Info tell us that they have transformed the end user experience and enhanced operational efficiency within their organization. Often, this is achieved by utilizing the platform’s unique ability to perform database write backs and to initiate business processes directly from a report or dashboard. In effect, analytics is providing not only the way for users to understand and interpret data, and also the interface by which to act on the information. Here are three reasons for this ongoing trend: read more

  • Excel Hell is No Joke

    mbozman
    1 Apr 2013 | 12:53 pm
    Happy April Fool’s Day. I laughed out loud at the news story, “Greeks may have to abandon their unique alphabet and embrace Latin characters under new plans that the troika promises will save the country millions every year.”  read more
 
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  • 7 Tips for Improving Cash Flow

    My name
    19 Jun 2013 | 6:12 am
    Simple tips for cash management! http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2013/06/17/2765444/7-tips-for-improving-small-business.html

  • The Person Behind the Voice – Carole Thuringer

    My name
    17 Jun 2013 | 6:11 am
    By Stephanie Elsen Carole Thuringer joined Red Wing Software’s support team 16 years ago. Carole has been an asset to Red Wing Software in a variety of ways over the years. After several years of working on the support team, she managed a network of reselling partners. She then went on to start and develop the ‘How2’ documentation system and videos, and then also created and launched Red Wing Software University (RWSU) which customers still use every single day. Most recently, Carole has taken on the role of Staff Accountant, though she continues to work on the RWSU, the…

  • Customers in the News

    My name
    14 Jun 2013 | 6:41 am
    CenterPoint Accounting and Payroll customer, Swisslane Dairy was featured in the May 21st issue of Progressive Dairyman in the article, “Michigan Dairies Featured in Robotic Milking Panel Discussion.” Swisslane Dairy is one of two farms who currently use the Lely brand of robots. Read the whole story here.

  • Notes from the President

    My name
    12 Jun 2013 | 6:12 am
    Be prepared and have a plan. The last few weeks have had some excellent and unfortunate examples of the importance of being prepared and having a plan. The recent weather tragedies around the country, especially in the south central United States, are perfect examples of how critical it can be if you’re not prepared for the possibility of severe weather events. Many people’s lives were saved because of severe weather warnings, and their own individual preparedness with storm shelters or evacuation plans. Even the less severe weather events that have been prevalent throughout the…

  • What to Look For in Nonprofit Accounting Software Budget Management

    My name
    7 Jun 2013 | 1:21 pm
    By Stephanie Elsen Looking for nonprofit accounting software? Good budget management is a crucial component of the system you choose. Here are some questions to ask vendors about budget management tools. Can individual budgets be created for entity levels within the organization such as by projects, departments, and funds, with individual reporting capability and the ability to roll budgets together for overall organization totals? Can the application create new budgets from previous history actuals with the logic of adjusting the new budget numbers by a percentage, flat amount, etc. If…
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  • Mastery: The Bedrock Story Part 2. Beginner’s Mind

    18 Jun 2013 | 7:12 am
    David Krueger MD One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.Leonardo da Vinci Remember recent experiences of excitement and childlike joy with new experiences, such as with nature, traveling to a new country, or engaging a new idea.   Mastery retains the spirit of our beginner’s mind, as we experience things in childhood with an openness, a first time freshness without preconceived ideas and developed notions influenced by others, when we were totally receptive to new information.   One of the ultimate impediments to creativity is when a successful process…

  • Mastery: The Bedrock Story Part 1. Seeds of Effectiveness

    12 Jun 2013 | 8:44 am
    One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. ~Leonardo da Vinci Our uniqueness is a seed planted at birth that seeks growth, transformation, and flowering to its full potential. This innate force, an intrinsic motivation to be effective, is the bedrock of our driving force as humans. I have observed videos of direct infant observation studies by Psychoanalysts Virginia Demos and later Joyce McDougall showing that infants as early as three months old have an intrinsic desire to be effective in their environment. When they do, they experience pleasure at mastery. This…

  • 18 CAVEATS ON HOW TO AVOID MONEY STORY OWNERSHIP AND CHANGE

    13 May 2013 | 7:15 am
    David Krueger MD If you are adamantly opposed to change, these caveats will embellish your position. If you are considering change, they might illuminate beliefs or positions that need addressing.   1. Focus on the system. Devote special attention to the things that seem frustrating, out of your control, and impossible to address: politics, corporations, and economics. Systems must remain in focus as broad categories in order for you to feel distanced and disaffected.   2.  Maintain a focus on theory.  Avoid detail, singular aspects, and application. Cling to your theories…

  • Professionals and Amateurs Part II

    2 May 2013 | 8:55 am
    David Krueger, M.D. I write only when inspiration strikes.  Fortunately it strikes every morning at 9:00 sharp.~Somerset Maugham Turning pro is an act of will, a mindset.  To have a plan and stick to it no matter what.  Success to the professional, who has mastered the technique of the art, is no mystery.  Success to the amateur, who believes art is a gift, is luck, circumstance, good breaks.   The professional knows that art is work, success is created, and seeks mastery. Practice is adopted as a lifestyle.  The amateur believes that art is inspiration, talent…

  • Professionals and Amateurs Part I.

    17 Apr 2013 | 1:26 pm
    David Krueger, M.D. It is not that I am so smart; it is that I stay with problems longer.- Albert Einstein      A professional and an amateur are states of mind.  By professional, I don't mean "the professions" such as doctors and lawyers.  The professional is an ideal, a contrast to the amateur.  The transformation from amateur to professional is a significant, life-changing passage.  Consider some differences. The professional works from love, passion, and dedication; failure is information to guide proceeding.  The amateur may be sidetracked by…
 
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  • Essential Resources For Proper Performance Measurement

    17 Jun 2013 | 1:14 am
    Performance measurement done well takes a bit of effort and a bit of time – more effort and time that we can fit into and around all the other things we’re doing… We have to resource performance measurement like we would any other change program that we’re serious about. It IS a change program – it’s not a software installation, or a brainstorming workshop, or a consultant assignment. It’s a change program that builds a core capability that every organisation must have (but so few do). Are you serious about making performance measurement really work? Here’s what you’ll…

  • Eat oats!

    13 Jun 2013 | 1:45 am
    Official inflation numbers are very low and do not correspond with the reality people face when they shop. The US Bureau of Labour Statistics reports inflation at 1.1%. This post shows year-over-year increases for basic staples such as wheat (74%) beef (18%) and coffee (27%).  I have been occasionally recording food prices to do my own inflation calculations, using prices at Grocery Gateway. The chart below shows the annualized change in basic food prices based on total changes from January 2008 to today. A one litre carton of 2% milk went from $1.18 on January 16, 2010 to the listed price…

  • How to Get More KPI Credibility

    3 Jun 2013 | 2:36 am
    It could be argued that an expert is really anyone who knows more about a subject than you do. And it’s likely that you could be the KPI expert in your organisation or business. Often my clients ask me to work with them because someone external to the organisation will have more credibility in performance measurement than they do. What exactly does externality have to do with credibility? Not much, really. I know some very clever and experienced performance measurement professional who are still employed in an organisaton or business. This subjective denial of internal credibility is a real…

  • Missed us at Knowledge13? Come join a Webinar.

    31 May 2013 | 12:04 am
    Join our new 30 minute ServiceNow webinar and experience how you can improve IT performance by using the integrated KPI Dashboards and Trend Analytics in your ServiceNow environment. Unlike other Cloud BI solutions and traditional BI solutions, Mirror42 for ServiceNow does not require a full replication of your data. Mirror42 does not store any details of your ITSM data in the cloud. The metric data that is stored is a string of numbers that without context and access to the ServiceNow database is meaningless. Join our new 30 minute ServiceNow webinar and find our why Mirror42 is the Safe…

  • How to Find Signals in Your Seasonal KPIs

    21 May 2013 | 2:57 am
    One of the trickiest KPIs to analyse, interpret and use are those that have a seasonal or cyclical pattern. Can you make these KPIs reveal their insights about how to improve performance, without getting drowned out in the seasonal variation? Yes you can! Most problem KPIs just need a bit of transformation before they can reveal their insights about changes due to factors other than the ‘change of the season’.KPIs with seasonal or cyclical patterns… It might be Retail Sales with an annual seasonal pattern driven by consumer behaviour. Or Staff Turnover with a quarterly cyclical pattern…
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  • Don't Just Sit There, Do Something: The Internet of Things and Services.

    William Rattner
    14 Jun 2013 | 6:20 am
    Have you noticed how The Internet of Things, all those myriad of devices that connect through the internet, is now becoming dependent on The Services of Things? It used to be enough to have a great product but now people are discovering what happens when you hook those things up to the internet. But a connection is not enough, there needs to be a service – a customer-centric system – that makes that product's value exponentially greater. [VIDEO: STEPHAN FERBER – Director of Communities & Partners Networks, Bosch Software Innovations. Besides doing a very good job of explaining the…

  • Android Tutorial: Optimizing for Phones and Tablets with Fragments

    Steven Byle
    6 Jun 2013 | 10:25 am
    When Tablets Were Still Stone A long, long, time ago, when the Android framework was being developed in the mid-2000’s, modern mobile phone screens were still small, and mostly flip, slider, and candy bar form factors. Almost all input came from hardware buttons, as touch screens were just starting to make it into consumer products. With that in mind, the Android engineers designed a user interface framework that would be flexible enough to fit almost any screen size and aspect ratio, and adaptable enough to support a plethora of hardware configurations. However, the scope of Android at…

  • A New Framework for Data Management?

    Bob Lambert
    5 Jun 2013 | 6:06 am
    I hold a strong prejudice that IT paradigms are useful for about 30 years. The PC was dominant from 1980 to 2010, “online” mainframe systems from 1970 to 2000, and so on. If that’s the case then time’s up for Bill Inmon’s data warehousing framework.

  • Bulk Creation of SharePoint Site Columns and Content Types with PowerShell: Part 3

    Kelly Rusk
    31 May 2013 | 12:12 pm
    This post is the third in a series detailing the creation of SharePoint Site Columns and Content Types via PowerShell. The series has three parts as follows: Part 1: Bulk Creating Site Columns with PowerShell Part 2: Bulk Creating Content Types with PowerShell Part 3: Bulk Adding Site Columns to Content Types with PowerShell

  • Google I/O 2013: Volley Image Cache Tutorial

    Raymond Robinson
    31 May 2013 | 10:42 am
    Google I/O 2013 has come to an end, and it has left us with great anticipation for the future of Android development. One of the more exciting things on display at I/O this year was a library called Volley. Volley is a library that handles the processing and caching of network requests, which saves developers from writing the same boilerplate code in virtually every application. Writing boilerplate code is never fun and is increases the chances of a mistake by the developer. It is with this in mind that Google has created Volley.If you have not seen the Google I/O presentation on Volley, I…
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  • Ensure the happiness of your family – Get a family insurance cover

    kane
    18 Jun 2013 | 8:04 am
    Although a lot of people have heard about Family Income Benefit Insurance, most are unaware about what it is exactly. To say in a nutshell, this is an insurance policy which pays your dependants an income in the event of your debt. This income will be given to your dependants till your policy term expires. Generally these policies are opted by young families which wants to protect its dependants against the death of either or both parents. In order to make this policy a little more comprehensive, critical illness cover can be added to it. This is done so that if you suffer from a critical…

  • How Real Estate Investing can Help You Create the Retirement of Your Dreams

    albert
    6 May 2013 | 12:20 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.   Real estate investing is not just a great way to build wealth right now — it’s also a great way to build the retirement of your dreams. Whether you are retiring in a few years or in 30 years from now, investing in real estate can help you to meet your goals for retirement. You can adjust your strategy to meet your goals, and the sky is the limit for what you can achieve. Here are just a few ways that real…

  • 5 Tips to a Top-Notch Credit Score Rating

    albert
    15 Apr 2013 | 11:57 am
    Author: Ethel Wilson 5 Tips to a Top-Notch Credit Score Rating   Our credit score rating is affected by every financial decision we make. Sometimes we get ourselves in over our heads, racking up so much debt that we can’t afford to keep up consistent payments on our principal and accompanying interest. Every time we miss or are late with a payment, on any of our bills, our credit score suffers. Those bills include those from utility companies, service providers, doctors, and department stores to name a few. When we don’t pay a bill, that information is sent to the organizations that…

  • Do you live in your principal residence or rent it?

    albert
    3 Apr 2013 | 11:50 am
    Author: Financial Awakening Blog Capital Gain Tax 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. If you ever come across a person who rent out his principal residence and live in a rental basement apartment himself, don’t be surprised. He is actually smarter than you think. Most people live in their only and biggest investment they have, their principal residence. The benefit is that there is no capital gain tax when you resale your home. Of course, most people would also add that it feels more like…

  • Binary Trade Options- the Different Types for you to Choose

    kane
    26 Mar 2013 | 12:33 pm
    The numerous benefits and high pay outs of binary trade options have made this trade a very popular choice and it has surged ahead of many other career choices in a very short span of time. If you are investing in Binary Options, it may be tough to figure out what the different types of such options are open to you for your investment level and which ones would be the right choice for you. As complicated as this may sound, it is actually pretty easy to figure out which binary trade option would be the best for you. The different types of binary trade options are explained below to make your…
 
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  • Draw nicer Classification and Regression Trees with the rpart.plot package

    Joseph Rickert
    19 Jun 2013 | 4:49 pm
    by Joseph Rickert The basic way to plot a classification or regression tree built with R’s rpart() function is just to call plot. However, in general, the results just aren’t pretty. As it turns out, for some time now there has been a better way to plot rpart() trees: the prp() function in Stephen Milborrow’s rpart.plot package. This function is a veritable “Swiss Army Knife” for plotting trees and the documentation for the package is quite good: in addition to the package pdf, Stephen maintains a very nice and easy-to-read user manual on his webpage. However, it wasn’t until I…

  • Three questions about data science

    David Smith
    18 Jun 2013 | 4:36 pm
    During the recent Kalido webinar on data science, I was asked a number of questions about data science, which have since been published as a Kalido Expert View. Here's my take on the first question: Q: In your opinion, what is a data scientist? I find it most useful to explain what a data scientist is in the context of data scientist vs. statistician. I was trained as a statistician and used to introduce myself as one, but the image most people got was that I counted runs in baseball or cricket. That’s obviously not what a data scientist does. Data science is more like the next…

  • Computerworld's Beginners Guide to R

    David Smith
    17 Jun 2013 | 5:05 pm
    Sharon Machlis is not only the online managing editor at Computerworld, she's also a budding data scientist who recently started learning the R language. To the benefit of all other new R users, she's shared her learnings in an excellent 6-part beginners guide to R, published by Computerworld. It's jam-packed with useful information for anyone getting started with R, interspersed with handy links to source materials if you want to go in-depth. She explains the goals of the guide as follows:  Our aim here isn't R mastery, but giving you a path to start using R for basic…

  • Because it's Friday: Women in Movies and the Bechdel Test

    David Smith
    14 Jun 2013 | 4:15 pm
    A movie is said to satisfy the Bechdel Test if it satisfies the following three criteria: The movie has at least two named female characters ... who have a conversation with each other ... about something other than a man Sounds pretty simple, right? For example, the movie Aliens passes the test because Ripley and Newt talk to each other about the "monsters". As it happens, about half of all movies fail the test, including (surprisingly) some movies with female lead characters. In 2012, only four of the top 10 grossing movies passed the test (via Andrew Sullivan): I confess to being…

  • A list of R packages, by popularity

    David Smith
    14 Jun 2013 | 9:34 am
    R package developer (and R-bloggers editor) Tal Galili just published the answers to a question many R users have asked: which are the most popular R packages? He wrote some R code to rank the top 100 packages by number of downloads. Here's the top 10: The source data are the download logs from the RStudio CRAN mirror, whose logs RStudio team has helpfully made available in anonymized form for analysis. The Downloads column is the number of downloads of each package from January-May 2013, from a single CRAN mirror: it does not include downloads from the primary CRAN mirror or any of the…
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  • Engaging Through Session Metrics – Whiteboard Wednesday

    Miles Branman
    19 Jun 2013 | 6:32 am
    Localytics Digital Marketing Specialist, Miles Branman, defines app engagement through valuable session metrics, to craft mobile marketing strategies. Engaging Through Session Metrics - Whiteboard Wednesday   Transcript Hello and welcome to another Whiteboard Wednesday. My name is Miles Branman, Digital Marketing Specialist here at Localytics. Today I’m going to be talking to you about two key metrics, the first being session length and the other, session interval. Both of these metrics are focused around user engagement. Using these metrics as a mobile marketer or app developer…

  • How Marketers Can Own App Analytics – Whiteboard Wednesday

    Miles Branman
    12 Jun 2013 | 7:46 am
    Localytics Senior Solutions Consultant, Richard Sgro, discusses the tactics and benefits available to mobile marketers who employ the right strategy, based on app analytics data. How Marketers Can Own App Analytics - Whiteboard Wednesday   Transcript  Hello, everyone. My name is Richard Sgro. I’m a Senior Solutions Consultant, here at Localytics. Welcome to Whiteboard Wednesday. Today, we’re going to be talking about how the marketer can own app analytics, and we’re going to present three strategies to help you really drive value from them. Let Your Business Questions Guide The…

  • Successful Funnel Management Practices – Whiteboard Wednesday

    Miles Branman
    5 Jun 2013 | 7:10 am
    Localytics Senior Solutions Consultant, Tim Patten, takes a moment to dive into the world of funnel management. How are your users converting, and where are they getting stuck? Find the answers through proper funnel management.   Transcript Hello, I’m Tim Patten, Senior Solutions Consultant here at Localytics and thank you for joining us for this Whiteboard Wednesday. Today we are going to be talking about funnels. Funnels are a great tool to help you identify the success or failure of a certain path through your application. They also allow you to identify potential roadblocks that…

  • Optimizing the Mobile Messaging Options

    Simone Ellis
    4 Jun 2013 | 5:00 am
    The increase in smart phone usage is important for brands to keep in mind when considering how to market to their customers. Not only are the numbers of smart phone users increasing, but behavior is changing and users are becoming more and more attached to their smartphones. According to Qualcomm, 29% of Americans say their phone is the first and last thing they look at every day. With users constantly using and interacting with their smartphones, it’s important for your brand to be reaching out to your users through the mobile platform by using a mobile messaging technique. However,…

  • Localytics Releases BlackBerry 10 Analytics SDK

    Randy Dailey
    3 Jun 2013 | 10:07 am
    Localytics is pleased to announce official support for BlackBerry 10! Starting today, BlackBerry developers can begin instrumenting their WebWorks and Cascades apps with our powerful new analytics solutions for HTML5 and Cascades. WebWorks WebWorks is BlackBerry’s platform for allowing web and mobile web developers to create, test and package their web apps. Through our existing HTML5 analytics SDK, Localytics has long supported similar web and hybrid apps developed for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and previous versions of BlackBerry OS. Today, we’re excited to add official support for…
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  • A 5-Step Guide to Developing a Marketing Intelligence Engine

    Jared Conley
    7 Jun 2013 | 11:03 am
    With all of your business intelligence data sitting at your fingertips, the biggest challenge for marketers is figuring out how to consume the data and translate it into better decisions. I want to talk briefly about five very specific steps to developing a business intelligence engine designed to serve marketers: 1. Know Why You Need Data Knowing why you need data is the most basic—and most often skipped—step in building a marketing intelligence engine. Once you have a specific goal in mind (e.g., how does web traffic correlate with social media, or how does billboard marketing impact…

  • The Co-pilot Perspective

    Chad Heinrich
    23 May 2013 | 3:18 pm
    A number of years ago I had a quite a memorable experience.  On a visit to see one of my best friends from Seattle, his roommate, a newly certified amateur pilot, invited us to take an impromptu aerial tour of the city and surrounding area. Upon accepting the invitation, I naively envisioned boarding an aircraft like the personal corporate jets I saw in the movies. I’d never been on a private aircraft before, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect. Of course as we arrived at the community airport hanger, we parked next to a four-seat, single-propeller trainer plane likely born in the…

  • Why Telling Stories Is Good Business Practice

    Meaghan Cunningham
    21 May 2013 | 9:25 am
    Storytelling is the conveying of events—at least, that’s what Wikipedia says. I would amend it to say that storytelling is the conveying of events that bring about a specific change. If there’s nothing dynamic, then there’s no story. It’s just a statement. Business leaders have enough statements. They get financial statements, sales stats, marketing results, and so on. But business leaders don’t often get the full story—what happened, why it happened, and how it might happen again. Until business leaders know the reasons why, they can’t make accurate decisions to produce a…

  • Infographic: The Physical Size of Big Data

    Steve Wellen
    14 May 2013 | 11:59 am
    I can still remember the first time I saw a 1 GB flash drive—it blew my mind. This device, the size of my thumb, could hold the information of 711 3.5-inch floppy disks. Manufacturers had become bona fide magicians, capable of shrinking data right before my eyes. But it’s a darn good thing that data is occupying less space these days, since we’re seeing it increase astronomically in volume. The most critical challenge we face is transforming all this “big” data into “this-actually-makes-my-business-better” data. And when you’re dealing with enough…

  • Employee Engagement Delivers Positive Returns

    Julie Kehoe
    2 May 2013 | 9:38 am
    Employee engagement impacts the entire organization. When it’s up, so is productivity. When it’s down, you’ve got a serious problem on your hands. Organizing a few parties or handing out spot bonuses isn’t the fix. You need to examine your culture from the inside out. Not to give away the punchline, but employee engagement matters more than you may think: organizations with high employee engagement experience a total shareholder return 19% better than average. By contrast, low-engagement organizations suffer a shareholder return 44% below average. Ouch. For the rest of…
 
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  • A 5-Step Guide to Developing a Marketing Intelligence Engine

    Jared Conley
    7 Jun 2013 | 11:03 am
    With all of your business intelligence data sitting at your fingertips, the biggest challenge for marketers is figuring out how to consume the data and translate it into better decisions. I want to talk briefly about five very specific steps to developing a business intelligence engine designed to serve marketers: 1. Know Why You Need Data Knowing why you need data is the most basic—and most often skipped—step in building a marketing intelligence engine. Once you have a specific goal in mind (e.g., how does web traffic correlate with social media, or how does billboard marketing impact…

  • The Co-pilot Perspective

    Chad Heinrich
    23 May 2013 | 3:18 pm
    A number of years ago I had a quite a memorable experience.  On a visit to see one of my best friends from Seattle, his roommate, a newly certified amateur pilot, invited us to take an impromptu aerial tour of the city and surrounding area. Upon accepting the invitation, I naively envisioned boarding an aircraft like the personal corporate jets I saw in the movies. I’d never been on a private aircraft before, so I really wasn’t sure what to expect. Of course as we arrived at the community airport hanger, we parked next to a four-seat, single-propeller trainer plane likely born in the…

  • Why Telling Stories Is Good Business Practice

    Meaghan Cunningham
    21 May 2013 | 9:25 am
    Storytelling is the conveying of events—at least, that’s what Wikipedia says. I would amend it to say that storytelling is the conveying of events that bring about a specific change. If there’s nothing dynamic, then there’s no story. It’s just a statement. Business leaders have enough statements. They get financial statements, sales stats, marketing results, and so on. But business leaders don’t often get the full story—what happened, why it happened, and how it might happen again. Until business leaders know the reasons why, they can’t make accurate decisions to produce a…

  • Infographic: The Physical Size of Big Data

    Steve Wellen
    14 May 2013 | 11:59 am
    I can still remember the first time I saw a 1 GB flash drive—it blew my mind. This device, the size of my thumb, could hold the information of 711 3.5-inch floppy disks. Manufacturers had become bona fide magicians, capable of shrinking data right before my eyes. But it’s a darn good thing that data is occupying less space these days, since we’re seeing it increase astronomically in volume. The most critical challenge we face is transforming all this “big” data into “this-actually-makes-my-business-better” data. And when you’re dealing with enough…

  • Employee Engagement Delivers Positive Returns

    Julie Kehoe
    2 May 2013 | 9:38 am
    Employee engagement impacts the entire organization. When it’s up, so is productivity. When it’s down, you’ve got a serious problem on your hands. Organizing a few parties or handing out spot bonuses isn’t the fix. You need to examine your culture from the inside out. Not to give away the punchline, but employee engagement matters more than you may think: organizations with high employee engagement experience a total shareholder return 19% better than average. By contrast, low-engagement organizations suffer a shareholder return 44% below average. Ouch. For the rest of…
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  • A wake-up call for data protection

    19 Jun 2013 | 6:06 am
    Data protection is an international issue, but more and more it’s coming on to procurement’s radar. What kind of reaction should the NSA revelations provoke? The fall out from the revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) Prism surveillance programme has yet to translate into direct consequences for the world of procurement – but it should provoke some serious thought. To say that the impact is already being felt far and wide would be an understatement. On Monday Yahoo joined the list of global companies - which already included Apple, Facebook and…

  • What will the price of everything be in 2014? We might have the answer

    18 Jun 2013 | 1:15 am
    Procurement Leaders is currently collecting views from category managers and buyers in prices for indirect categories. Following from our Category Planning Guide 2013, that we published last year, we are trying to repeat the next round of forecasting for 2014. Procurement Leaders is currently collecting views from category managers and buyers in prices for indirect categories. Following from our Category Planning Guide 2013, that we published last year, we are trying to repeat the next round of forecasting for 2014. Last year, we forecasted the global prices of 45 categories, ranging from…

  • Sound bites can offer sound advice

    17 Jun 2013 | 3:13 am
    For awhile, I’ve thought that procurement needs a few sound bites that capture the imperatives and aspirations of the function. Last week, the Procurement Leaders Next Decade event in New York City provided several possibilities.  "Sound bites." That’s what people often call those short phrases used by advertising copywriters, politicians, journalists and others to capture the essence of a larger thought. Often they’re banal, or misleading. Just as often, they can be inspiring and motivate people to take action. President Kennedy’s call to "ask not what your…

  • Beyond Procurement 15: Dismantling the function

    14 Jun 2013 | 3:46 am
    Now, for my final blog in this series, we ask a bold and straightforward question: what if the function cannot generate significant additional performance? Thought Leaders is a series of regular posts from experts from across industries and regions, looking at the issues procurement faces today. In this, the latest in the Beyond Procurement Series by Novartis Pharma’s Sammy Rashed, looks at the potential final stages of the procurement journey. Throughout this series I have tried to provoke a new thinking about how the Procurement function ponders its future role and…

  • Next Decade New York: Let's change the mindset

    12 Jun 2013 | 6:00 am
    New York starts early and means business – that was the first of many lessons from Procurement Leaders’ Next Decade Series.  New York starts early and means business – that was the first of many lessons from Procurement Leaders’ Next Decade Series.  We’d already seen across the Next Decade events of the series so far, different views from Amsterdam and San Francisco. New York, unsurprisingly, was its own world of ideas and views. What becomes apparent though is that addressing the challenges of the next two, five, ten years means moving beyond familiar…
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  • The Table Viewer

    Henric Cronström
    18 Jun 2013 | 7:22 am
    The table viewer is a gem. I use it for many things: to get an overview; to debug what I have done in the script; to check that all tables are linked; to check that I don’t have any unwanted synthetic keys; to preview data. I can hardly remember

  • Making QlikView Part of the Story: Embedding Objects into Web Pages

    Brian Munz
    14 Jun 2013 | 8:38 am
    More and more, blog posts, news articles, and various other online media are incorporating data visualization.  A well placed chart or graph can drive home the point of the story being told.  While print has been doing this for a long time,

  • Relative Calendar Fields

    Henric Cronström
    10 Jun 2013 | 8:47 am
    A common question in the QlikCommunity forum is how to show only the last N months. The suggested answers are most of the time relatively complex set analysis expressions including dollar expansions with aggregation functions, e.g.

  • Usability Recommendations

    Michael Anthony
    7 Jun 2013 | 12:28 pm
    Usability engineers & researchers are crucial parts of User Experience. While not as "glamorous" as designers they bring evidence to the world of design. Through observation of heuristic tests they offer empirical evidence that a design is working,

  • What is Insight? Is it Visual?

    James Richardson
    6 Jun 2013 | 2:11 am
    Shall we play a game?What word can connect all three of these words?PineCrabSauceHere's a picture to give you time to think - be warned though, looking at the picture may stop you finding the answer (more on this below). Got it? That’s right; ‘apple’ can go with them all: pinepple; crab apple; apple sauce.There are two ways of coming to the answer:Analytic logic: did you run through a series of possible matching words until you found the right association? For example, saying: “Does ‘cake’ work? No. Does ‘cone’ work? No. Does…
 
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  • GE Healthcare Devoting $2 Billion to Analytics Development

    nick kolakowski
    14 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am
    GE Healthcare Devoting $2 Billion to Analytics Development (via slashdot) GE Healthcare plans on pouring $2 billion into analytics-software development over the next five years. “We’re shifting to using one common software platform across all GE Healthcare current and future products and services,” Evren Eryurek, GE Healthcare Software Chief Technology Officer, wrote… The post GE Healthcare Devoting $2 Billion to Analytics Development appeared first on Dice News.

  • 5 Steps to Becoming a Business Analyst

    Steven Gara
    13 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am
    Laura Brandenburg, owner of the website www.bridging-the-gap.com, is known for offering highly valuable information on becoming a business analyst. I asked her to provide this article on five steps to becoming a BA, which she describes as a journey in getting to know yourself and what your interests are. At the end, I add some of the big potential rewards that can come from your working in the field. Note that these steps apply to any experience level and at any stage in your career. Here’s Laura: Step 1: Learn about Business Analysis and Confirm Your Career Choice As it would be with any…

  • BABOK 2.0: The Business Analysis Bible

    Steven Gara
    3 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am
    The Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK 2.0) is literally the guide to the profession of business analysis. Every business analyst finds it useful, and none should be without it. The guide literally sets the standard for the practice of BA, and its value lies in the fact that it’s written exclusively for practitioners. BABOK 2.0 (work is underway on version 3.0) offers six broad areas of business analysis. Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring: This area explains how to effectively plan your project. Some of the items to consider are scope and which stakeholders, tools, tasks…

  • Key Transferable Skills for Business Analysts

    Steven Gara
    24 May 2013 | 7:00 am
    There’s always debate about which skills in business analysis are the most important and most transferable. The answers always seem to come back to these: Communications Skills Interpersonal Skills Technical Skills Research and Analytical Skills Organizational Skills If you join the International Institute of Business Analysis, you’ll have access to A Guide to the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (the BABOK Guide) and the underlying business analysis competencies it lists. Here’s more detail on the transferable skills, which should help if you’re considering moving…

  • Tech Innovation at the Heart of Retail

    Susan Hall
    21 May 2013 | 7:00 am
    Technology is increasingly the differentiator among brands in retail, according to research firm Gartner, which pointed in a recent report to four forces — cloud, mobile, social and information — with the power to “either recreate businesses or level them.” “If you’re not familiar with it, you probably don’t realize how technologically advanced retail is,” says Jerry Sheldon, retail analyst with IHL Consulting Group. Indeed, the National Retail Federation has launched a “This is Retail” campaign to highlight and raise awareness of career opportunities. Overall, the…
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  • Do you agree with Ashton Kutcher’s Views on Twitter?

    Hayden Richards
    19 Jun 2013 | 6:00 am
    So Ashton Kutcher, thinks Facebook Is the New Religion. In a CNBC interview, Ashton Kutcher said that Facebook is definitely the place to be for companies that are looking to promote businesses online. While this may make perfect sense to most companies, the source of knowledge raised a few eyebrows. Industry experts took exception to the second part of his comment which criticized Twitter for being too crowded and thus not being the best place for companies that are looking to promote themselves online. According to CNBC: "As Twitter has become more popular, traditional media has begun…

  • IBM’s expanding Cloud portfolio to transform front office

    Hayden Richards
    18 Jun 2013 | 11:00 pm
    We all know IBM is a powerhouse in the tech sector, but that reputation has not historically lend itself to the Cloud. But isnt IBM already innovating in this area you might say? Yes is the answer.  However Cloud Computing, is still a small fraction of-the organization's $106 million in yearly earnings. Nevertheless, IBM has invested well over $4 billion getting cloud computing based solutions in the previous couple of years, and recently purchased an enormous public cloud. The business is definitely gearing up for-a much larger drive in cloud-delivered applications and its solutions are…

  • Innotribe announces five finalists of #Startup Challenge New York

    Hayden Richards
    18 Jun 2013 | 6:00 am
    Swift's Innotribe Startup Challenge 2013 is a platform for emerging startup companies and its accompanying innovations that are poised to transform the industry. Challengers showcase their concepts and items which could empower banking institutions to advance the services they provide to market and distinguish themselves in today's increasingly competitive landscape. One key benefit of the Innotribe Startup Challenge 2013 for innovators and entrepreneurs is that they're able to collaborate with decision makers and early stage investors. Sticking with its theme initiative to empower…

  • Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg and Other Leaders to Discuss Tech at Reuters Global Technology Summit

    Hayden Richards
    17 Jun 2013 | 10:18 pm
    Sheryl Sandberg, Marissa Mayer, John Donahoe and Elon Musk are among the world's leading names in technology and media. Joining other leaders, from polished corporate chieftains to scrappy Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, they will all visit Reuters bureaus in San Francisco and Singapore, from June 17-20 to discuss the outlook for the technology and media sector in a series of exclusives interviews. The stories and videos from the closed on-the-record sessions at the Reuters Global Technology Summit will be posted online at www.reuters.com/summit/Tech13.  There are already some good…

  • Beyond Cloud Series Video Interview with David Terrar from D2C

    Daniel Steeves
    17 Jun 2013 | 7:00 am
    IntelligentHQ.com in partnership with Groupe INSEEC London presents: a Beyond Cloud Interview with David Terrar CEO of D2C by Daniel Steeves. The Beyond Cloud Series of video discovery discussions examines the viewpoints of some of the top minds in the UK cloud computing space as they share their views on the trends, issues and realities of the industry – and the industries which it impacts. [xyz-ihs snippet="CLOUDIN"] Cloud Computing, from web based applications to on demand infrastructure, has already moved from being the next big trend to a mainstream technology choice. It all depends on…
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