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  • Census Bureau’s Balancing Act

    5 Feb 2010 | 6:23 pm
    My print column this week examines a quirk in U.S. Census Bureau data that may have led to research errors. A National Bureau of Economic Research working paper this week demonstrated that so-called microdata — a subset of all Census responses, released to researchers who want to dig deeper into demographic trends — for several surveys contained flaws. “This whole issue arose from our attempts to preserve privacy,” said Robert M. Groves, director of the Census Bureau. The agency takes several steps to scrub microdata of any information that might reveal the identity of…

  • How Hollywood Box-Office Records Are Made

    29 Jan 2010 | 6:23 pm
    My print column this week examines the nature of box-office records in light of the run of “Avatar” to the top of world-wide charts, and near the top of the list for the U.S. and Canada. Such records are based on gross at the box office, unadjusted for inflation, which helps newer films top older ones. “The focus of Hollywood is on the money,” said Brandon Gray, president of Box Office Mojo, a box-office tracking company. Other media use different standards of excellence. “In television it’s about eyeballs,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of the…

  • How the CDC Counts H1N1 Cases

    22 Jan 2010 | 7:06 pm
    My print column this week examines how much we know — and don’t — about the number of Americans who have contracted H1N1 influenza, and how many have died from it. A White House report last summer outlined a scenario in which 30,000 to 90,000 Americans might die by the end of this winter. Yet last week, with flu activity slowing, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that roughly 55 million people had become sick with the flu, and about 11,000 had died. The CDC estimates are based on studies of how many people who are sick with the flu seek medical…

  • Winter Wager Almost Yields Windfall

    12 Jan 2010 | 7:08 pm
    My print column this week examines the plight of a British bettor, Cliff Bryant, who thought he’d won millions of dollars, only to learn he was getting about $50. He placed combination bets on snowfall at Christmas, which would pay off if each location where he predicted it would snow indeed got a dusting. But the bookmaker, Ladbrokes, says the bets were taken in error and violated the firm’s terms and conditions. Cliff Bryant Rudimentary betting slips recorded two snow bets that stood to win millions of dollars. The story highlights the importance, when calculating the…

  • Tiger Woods and Market-Moving Events

    6 Jan 2010 | 6:21 pm
    My print column this week examines the study that gave rise to reports of a dent in shareholder wealth to the tune of $12 billion, caused by the Tiger Woods infidelity scandal and the toll it took on his sponsors’ share prices. The research fit into the category of event studies, which examine the impact of a news event on stock value. A. Craig MacKinlay, an event-study researcher and a professor of finance at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, said the Woods study used pretty standard methodology, but it faced some tough challenges. News of Woods’s infidelity…
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  • SAP BusinessObjects Social Intelligence Prototype V2 Launches

    Timo Elliott
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:28 am
    The SAP BusinessObjects Social Network Analyzer came out last year, combining business intelligence with relationship data to create a “social intelligence” solution. It’s a prototype from the SAP BusinessObjects Innovation Center. It can combine information from HR systems, CRM systems, project databases, committee attendee lists, distribution lists, and any other other system that contains relationships between people. The new version will be available to download soon. In the meantime, you can try it online at http://sna-demo.demand.com. It features more functionality, an updated…

  • Some Examples of How to Use 12sprints, The New SAP Collaborative Decision-Making Application

    Timo Elliott
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:45 am
    SAP’s decision-focused collaboration project, 12sprints, is now in “open beta”, so that anybody can sign up. Here’s the blurb from the web site explaining what it is: Bring order to chaos and transform teamwork into results quickly. Collaborative decision-making brings together: People - Get everyone on the same page Information - Share documents and data all in plain view Methods - Provide structure with business tools for brainstorming, strategizing, and decision-making And it’s built for speed - use for free and be up and running in minutes!  Learn more This post gives…

  • Clear Intelligence Future: Simple, Seamless, Social, and Strategic

    Timo Elliott
    1 Feb 2010 | 1:15 pm
    Please find below my presentation from today’s Gartner BI Summit EMEA in London. If you were there, thanks for attending, and I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did! You can download a pdf version here and the full PowerPoint file, including the Xcelsius dashboards here. Was this interesting? Share with others on Twitter with automatic URL shortening! 

  • Top BI Questions Blog Posts of 2009

    Timo Elliott
    30 Dec 2009 | 5:40 am
    Januarysaw Obama’s inauguration, and a reflection on Bush’s analytic legacy, a discussion on whether “gut feelings” have any basis in science, a dashboard showing the best companies to work for in the US, and a quick demonstration that Malcom Gladwell was right.       February’s posts discussed the power of having the right data, and that dashboards have been around for a long, long time, but if they have poor data it’s like putting lipstick on a pig, and that it would be a crime not to include analytics in applications — but also that we’re all really bad…

  • Season’s Greetings with Xcelsius!

    Timo Elliott
    18 Dec 2009 | 9:08 am
    Here is a season’s greetings dashboard that shows off some of the latest features of Xcelsius 2008 SP3. Tweet the color you’d like to see in the garland. The dashboard updates every 30 seconds. How long Twitter search takes to recognize the tweet can be pretty variable – but most of the time, it’s less than a minute. How it works: I set up an Excel XML Connection that grabs a feed from Twitter using the search term “#twitterlights”. The top three (most recent) tweets are parsed to identify the color, using a vlookup table of the first three characters (if no color is found, it…
 
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  • 2010 Visual Business Intelligence Workshop Schedule

    Bryan Pierce
    22 Jan 2010 | 8:54 am
    In 2010, Stephen will teach a total of seven of his Visual Business Intelligence Workshops on four continents. Here is Stephen’s public workshop schedule for 2010: Sydney, Australia: February 9-11  (sold out) and February 15-17 São Paulo, Brazil: March 30-April 1 (registration will open soon) Austin, Texas: April 20-22 Rome, Italy: April 28-30 Boston, Massachusetts: June 8-10 London, United Kingdom: June 22-24 San Francisco, California: September 28-30 In addition to these seven public workshops, there is also the possibility that Stephen will teach one in New Zealand near the end of…

  • Assessing the Effectiveness of a New Dashboard’s Design

    Stephen Few
    20 Jan 2010 | 4:25 pm
    Even a brilliantly designed dashboard can be met with disapproval by those who will use it if we’re not careful to introduce it in a way that encourages them to focus on what matters. Designs that are effective for monitoring information are quite different from the designs that are usually featured by software vendors and thus emulated by those who use their products. As a result, what people expect of a dashboard’s design is often quite different from what they actually need. I’ve been asked on several occasions to provide guidelines for dashboard designers to use when…

  • Sensemaking in a World of Shadows

    Stephen Few
    14 Jan 2010 | 3:47 pm
    Despite the importance of analytical methods, at times data sensemaking leads to better decisions when we go with our guts. During the last few years enough books to fill a small library have been written about the importance of reflective, analytical thinking, alerting us to errors of less evolved thinking that we so easily slip into. I welcomed these books, read several, and even reviewed a few, but their popularity threatens to tip the balance too far in favor of analytical thinking. A yin and yang balance should exist between the reflective, rational techniques of analysis and the…

  • Questions to Ask About Vendors When Evaluating Their Products

    Stephen Few
    7 Jan 2010 | 9:40 am
    Good products are usually developed by good companies. It would be difficult for a bad company—one that is poorly run—to develop a good product. When we evaluate products, in addition to looking at the products themselves, we can learn useful facts that might not be obvious by asking a few questions about the companies that produce them. Here are a few questions you might want to ask about a software vendor when evaluating one of its products. Does the vendor have deep expertise in the domains that its products support? Does it exhibit this expertise, not only in its products, but in its…

  • Designing Effective Industrial Control System Displays

    Stephen Few
    16 Dec 2009 | 5:28 pm
    The High Performance HMI Handbook A Comprehensive Guide to Designing, Implementing and Maintaining Effective HMIs for Industrial Plant Operations Bill Hollifield, Dana Oliver, Ian Nimmo, and Eddie Habibi, PAS, 2008 Dashboard displays come in many types, depending on the nature of the information that’s being monitored. While it’s true that all monitoring displays share many best design practices in common, each situation requires specialized designs as well. For example, an airplane cockpit display should look and function quite a bit differently than a business sales dashboard. A…
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  • Let's Tweet About Something Important!

    Tom Davenport
    5 Feb 2010 | 12:15 pm
    Almost 50 years ago, FCC Commissioner Newton Minow suggested that the then-new medium of television was becoming a "vast wasteland." One could argue that the same fate is befalling social media. It's been a few months since I last fulminated on this issue. So it's time for another curmudgeonly post. A couple of recent studies suggest that the content of social media is trivial at best. An analysis of over 100 million tweets thus far in 2010 conducted by Sysomos found one bit of good news and lots of bad (from my perspective, anyway). The good news is that Barack Obama was the most common…

  • How to "Connect the Dots" in Your Business

    Tom Davenport
    26 Jan 2010 | 1:25 pm
    In my last post I wrote about why intelligence agencies were apparently unable to "connect the dots" on the Nigerian underwear bomber. The post elicited a variety of comments, some from distinguished experts (Don Peppers in customer data, Sam Felton in strategic and competitive intelligence, Sanjay Poonen in enterprise integration, and Jeff Jonas in information security). Some felt that "connecting the dots" should have been an easy problem, but most agreed with me that it's difficult. In this post, I'll describe what needs to happen if you want to connect disparate pieces of information…

  • The Underwear Bomber: Why They Didn't "Connect the Dots"

    Tom Davenport
    8 Jan 2010 | 1:03 pm
    Everybody, including President Obama, is criticizing the U.S. intelligence agencies for not keeping accused underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab off the Christmas Day flight from Amsterdam to Detroit. Why didn't they "connect the dots" or "put the pieces together"? This is the same problem the intelligence agencies encountered with 9/11 — lots of clues that were not integrated in time. But is this really a fair criticism? Just how easy is it to connect the dots? Granted, there were numerous indications of Abdulmutallab's evil intent. But it would have been difficult to put them…

  • How You Lowered Your Information Standards

    Tom Davenport
    23 Dec 2009 | 10:35 am
    In my last blog, I argued that people don't care enough about their information environments to prevent overload. This week I am focusing on a related behavioral change that has important implications for companies that produce information products and services: As information grows in quantity, consumers of it are willing to accept lower quality. I call this willingness satisficing — being satisfied with sacrificing quality. I am supported in this contention by one of The New York Times's "The Year in Ideas" items that appeared last Sunday. Called "Good Enough Is the New Great," it…

  • Why We Don't Care About Information Overload

    Tom Davenport
    8 Dec 2009 | 1:33 pm
    I gave a presentation this week on decision-making, and someone in the audience asked me if I thought information overload was an impediment to effective decision-making. "Information overload...yes, I remember that concept. But no one cares about it anymore," I replied. In fact, nobody ever did. But why not? We've been reading articles in the press about information overload being the bane of productivity for almost twenty years. (Here's a link to a fairly recent article in Harvard Business Review on the topic called "Death by Information Overload" and a related blog.) And there is no doubt…
 
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  • Tools and those who enable their misuse

    Ted Cuzzillo
    1 Feb 2010 | 7:47 pm
    To get a data architect I know worked up, just ask him about how customers end up buying the wrong tools. How about sales people who push federation tools on those who actually need data warehouses? “It all sounds extremely sexy,” says my source, who works for a major business intelligence vendor and whom I can’t identify. “You have a lot of people who exaggerate their ability to combine data to provide business solutions. … They don’t prototype, they don’t profile, they don’t actually think about the problem or do testing or even send some high…

  • Marco looks to BI for help

    Ted Cuzzillo
    29 Jan 2010 | 4:34 pm
    My friend Marco’s spam-bait operation was down last year, and he’s been asking me what business intelligence can do for him. He had just read one of TDWI’s promo emails last night when he called me again. “I like Vegas. Should I go?” he asked from somewhere that sounded far away. I said it all depended on what he wanted to learn. Is making sense of his data important? If yes, go. But there seemed to be more to his question. He’s gone through one shady business after another since the early ’60s, when as a teenager he sold drugs on the street. Now he…

  • Bring in the shrinks for decision analysis

    Ted Cuzzillo
    19 Jan 2010 | 6:59 pm
    Now comes the hard part in business intelligence: figuring out how the humans can make better use of all our data and tools for decision making, writes Wayne Eckerson, director of TDWI Research. Let’s bring in the shrinks. When Wayne points to a trend, it’s news even if others might have already foreseen it. He’s one of the industry’s most thoughtful observers, and one of the most deliberate. In Tuesday morning’s blog post, he suggests improving BI by enlisting those who study how people make decisions. To take BI to the next level, we need better insights into…

  • “Streetlights and Shadows”

    Ted Cuzzillo
    15 Jan 2010 | 10:36 am
    Some of the books Stephen Few reviews may at first glance to have little to do with data analysis. On second glance, though, they have everything to do with it. He often goes into the essence of thinking, insight, and decision making — core knowledge for BI practitioners. See his latest, posted yesterday afternoon, on Gary Klein’s Streetlights and Shadows.

  • Mapping the many faces of “retention”

    Ted Cuzzillo
    15 Jan 2010 | 9:30 am
    Everybody knows what “retention” means until they have to design a metric. Ken Rudin, once of LucidEra and now general manager of analytics at the games site Zynga, thought that he and his team could “put something together” quickly — but it actually took “four solid weeks of discussion and debate.” About 50 million people play Zynga games every day. It’s the leading online social gaming platform, according to Ken, and it’s grown from zero in 2007 to revenues of “a few” hundred million dollars annual revenue. Every day, the…
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  • Message from Tom Casey, General Manager, Microsoft Business Intelligence

    cwpeng
    2 Feb 2010 | 6:15 pm
    We are pleased to be acknowledged by Gartner as a Leader in both the Business Intelligence Platforms Magic Quadrant and the Data Warehouse Database Management Systems Magic Quadrant for the third year in a row.   We are happy to see this type of validation in our approach and strength of our technologies from the analyst community. Moreover, we are pleased that the high level of satisfaction within our existing Microsoft Business Intelligence customer community is called out as influential. Our rankings on these two reports reflect, in part, the quality and quantity of positive…

  • Win a trip to the 2010 Microsoft BI Conference in New Orleans!!!

    cwpeng
    26 Jan 2010 | 2:36 pm
    Hi Everyone! Exciting news on the PowerPivot front - Friday we launched the Excelerators Quiz and the Alpha Geek Challenge. Go now to the sites below and take the quiz to see if you’re anywhere near as good as Donald Farmer!  Remember to post your results on Facebook and Twitter or even challenge a friend!  Also spread the word to all your Alpha Geek pals to participate in our challenges for some great prizes!  We’ve been working hard to get these sites ready, and we want to hit the ground running. Go check it out for yourself, and have fun!  Please send this to your…

  • New BI features in Excel 2010

    nismith
    26 Jan 2010 | 1:35 pm
      The Office 2010 launch is just around the corner and Excel 2010 is coming with a ton of new BI features. Check out a few new features in these videos (the sweet music beats in the videos are not included in the software).   Then of course there is PowerPivot, check out this new sales forecasting demo with PowerPivot and SharePoint 2010:       Register for the Office 2010 beta here http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/   You can download the PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010 and start Pivoting data like crazy!   Happy Pivoting!

  • Business Intelligence is available in BETA!

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

  • 2009 SQL PASS Summit Update

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

    Rick Sherman
    2 Feb 2010 | 12:01 pm
    Another one of my recent videos with SearchDataManagement.com:Achieving enterprise insight: Key trends in BI and information managementIs your organization getting the most it can from enterprise data? In this videocast, find out key trends in business intelligence and data management that are affecting how enterprises can achieve more insight into every aspect of their business. Find out the real trends making an impact today – and get advice for organizations seeking to truly leverage data as a corporate asset. In this tactically-focused, straightforward discussion, both IT and business…

  • Solving your application and data integration challenges

    Rick Sherman
    29 Jan 2010 | 5:55 am
    My new video with SearchDataManagement.com:Solving your application and data integration challengesBecause of the poor economy and corporate demands to increase revenue while cutting costs, business users are asking for more information now than ever before. The benefits of making more data available via a strong integration process are obvious, but many companies continue to struggle to solve their integration problems. In this video interview, we discuss the pros and cons of different integration technologies as well as service-oriented architectures (SOA) and enterprise resource planning…

  • Ten Data Integration Trends for 2010

    Rick Sherman
    26 Jan 2010 | 12:30 pm
    As we begin both a New Year and new decade in 2010 it is a great time to discuss the significant trends impacting the data integration marketplace. In a break from many trend lists, I am listing both positive and negative trends. It is important to look at the glass being half full and half empty to have a realistic assessment of where we are going. I certainly don’t want these negative trends to happen; maybe by discussing them we can help prevent them.The global recession had a significant impact on IT projects throughout 2009. Despite these economic headwinds data integration spending…

  • TDWI Boston Chapter Meeting Jan 21

    Rick Sherman
    12 Jan 2010 | 8:36 am
    Boston BI/DW and Marketing Business Professionals are cordially invited to attend our upcoming TDWI Boston Chapter meeting on January 21, 2010. Come meet other local professionals, swap business cards, share ideas, and exchange career advice while listening to quality presentations in a vendor-neutral setting, which is the hallmark of TDWI education. See our meeting agenda below. When: Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010, 1 pm to 4 pm Where: Children's Hospital Boston's Waltham Campus Deveber Conference Room 9 Hope Avenue Waltham, MA 02453-2765 Directions to Children's Hospital Boston at…

  • Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Contract Jobs in Massachusetts

    Rick Sherman
    6 Jan 2010 | 11:50 am
    Athena IT Solutions is looking for data warehousing and business intelligence consultants for contract jobs in Massachusetts. Senior Data Warehouse Architect Senior Data Warehousing/Business Intelligence Program/Project Manager Please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@athena-solutions.com. Senior Data Warehouse Architect Responsibilities: Overall responsibility for full lifecycle enterprise DW project including scoping, planning, analysis, design, development & deployment. Person must have prior experience overseeing successful enterprise DW implementations and designing overall…
 
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  • Business Intelligence: Identifying Profitable Niches

    9 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Janet Kuster details why business intelligence is the tool your program managers need for visibility into your most profitable and unprofitable niches.

  • Tom Coffing, Coffing Data Warehousing

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Tom Coffing explains how the Nexus allows business and technical users to integrate data across all databases.

  • Text Analytics Opportunities and Challenges for 2010

    8 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Based on interviews with various text analytics vendors, Seth Grimes provides the most important text-analytics technologies, solutions and market challenges for 2010.

  • Ermis Sfakiyanudis, eTelemetry

    4 Feb 2010 | 6:00 am
    Ermis Sfakiyanudis discusses how eTelemetry's products provide information leading to increased productivity, risk identification, reduced costs, greater E911 compliance, improved network efficiencies and insights into how people collaborate.

  • Are You Kidding Me?

    4 Feb 2010 | 12:00 am
    Bill Inmon is of the opinion that when it comes to software, you can have inexpensive or you can have complete, but you can't have both.
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  • Business Intelligence Offers the Promise of Widespread Benefits, Yet Many Challenges Remain

    8 Feb 2010 | 11:45 am
    From Blog: Industry ResearchNess Technologies survey of more than 140 firms reveals industry-wide shortfalls of over 50% in results achieved from BI initiatives. To read the full press release, click here.

  • Outsourcing DSS is not the same as OLTP

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:47 am
    From Blog: Ronald DamhofWhat we all knew was true, but could not get across to management, is now more scientifically proven. The decision process regarding the outsourcing of a DSS is influenced by significantly other characteristics, when compared to OLTP. If you are interested in the details, the theory and the underlying data, please read:Factors considered when outsourcing an IS system:an empirical examination of the impacts of organizations size, Strategy and the object of a decision (DSS or OLTP). B.Berg and A.Stylianou in the European Journal of Information systems (2009 18, 235-248)I…

  • Why Service Providers Fail

    7 Feb 2010 | 8:13 pm
    From Blog: Krish KrishnanI have seen large organizations fail with providing successful BI services. Often the blame is on the quality of service that was provided in terms of people and technology. But dig deeper and you will see that a lack of cohesive focus is where that organization would have lost the impetus in providing the service.One may ask what is cohesive focus. When you deal with a large organization, there are multiple processes and teams involved. There is bound to be different levels of maturity amongst the teams and this gap leads to lack of clarity and hence the lack of…

  • Excellent Research - Managing, Budgeting and Benefits of BI Initiatives

    5 Feb 2010 | 2:51 pm
    From Blog: Shawn RogersA great opportunity to share your experiences with the community and to receive a free copy of some great research on the "Organization of Business Intelligence - Managing, Budgeting and Benefits of Business Intelligence Initiatives".This research is provided by the BeyeNETWORK partners in Germany and will provide a global perspective on the topics.Business Intelligence is usually strongly focused on the technical implementation and challenges involved. However, organizational challenges need to be addressed as well.This research examines how business intelligence…

  • A retailer's holistic approach to BI

    5 Feb 2010 | 8:19 am
    From Blog: Lyndsay WiseEvery now and then I speak with vendors' customers to get a different take on solutions being used and what companies really think about products that are marketed with only a positive spin. I also enjoy hearing about the business benefits and value mid-market companies are achieving through their use of BI. As a bonus, I hope to get some insight into any snags or negatives about the product or overall BI project - which customers generally like to share once they start talking. The negatives are a great tool that can be used to provide insights to other companies…
 
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  • The ”And” Syndrome: How to Keep BI Development Proactive

    28 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    By Mary Anne Hopper, Senior Consultant Remember way back when your Business Intelligence organization was a small group of one or two people?   And then business found value in what you were producing so your group grew?     And then you created clear roles and responsibilities for the team?   And you started creating project backlogs?   And your group continued to deliver great results for the business?   And your team grew more?   And then things seemed to slow down in your ability to deliver and it was hard to figure out why? Could it have been…

  • MDM and All That Jazz

    15 Jan 2010 | 5:00 am
    By Rob Paller, Consultant Recently, senior consultant Bob Wall mentioned  building the team  as one of four proven starting points for getting your MDM program rolling. By now, you have probably identified the C-level executive experiencing the most pain as a result of working with unmanageable data. You have even gone so far as to identify a small project that allows you to demonstrate the value that MDM will provide the company.However, the success of your MDM pilot project and overall MDM strategy will come down to the team you assemble to support it. Interestingly enough,…

  • Why Data Governance Matters in 2010

    7 Jan 2010 | 9:07 am
    By Andy Field, Senior Consultant Imagine a large family with many teenagers and one car. It’s Friday night, the parents are out of town, and the teenagers have plans in different parts of the city.   On top of this, everyone is broke and the car is out of gas.   This situation has been coming up more and more over the last few years.   Over time some of the kids get jobs and buy their own cars, trucks, motorcycles to get around.   They don’t figure in the cost of insurance, repairs, maintenance, or parking.     In retrospect they realize they…

  • BI in Healthcare: Imagine the Possibilities (a Parting 2009 Holiday Wish)

    24 Dec 2009 | 5:00 am

  • 'Tis the Season for a Data Governance Carol (Part Two)

    17 Dec 2009 | 5:00 am
    By Rob Paller, Consultant   The writing was on the wall, and Ebenezer was beginning to comprehend that while the mergers and acquisitions looked good on Wall Street, the company was imperiled by the aftermath of poorly integrated systems, an absence of proper data management, and a gaping void in the governance of the company’s data. Furthermore, Ebenezer knew that one more ghost had yet to call upon him. Never before had the fear of uncertainty enveloped Ebenezer, but tonight was different. The Ghost of Data Governance Future No sooner did Ebenezer begin to calm his nerves, when…
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  • IBM Shakes Up Its Software Group

    13 Jan 2010 | 10:51 am
    Steve Mills, IBM Senior VP, has issued an internal memo announcing a significant split of the software group into a solutions and a middleware division. The shake up includes some very senior executives as well.

  • Where Did The Term BI Come From?

    30 Mar 2009 | 1:51 pm
    I just watched a cute video by Nic Smith on the history of Business Intelligence. Granted it was a shill for Microsoft but still it was cute and mostly accurate. However, there was one erroneous attribute that I think most people may not know. The term, "Business Intelligence" was not coined by Howard Dresner as stated in the video -- he did a fine job of making it popular but he did not invent the term. Read on to find out where it was first used...

  • Easy To Use? Nah. We Need BI That Is Easy To Consume!

    19 Feb 2009 | 8:30 am
    For my entire career in BI and data warehousing (going on more than 20 years now), I have heard the expression -- BI should be "easy to use". I suggest that it is time for BI's tag line to change to "easy to consume". Here's why.

  • Deplorable, Despicable, and Disgusting

    26 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am
    OK -- I have had a whole weekend to simmer down about John Thain, former CEO of Merrill Lynch, and his behavior. But it just kept getting worse and this morning, I have just had enough.

  • Our Christmas Tree is a Personal Data Warehouse

    23 Dec 2008 | 1:54 pm
    We decorated our Christmas tree last weekend -- and I realized that the decorations were snapshots of our family history -- basically our personal data warehouse. Certainly our tree will never make it into Good Housekeeping or win a prize for best decorations -- you could say it was "eclectic" to be kind -- but it is filled with many, many lovely memories...
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  • Most Popular Blogs

    Jonathan
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:26 pm
    “Which blogs are the most popular?” It’s a question I’ve started hearing again lately, especially as many of my work colleagues have begun experimenting with social media.  This is an unanswerable measurement question, just like for analyst relations or marine terminal gates.   To try to answer the question, many people cite Technorati’s Top Blogs as a ranking of blog traffic.    Only it’s not. Technorati’s top 5 ranked blogs as of Feb 1, 2010 are as follows: The Huffington Post Engadget Gizmodo Mashable! TechCrunch The Technorati Authority metric is based on the number of…

  • Speedlinking, Jan 2010

    Jonathan
    25 Jan 2010 | 10:23 pm
    Speedlinking on management styles and 2010 predictions: New research from The Work Foundation suggests that outstanding performance comes from people-centric leadership rather than target-driven, micro-management.  The authors observe that “outstanding leaders are focused on performance but they see people as the means of achieving great performance and themselves as enablers. They don’t seek out the limelight for themselves but challenge, stretch and champion others, giving them the space and support to excel.” An excerpt from The Contract, a poem by William Ayot:  And…

  • 2010 New Year’s Resolutions

    Jonathan
    3 Jan 2010 | 8:41 pm
    I’ve never been a big fan of New Year’s resolutions as the once-per-year goal settings usually come with unrealistic targets.  Without reasonable goals, resolutions take a back seat to day-to-day realities.  In fact, a recent Marist poll shows that, while nearly 50% of Americans are likely to make resolutions, 35% of them don’t keep them for longer than a few days.  Despite this, in the spirit of the resolution season, here are my own top 10: Less BlackBerry reading; more blackberry eating Avoid 2010 meaning that I traveled to 20 cities on 10 airlines Leverage twitter without…

  • First Mover Advantage

    Jonathan
    27 Dec 2009 | 9:14 pm
    During the holidays, I had the chance to re-read one of my favorite marketing books: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing by Ries and Trout.  While many people seem to think that the book is no longer relevant, I was more than a little surprised by how of much of the book I remembered and how much it still applies 15 years later. Over the years, I’ve frequently cited the Law of the Category: “if you can’t be first in a category, set up a new category that you can be first in.”  The classic example comes from the early solo flights across the Atlantic.  While many people remember that…

  • Are Non-Cash Rewards Better Than Cash?

    Jonathan
    20 Dec 2009 | 10:58 pm
    It’s the holiday season and I’m faced with my annual dilemma: How do I thank a small number of employees who have disproportionately supported the company’s and my own success over the last year?  For most of my career, I’ve believed that non-cash rewards were better than cash.  After all, cash gets used for next months’ car payment, to pay down a credit card balance, or for a night on the town. Cash disappears. I’ve noticed this behavior regardless of whether the cash is included in their pay checks, provided as a separate incentive, or given as a spot bonus. Maritz, a sales…
 
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  • Webinar: Get More out of Your MS Dynamics ERP & CRM with a Complete Business Intelligence Solution

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    22 Jan 2010 | 1:29 pm
    The power and value of Microsoft Dynamics is widely appreciated among business users and IT departments. Its ability to scale and adapt to a company’s unique business needs has proven it to be the most powerful ERP and CRM solutions available. Panorama Software has recently formed a strategic alliance with the RSC Group. By integrating our solutions, you can now extend your Dynamics solutions to drive Corporate Performance Measurement with a true pervasive BI suite, leveraging Panorama & Microsoft technologies you already own. Join us for this highly informative webinar to see an end…

  • Women in Technology: Rony Ross, Panorama Software (Interview)

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    20 Jan 2010 | 8:16 am
    There is an ongoing discussion in Israel about women in the sciences and technology and the conditions women find themselves in in the field. The discussion was renewed by the Jerusalem Post in October 2009 after Israel’s Ada Yonath won the Nobel Prize in chemistry when it published a piece on the difficulties of receiving research grants and getting a fair salary in Israel. Shortly thereafter I continued my series on women in tech with a post about some of the unique challenges that women face in Israel. I recently had the opportunity to interview Rony Ross, the founder and current…

  • How Cloud and On-Premise Platforms Work Together

    Rony Ross
    13 Jan 2010 | 9:40 am
    Today’s software industry buzzword is “Cloud.” We all know what it is, and some of us are already leveraging Cloud platforms to reduce resource consumption on-premise. Right now, many ISVs are making a black-and-white distinction between Cloud and on-premise platforms. When you’re evaluating software platforms, there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground because many providers are exclusively leveraging either one or the other. The problem facing most of us as technology managers is whether Cloud or on-premise makes the most sense for our businesses. Because there are strategic…

  • Reflecting on 2009

    Rony Ross
    6 Jan 2010 | 8:35 am
    When 2008 drew to a close just twelve months ago, the extent of the damage caused by the economic crisis was continuing to unfold, and the outlook for 2009 was pretty dismaying and bleak. After discussing the future with some fellow CEOs, I found that many of them shared the same sentiment: “2009 is a ‘dead horse’ for us. We just have to weather this one through. We’ll have to wait until 2010 for the turnaround…” Was 2009 a “lost year” from a business perspective? It was, if you only measure the year by growth. Most companies exhibited slow, minimal growth—if any at all.

  • Webinar: The Best in Business Intelligence for the Microsoft Platform

    Kseniya Savelyeva
    5 Jan 2010 | 9:55 am
    To get the most out of your Microsot SQL Server Platform, you need to ensure that you take advantage of all the unique capabilities it provides. While some BI tools are available from Microsoft directly, many have shown interest in extending those tools with a complete end-to-end Business Intelligence solution. Join us for a webinar, to see the most powerful, end-to-end BI solution that helps expand the reach of BI through innovative user interface, gives more power to the advanced users and extends collaboration inside and outside the firewall. And now, through the global partnership between…
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  • Creating Options

    3 Feb 2010 | 6:40 am
    An important measure of the success of an IT strategy and architecture is its ability to adapt to changing circumstances. • CIOs are faced with long investment cycles, while technology lifecycles are only getting shorter. IT needs to be ready for trends and requirements that are completely unknown when the investments are made. • A good part of IT innovation that drives new business opportunities comes from consumer IT, and CIOs need to be ready to link in. Today this comprises the 2.0 world: Trends on the horizon include augmented reality and sensor technology, for example. Analyst…

  • Oracle EPM Index, Round 2

    27 Jan 2010 | 11:47 am
    Oracle on January 19 launched Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Index II - the second study to investigate the progress of business towards Management Excellence. Key findings from interviews with 800 organisations in Europe and North America show that the recession may have actually had a positive effect on firms - forcing them to integrate and improve management performance processes and recognise the benefits of treating key management performance processes as a whole, not as disparate parts. Calculated on a scale of 0 to 10, the overall Index for all of the surveyed countries…

  • Cricket and BI

    22 Jan 2010 | 12:19 pm
    Remember my blog on BI and Rugby? Here's a better example on how to compare BI to sports. My colleague Jason Gates from Oracle Australia has a blog, that you can find here. A few months ago he wrote a blog entry about how to compare BI to cricket. Although the Dutch team (my home country) did beat England recently, I wouldn't consider myself an expert on cricket at all. So I leave this one to Jason! Read his post here. frank

  • The Need for Information Governance

    6 Jan 2010 | 6:52 am
    I had a wonderful discussion with Wouter van Aerle of Cap Gemini, about the need for information governance. He pointed out that this is taken care of very well, when it is about financial information, but often surprisingly poorly managed for non-financial information. This is concerning, because required external reporting increasingly consists of non-financial information. Non-financial external reporting is often still based on Excel spreadsheets, or a simple Access database that is hacked together. The data may look nice in a dashboard or official report, but may be directly keyed in by…

  • Continued Discussion....

    4 Jan 2010 | 6:41 am
    In the previous post, I mentioned how a reader reacted, asking some questions about the architectural consequences on not routing general ledger information to the data warehouse, but directly to the financial consolidation tool. Freddy Holwerda comments that I didn't address the full question. He writes: In the readers reaction, the real problem seems to be the understanding of the reader that: 'Same information at the same time" sounds as bad architectural practice'. You don't seem to address that (mis) understanding in your post. From my point of few, this is not a bad architectural…
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  • Herding Web 2.0 Cats: Contributions to Content

    Rob Meredith
    7 Feb 2010 | 4:50 pm
    This is the first of three posts looking at the details of a functional framework for Web 2.0 / social media introduced in the previous post.Tim O'Reilly's coining of the term 'Web 2.0' was based on an observation of the rise of a new breed of web company, based on a model of collaboration and socialisation rather than the traditional model of publisher/consumer. As I mentioned in the last post, O'Reilly talks about two different kinds of contributions that users of social media make to a web site that they didn't under the old model: contributions to the data set and contributions to the…

  • Herding Web 2.0 Cats

    Rob Meredith
    2 Feb 2010 | 5:30 pm
    The BI vendor marketing departments are scrambling to get on the BI 2.0 bandwagon, partly as a means of doing something different with their products and partly because they've seen the success of the Web 2.0 juggernaut and want some of that action. The efforts to date have ranged from the fairly ordinary (let's bolt on a comments feature to our reporting tool, but bury it on a separate screen!) to the potentially good (I'm watching the 12Sprints stuff with interest).The problem with BI 2.0 is kind of the same problem that Web 2.0 has, though: it's easily dismissed as nothing more than a…

  • Vendor innovation and the iPad

    Peter O'Donnell
    28 Jan 2010 | 6:33 pm
    Steve Remington and I have been working, along with our other colleagues, on a project looking at innovation in the BI software industry. We have been using press releases as a surrogate 'history' of BI firms. We think that they record - along with lots of sales and marketing related information - important events in the development of products. We have been looking at the major vendors, trying to determine if there has been any change in the rate and nature of product innovations since they have been taken over by larger general IT firms. The data is messy and complex and the answer doesn't…

  • Business Intelligence, 1923 style ...

    Peter O'Donnell
    3 Dec 2009 | 3:08 pm
    Continuing on the theme from the last post - a press release from C3 Business Solutions (a Melbourne-based BI consultancy) that includes some statements from me has been in the "wild" for some time now. Thought it was worth reposting here: http://www.abhishek-tiwari.com/2009/10/is-business-intelligence-too-sexy.htmlThe vendors do a great job of making everything they do seem exciting and new - that's their job, they have to sell software and that's a good way to do it I think. It plays into the general IT culture. However, there is a real danger we will ignore the lessons of the past if we…

  • Do we really build systems to improve decision making?

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

    Ashwin Dedhia
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:32 pm
    There is always a challenge to close the accounting books quickly and publish the statutory balance sheets with profit and loss accounts statement or for that matter internal financial MIS for monthly quarterly or yearly. There are various challenges when there are group of companies, local subsidiaries, international subsidiaries, branches, strategic business units, sister concerns, joint ventures, merger, acquisitions, investment companies, SPV’s etc. data to be consolidated in single financial reports. CFO team is always under pressure to publish quarterly, half yearly and yearly…

  • BI for Hospitality

    Vikram Kole
    31 Jan 2010 | 8:12 pm
    Success in the increasingly competitive hospitality industry is dependent on prompt knowledge of what’s going on in the operation. The need to know customer information: who they are, what they buy, and how likely they are to come back again, can be elusive. Additionally, the time-sensitive nature of business metrics makes it difficult to answer certain questions such as: What are daily sales results on an individual property? What are the average expense per day? What are labor costs? What is the daily cash position? The sheer volume and time-sensitive nature of events in the hospitality…

  • KPI for Stock Broking

    Dhiren Gala
    24 Jan 2010 | 8:42 pm
    Stock Broking, like the other financial services organizations have realised the need to deploy BI to manage risk, detect fraud, leverage customer insights and gain visibility into profitability. Major Revenue Sources of Stock Broking Organizations could be Brokerage from Cash, F&O, Commodity, Insurance, Mutual Funds, PMS, Wealth Mgt. Fees, Proprietary Trading, Margin Funding, Arbitrage, DP Operations (Client Servicing). Typical Business Processes of organizations in Stock Broking could be Capital Market (Derivatives – Earnings, Derivatives – Risk Management, Equity, Depository),…

  • Analytics in Media Industry

    Vikram Kole
    17 Jan 2010 | 8:12 pm
    Emerging new media such as digital formats and online media have lured audiences to migrate, making them powerful competitors for traditional media such as print, radio, TV, yellow pages and even outdoor ads. But not everybody has moved onto the web. Audiences still await morning newspapers, publications, entertainment programs on television etc. But whether you are in Advertising, Broadcasting, Publishing or Gaming, now Digitalization will change the way you do the business along with growth of new Distribution Channels, rising Operational Costs, need for innovation, Technology Enhancements,…

  • Features of Graphical Analysis

    Vikram Kole
    10 Jan 2010 | 8:42 pm
    Charts are used to understand large quantities of data and their relationship in a visual interface. Usually, charts make it easier to understand the source data, than reports displayed as numbers in tables.  The 1KEY Chart report format has been designed to give the user a visual view of information in different 2D and 3D chart views that displays information in a graphical form. Business user can compare trends, obtain patterns, and view graphical results of calculated fields using charts, which can be customized using various options available in the user interface. Depending on the data…
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  • Laptop Batteries perfomance optimally

    9 Feb 2010 | 2:30 am
    From blog: With your happinessLaptop Batteries perfomance optimally Toll: At last, the laptop battery power is sufficient in your notebook for longer work! Read how you get along with the proper battery care and a few more tricks without power. With its computing power must be portable computers (laptops) can ...

  • 'Obvious' Business Intelligence

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:00 pm
    From blog: Business Intelligence - A Practitioner's ThoughtsRecently, I happened to read a couple of books with the "Obvious" word in the title and thought of writing a post around some of those obvious things in BI that we all know but typically forget during the thick of action. A small note on those 2 "Obvious" books that I read - The first one is a classic called "Obvious Adams: The Story of a Successf...

  • KXEN keeps on going ...

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:15 pm
    From blog: Project Performance ManagementThat's the predictive analytics & data mining company (Knowledge Extraction Engines), not the radio station! Last I checked, they have about 40 employees and just US $5M in revenue. But Forrester ranked them as a leader, like SAS, they leverage PhDs in Mathematics and they have a business model that I have always liked and watched from afar in th...

  • EMV for Risk Analysis

    7 Feb 2010 | 1:15 am
    From blog: Project Performance ManagementWhen I meet with customers and project teams about how they are managing and assessing risk in their projects & programs, I find it quite interesting to see the different approaches from one industry to another. For example, utility companies do a very good job of assessing and calculating risk around potential project risks and issues. Engineerin...

  • The laptop 6 mainly hardware problem and prevention Methods

    5 Feb 2010 | 9:00 pm
    From blog: With your happinessThe laptop 6 mainly hardware problem and prevention Methods 1: Motherboard Ask the guys who repaired their ...
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  • Business Intelligence Resources

    Marcus
    8 Feb 2010 | 2:00 am
    [Download Free 56 Page Business Intelligence Resources White Paper Link Compilation] [Download Free 71 Page Business Intelligence Online Resources Annotated White Paper]Purchase 193 Page Professional Internet MiniGuide titled Market Intelligence Resources 2010 by clicking here. Business Intelligence Resources (BIResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for business intelligence which are listed below. We always welcome…
 
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    Visualising Data Uncertainty

  • Visualising Data Uncertainty

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

  • Search: Next Big Thing for Mobiles

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

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    Search: next big thing for mobiles

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    I Predict a Riot of Analytics in the Media Sector
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  • Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change

    27 Jan 2010 | 3:23 pm
    Profiles in Performance: Business Intelligence Journeys and the Roadmap for Change - Howard DresnerHoward Dresner touched on a crucial point in this book: before an organization can succeed, it first must create a culture that values performance, transparency, and accountability. He said when he began work on his book, his intention was to capture and present best practices of performance management, but along the way, he realized that the missing element that determines success or failure really boils down to the notion of culture. Just as well that he decided to write about…

  • 25 Stretch Goals for Management

    20 Jan 2010 | 6:01 pm
    I was surfing the internet when I found an interesting article about management, in the Harvard Business Review site, written by Gary Hamel. I am a fan of Hamel's work, since I read his books Competing for the Future and Leading the Revolution. In the article, entitled 25 Stretch Goals for Management (a preview Gary Hamel's February 2009 article in the Harvard Business Review, Moon Shots for Management), Gary tells of a meeting of business leaders, held in 2008, with the goal: to lay out an agenda for reinventing management in the 21st century. According Hamel, the two-day event, organized by…

  • Predictions and Trends for 2010

    16 Jan 2010 | 8:47 pm
    Every new year the people make their predictions for the future and also comment on trends. I've read many posts and articles about predictions and trends for 2010 on business intelligence and performance management. Below is a summary of some that I found most interesting:Early december Nenshad Bardoliwalla published in Enterprise Irregulars and in his personal blog, a very good and well detailed post entitled The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management, where he described his trends:1 - We will witness the emergence of packaged strategy-driven…

  • 10 Characteristics of Superior Leaders

    30 Dec 2009 | 9:36 pm
    David Javitch wrote a nice piece, in his Entrepreneur's column, with the characteristics of superior leaders. According him, the successful leaders share the following characteristics or views:1 - Mission: Leaders know what their mission is. They know why the organization exists. A superior leader has a well thought out (often written) mission describing the purpose of the organization.2 - Vision: Where do you want your organization to go? A vision needs to be abstract enough to encourage people to imagine it but concrete enough for followers to see it, understand it and be willing to climb…

  • Five Distinct Views of Scorecards – and Their Implications

    30 Dec 2009 | 8:03 pm
    Recently, I read an interesting article in Dashboard Insight, written by Gary Cokins, called How Many Types of KPIs are There?, where Gary did a great summary of an article of Brett Knowles, published in his firm’s Performance Measurement and Management newsletter. Brett is a balanced scorecard thought leader and founder of the consulting firm PM2. In the article, titled “Five Distinct Views of Scorecards – and Their Implications”, Brett describes different types of KPIs for different purposes. Below, is the Gary's summary:Valuation – There is a need to describe what the…
 
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  • Social Karma (Part 5)

    8 Feb 2010 | 10:06 pm
    In Part 4 of this series:  We discussed some of the recommended blogging best practices and general guidelines for creating useful content in your own unique blogging style. In Part 5, we will co...

  • Social Media Marketers Should Get Ahead of the Curve

    8 Feb 2010 | 4:44 pm
    Recently I was reviewing an interesting article by Ross Mayfield who is an advisor towww.Slideshar.comand co-founder of Socialtext. He is also at @ross on Twitter. My compliments to him and his team...

  • When does a hard science become a team sport?

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:52 pm
    The newest report from analyst firm Gartner just came out – and we’re all excited! It’s called the “Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.” Gartner issues it about once a yea...

  • Why Google needed a Superbowl ad

    8 Feb 2010 | 6:56 am
    We were watching the Superbowl on TiVo, about a half hour behind, when I got a text message from my son at college: ...quot;Google's super bowl ad was horrible. I'm going to use Bing....quot; I didn't...

  • MapReduce goes evolutionary

    8 Feb 2010 | 2:59 am
    Scientists from Texas A&M University have developed a new algorithm MrsRF (MapReduce Speeds up Robinson-Foulds) for analyzing large collection of evolutionary trees using MapReduce framework. Matthews...
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  • Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

    Al Pittampalli
    26 Jan 2010 | 7:31 am
    In case you've been hiding underneath a rock somewhere, Seth Godin's new book, Linchpin is out today.  It's the most important book he's ever written.  You should buy it.  You NEED to buy it. This book is a timely manifesto about doing work that matters.  It's about adding extraordinarily unique value,  or as Seth calls it, "creating art." This book scared me when I first read it and there's a good chance it will scare you too.  It forces a self evaluation that is extremely difficult... but necessary.  This book will revolutionize the way you think about "the system" (school, work,…

  • My Three Words for 2010

    Clay Hebert
    1 Jan 2010 | 2:55 pm
    Taking a cue from the forever brilliant Chris Brogan and his post today, below are my three words for 2010. My 3 Words – Revere, Ship, Daily Revere – I am not using the traditional definition of revere here, but rather a reference to Paul Revere, the revolutionary who successfully warned an entire region that the British were coming. In Malcolm Gladwell’s excellent book, The Tipping Point, he illustrates why Paul Revere was successful in his famous ride (the message tipped and spread), while William Dawes, a different man trying to accomplish the same goal, was unsuccessful. From…

  • Why New Year's Resolutions Don't Suck

    Al Pittampalli
    31 Dec 2009 | 8:22 am
    I see this every single year, but this year more than ever: People everywhere bashing the concept of making new year's resolutions.You might even go so far as to call it a movement.A growing number of people vowing with disdain to never make another one again, and urging others to do the same."They're stupid.They don't work!" they exclaim. NEWSFLASH:Your new year's resolutions didn't fail…You failed. The process of goal setting isn't broken.  And the idea of doing it in response to the changing of the year certainly isn't broken either. In fact, in a world where most people recognize the…

  • To the memories

    Jon Dale
    31 Dec 2009 | 6:19 am
    Some memories are created by accident.We spent this Christmas in a motel in Lawton, Oklahoma.  Not because that was the plan, but because an ice storm trapped us while we were out on a quick Christmas Eve trip.  No gifts, no stockings, not even a tooth brush.  Our kids will remember it forever because it was so different.Memories can also be created by design.  When they take your picture as you board the cruise ship they're telling you this will be an experience you'll want to remember for a lifetime.  And you do.  During our six months with Seth he placed a giant Moleskine on the…

  • Just one taste ...

    Susan Villas Lewis
    25 Dec 2009 | 2:17 pm
    Huh. Apparently I like beet, potato and raw onion salad. Who knew?Because I hate beets. I hate raw onions. And the whole concoction just plain looked ... wrong. Food doesn't (or shouldn't) come in that shade of purple.But anything new, I always require myself to try at least one bite. Because you never know.As you're making plans and resolutions for the new year, there are likely radical ideas and huge changes and stretch goals you assume you won't like, won't work, won't fit.Are you sure they won't?How about giving it just one taste to see before dismissing something potentially amazing out…
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  • Marketplace on High Tech Materials and Technology

    emarkets.de
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:38 am
    Inventables is an online marketplace focussing on innovative materials and technologies. The service targets both small and large companies to facilitate trade in the range of innovations. Companies are able to represent themselves and their products on the platform. Further information about the service and the processes on the platform are provided at the about [...]

  • International Wholesale Platform for Consumer Goods

    emarkets.de
    21 Jan 2010 | 10:45 am
    Daily Trader is an international wholesale platform for consumer goods, which is available in numerous country versions. Up to date trade leads are displayed within the homepage as well as assorted by country in the particular country versions. A search function enables to search for manufacturers, products and, too, for trade leads. Similar services are available [...]

  • European Online Marketplace for the Trade of Consumer Goods

    emarkets.de
    12 Jan 2010 | 7:36 am
    The online marketplace emarket.com is a european platform for the trade of cosumer goods. The service offers price transparency and business transactions in real time and a complete supply chain solution including payments and logistics. Both buyers and sellers may represent themselves within the platform including video. For further information visit the emarket.com homepage. Similar services [...]

  • International B2B Sourcing Platform for Asia Imports

    emarkets.de
    3 Dec 2009 | 9:00 am
    The Hong Kong Trade Development Council provides an international sourcing platform for asian products at the internet address hktdc.com. The service lists above 120000 qualified suppliers from China, Hong Kong and other asian countries. The site includes a directory assorted by industries and various ways to search for products or companies. Further features are news, videos [...]

  • Tender Platform for Logistics and Transportation

    emarkets.de
    3 Nov 2009 | 6:07 am
    Cargonis is an international platform for tenders in logistics and transportation. There are above 2000 companies represented at the platform offerung services from parcel and express services to heavy transportation. Registration for consignors happen at the homepage, participation for service providers is free. Similar services are available at the directory by Logistics, Transportation.
 
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  • An ALL WHITE BASKETBALL LEAGUE? Sure, why not?!

    Black Canseco
    8 Feb 2010 | 7:27 am
    A couple weeks ago, there's was some web outrage over the new WHITES ONLY Basketball League. 'Member that?  How bout now: Taken from the AABA's Official Press Release:The All-American Basketball Alliance announced in a news release Sunday evening that it intends to start its inaugural season in June and hopes Augusta will be one of 12 cities with a team. "Only players that are natural born United States citizens with both parents of Caucasian race are eligible to play in the league," the AABA statement said.Don "Moose" Lewis, the commissioner of the AABA,…

  • Musician Rogers Nelson Talks Chemtrails...

    Black Canseco
    7 Feb 2010 | 3:49 am
    I love this guy. He'll say anything when ever he feel like. And you know what?He's been right way more than he's been wrong. Next time you think about stopping to smell the roses, hope that's all you're smelling.

  • Deep in the Valley....

    Black Canseco
    6 Feb 2010 | 5:46 am
    You know I took a sec to sort thru some stuff I shot in '09 (cleaning out the harddrive and what not). All I can say is: There's some strange folks out here. Laugh all you want, I did. But i stopped soon as I realized that this guy is not only naturally cooler than 3/4ths of the guys with major label deals, but he's probably happier about what he does than you are about what you do.

  • The Roots: How I Got Over

    Black Canseco
    5 Feb 2010 | 6:49 am
    These cats grow on me. The really do. As summa y'all know I'm a regular TSS contributor comments section mainly. But Gotty, LC and nem are cyber-fam to me.Well recently they reminded me that Jimmy's Henchmen  are hard at work on their latest album currently title, "How I got Over." And the lead single which dropped a while back went totally ignored. After hearing it, I cant figure out why. Fortunately, they got a day gig to tide them over until this "rockstar thing" they keep chasing catches on. But seriously, this another hot one from Ahmir and the Boys.

  • "Poor People Are Like Animals," SC Lt. Gov Bauer says!

    Black Canseco
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:57 pm
    The news cycle kind of amazes me.We get all worked up over certain things, then ignore them like 3.5 seconds after the fact--not unlike children in daycare in between naps. (Haiti beware: we're about 2 days away from forgetting about your little quake-thingy all together.)It's been a couple weeks since the Lt. Governor of South Carolina said the following:"My grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. You're facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food…
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  • 11 Minutes of Action

    Marty O'Neill
    7 Feb 2010 | 11:36 pm
    That's how much real action is in a typical NFL television broadcast.  David Biderman's article by the same name in the January 15th edition of the Wall Street Journal cites a WSJ study of four recent broadcasts that suggests the average amount of time the ball is in play on the field during an NFL game is about 11 minutes.  So if you add up all the real action between the time the ball is snapped and the time it is whistled dead, you come up with a whopping 11 minutes.  That means you could actually watch each of the conference championship games during half-time of the Super…

  • An IDEAL time to review your IDEALS

    Marty O'Neill
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:40 pm
    "Give us clear vision, that we may know where to stand and what to stand for - because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything."  This is a 1947 quote from the Chaplain of the US Senate, Peter Marshall.  This or close resemblances of the "know thyself" quote has been attributed to among others, Alexander Hamilton, Ronald Reagan and for goodness sakes, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Steve Bratkowski.  A varied bunch to be sure.  But now that I've covered myself on the origin of this particular species, what is the point you may ask? The point is that…

  • The Right Decisions Done Quickly

    Marty O'Neill
    31 Jan 2010 | 11:57 pm
    This is the last post in a five part series on decision making. There simply are no second chances these days.  The wrong decision can be your last decision.  Leadership teams flailing in an environment where decisions are based on emotion and not clear data are in a hopeless situation.  A year ago I sat down with a CFO and CEO of a privately held $20M company.  The CFO was antsy about the market and presented a case for cutting about $900k in expenses.  Since the CEO was emotionally attached to a number of these expenditures, she was never able to pull the…

  • Manage Your Risk

    Marty O'Neill
    28 Jan 2010 | 12:55 am
    This is the fourth in a five part series on decision making. Risk is one of those words that is hard to quantify yet we all have an instinctive feel for the need to manage risk.  The focus of the leadership team should be only on the elements of the business that have an impact on business value at a risk level you can live with.  Your business may decide that in order to really increase the business value of the company, you'll need to shorten the amount of time it takes to bring a product to market by ninety days.  Your design team has found a way to integrate an extreme…

  • Speak With One Voice

    Marty O'Neill
    25 Jan 2010 | 12:45 am
    This is the third in a five part series on decision making. In the best of times, leadership teams may be able to survive while lacking a single purpose.  When budgets are tight and companies have little room for error, a leadership team at odds with the CEO's vision is fatal.  Independent thinking among the leadership team is fine during the strategy formulation state, but when it comes to implementation, there must be one voice.  Leaders must learn to focus on what drives value for the collective good of the company.  But it goes beyond the CEO and her leadership…
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    MicroStrategy 101

  • MSTR 9.0.1 (Release 2) and it’s New Features

    Senthil Raj
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:56 am
    MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 (9.0.1 products) is now available on the download site. What are the new features in MSTR 9 R2 (9.0.1) 1) Jump Start Project 2)  MicroStrategy Health Center 1) JUMP-START PROJECT                                     What is the Jump-Start Project?    Jump-Start is a complete MicroStrategy project that comes with 7 dashboards and 30 reports and all the underlying metrics, filters, attributes, and [...]

  • Free Reporting Suite has changed fate of MicroStrategy

    Ashish Tiwari
    18 Jan 2010 | 9:27 am
    I receive a lot of emails from all over the world who wish to learn MicroStrategy and some long lost friends have come asking about learning MicroStrategy. Also the curiosity of learning MicroStrategy have increased in some two quarter. This is based on my emails I receive, comments received on the blog,  my MicroStrategy forum, [...]

  • “Outer Join” in MicroStrategy

    Slavik Taubkin
    13 Jan 2010 | 9:59 am
    During the past few weeks, I was confronted with many interesting tasks of the MicroStrategy world. And once again I had to annoy me about the fact that there is no clever way to MicroStrategy, an outer join between the attributes to be generated. In Menu Data / Data Options / Calculations / attribute – join [...]

  • Using a transformation to calculate 5 last values within one SQL query

    Slavik Taubkin
    25 Dec 2009 | 5:48 am
    Here is one of my recent interesting tasks: Calculate some metrics only for the items that are in high demand. An item is “in high demand”, if its sales value were greater than the constant X in every of the last 5 months (including the current month). Solution First again setting of tasks: An article A is valid in [...]

  • Solution for not able to add tables in Warehouse Catalog

    Senthil Raj
    18 Dec 2009 | 7:56 am
    Issue: Not able to add tables/views to the Schema in Warehouse Catalog Error: ‘Error adding Table(s) to the schema. This key is already associated with an element of this collection’ Solution in MSTR 9: 1) Open ‘Architect’, 2) Right click the table <table name> 3) Add to the project 4) once its added, Right table in Left Pane and update structure 5) [...]
 
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  • What’s Your Number?

    admin
    3 Feb 2010 | 10:50 am
    Most of the times, start ups are heads down, focused on what they need to do to keep afloat and make it to that next milestone.  Every so often its good to come up for air and take stock of how you are doing compared to your competition, and your industry in general.  One way to do this is to review your numbers, er ratios.  Sometimes just looking at the numbers themselves is overwhelming and they may not provide any context.  Ratios are a good way to get some context -not only for how you company is doing on its own but comparing it to industry averages.  A bit of research should…

  • Social Branding, Why it Matters

    admin
    26 Jan 2010 | 8:27 am
    I saw this great post on the blog called Conversation Agent – “7 Keys to Social Branding”.  The post struck me because I thought it full of common sense.  Not everyone understands or appreciates social branding or social media, but what the author, Tamsen McMahon, talks about is helping the customer understand your company, and this could be taken more personally – understanding you.  By providing a consistent message, your client or customer gains a level of comfort as they know what to expect.  You stick out for them as result.  The key message here is that it…

  • Delegate or Dump

    admin
    21 Jan 2010 | 5:30 pm
    Delegate or dump?  Sometimes its hard to distinguish the two.  Often managers delegate the work they like the least as opposed to strategically assigning it.  In doing so, they’ve dumped the problems on others and walked away – its human nature after all, to avoid doing things we dislike.  But risks exist with simply passing along work without follow through or understanding of what is involved: loosing control of quality and potentially much more.  Here’s what I see as the problem.  Delegation requires some thought before execution and many managers fail to do it,…

  • In Pricing – Its What Your Client Thinks That Counts

    admin
    18 Jan 2010 | 9:50 am
    I ‘ve walked by this sign more times than I can count and I finally had to take a picture.  I know from talking to the manager’s that their desire is, understandably, to sign clients to a one year membership.  However, they do not have too many takers – most clients are selecting the six month option.  I wonder why?  Businesses need to remember that its not what they think their message says that counts, its what their clients think that counts. ©2010 Sagacious Think. All Rights Reserved..

  • SBA’s Look at at Key Issues for Entrepreneurs

    admin
    13 Jan 2010 | 8:52 am
    Looking over the SBA’s report on the “State of Entrepreneurism in the United States” it occurred to me that their criteria may not necessarily be what an entrepreneur considers as their information is funneled.  However taking a step back and gaining a broader view of the options available can make a difference.  I thought this report had merit, and added these ideas to consider when planning your business.  The link to the entire report is at the bottom. State Rankings on Personal Income Tax Rates – Personal income tax affects individual economic decisions on the…
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  • Sound familiar?

    Chris O.
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:58 pm
    For those of you who appreciate the creative and proper use of the English language, see my query: What advertising phrase is the most copied, i.e. unimaginative?  I cringe every time I see an ad saying something similar to “XX Product or Service Changing the World, One Customer at a Time.” So far about 80 marketing and communications brethren have sent in their favorite bad-ad themes (need to have a LinkedIn account to view). linkedin.com/group…

  • CommerceFirst Bancorp Wraps Up ’09 With Improving Profits

    Chris O.
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:57 pm
    ANNAPOLIS – CommerceFirst Bancorp/CommerceFirst Bank earned a consolidated net profit of $678,000 for the year ended December 31, 2009 compared to a net profit of $295,000 for the previous year.  Credit for the higher profit is due to demand for both commercial and industrial loans and commercial real estate loans, much of which are owner-occupied transactions with local businesses. See full release.

  • Shore Bancshares’ Numbers Down But Positive

    Chris O.
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:55 pm
    EASTON – Shore Bancshares reported net income of $1.216 million for Q4 2009, a drop from the $1.951 million for the previous quarter and the $2.261 million for the year-ago period.  For all of 2009, net income was $5.4 million, a little less than half of the $11.5 million reported in 2008.  Numbers were lower in 2009 because the bank holding company took a hit with the sale and repurchase of preferred stock under the U.S. Treasury’s TARP program. See full release.

  • Sandy Spring Bank Records Losses, Sees Bright Side

    Chris O.
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:53 pm
    OLNEY – Sandy Spring Bancorp/Sandy Spring Bank posted a net loss $4.4 million for Q4, more than the $3.8 million for the year-ago period.  Q4 included a provision for loan and lease losses of $21.1 million. 2009 totals were a net loss of $19.7 million, as compared to the $15.4 million for 2008.  Comments the CEO, “Looking back on 2009 and forward into 2010, we feel that this company has the underlying fundamentals and strength to weather the current economic cycle.” See full release.

  • Annapolis Bancorp Earnings Increase

    Chris O.
    3 Feb 2010 | 2:52 pm
    ANNAPOLIS – Annapolis Bancorp/BankAnnapolis registered net income of $381,000 for Q4 2009, an increase of $236,000 or 163% from net income of $145,000 in Q4 2008. On a sequential quarter basis, net income increased $158,000 or 71% from $223,000 reported for the three months ended September 30, 2009. See full release.
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  • For Private Equity, a Time for Wary Optimism

    By RHEA WESSEL
    9 Feb 2010 | 6:30 am
    It's time for "paranoid optimism" about the economy as the world maneuvers its way into a new balance of power, John Micklethwait, editor in chief of The Economist, argued at the Super Return 2010 conference on Tuesday.

  • Super Return: Black Sees Better Days Ahead

    By RHEA WESSEL
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:22 am
    Leon D. Black, the head of Apollo Management seemed relieved to exhale as Super Return 2010, the giant private equity conference, began in Berlin on Tuesday.

  • Warren: Banks' Sabotage of Overhaul Will Hurt Them

    By DEALBOOK
    9 Feb 2010 | 5:13 am
    In a scathing editorial, Elizabeth Warren, a professor of law at Harvard and the chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, denounces in The Wall Street Journal the deception that has become routine in the practices of U.S. banks, and renews the call for a consumer protection agency.

  • U.K. Told It May Sell Bank Stakes in 5 Years

    By DEALBOOK
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:11 am
    A committee of British lawmakers is publishing a report Tuesday saying that the government may sell its stakes in Royal Bank of Scotland Group and Lloyds Banking Group in five years.

  • F.S.A. Chief to Step Down This Year

    By DEALBOOK
    9 Feb 2010 | 3:54 am
    The Financial Services Authority, the securities regulator in Britain, announced Tuesday that its chief executive, Hector Sants, would step down this summer, having overseen the agency for three years and through one of the most turbulent times in its history.
 
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  • Have Courage

    Arash Sayadi
    8 Feb 2010 | 5:52 pm
    Inspirational Thought Do you have courage?  What is to be courageous? Both are loaded questions, but I think we can answer them easier than we think.  Can’t we think of someone who exemplified being courageous?  Don’t we all have personal, familial, or public heroes that serve as our guiding post for being courageous?  Of course we do.  So, we don’t need to necessarily define it so much as remember those examples when we need to act.  I’m a member of Toastmasters International and recently heard my mentee in our local club deliver a powerful speech on why…

  • It’s Time to Act

    Arash Sayadi
    1 Feb 2010 | 5:52 pm
    Call to Action If you’ve ever volunteered for an organization or thought about doing it, you may have heard about Idealist.org.  It’s a site to learn about various non-profit organizations, including related volunteer and job opportunities.  I recently received a disconcerting email from the founder about how the organization may be failing due to lack of funds.  I’ve posted the email message body below and I highly recommend we each take action however we can. You know how sometimes in life you go through a bad moment, and when your friends hear about it later, they say,…

  • When Ideas Ebb

    Arash Sayadi
    1 Feb 2010 | 7:00 am
    Business Strategies I’ve had a roughly two-week hiatus from this blog to think about my personal business direction and to gather ideas for this site.  This was a rejuvenation period as I noticed I was repeating topics here.  In my business, I was doing the same thing repeatedly, getting the same poor results.  Ben Franklin’s quote comes to mind, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” As I was going through this process, finding new directions and ideas to pursue, I realized how easy it is for me to do this compared to a…

  • Don’t Loose Your Dinosaur

    Arash Sayadi
    26 Jan 2010 | 9:56 pm
    Random Thoughts I had the misfortune of watching the latter half of Stepbrothers tonight, or may be it was fortunate that I did.  I’ve been running dry on subject ideas for this blog.  Over the past few weeks I’ve spent time with family on a snowboarding trip and visited CES in Las Vegas, searching for business ideas.  I learned quite a lot on these trips, but nothing coalesced when I opened my editor to write. What was so interesting about the movie Stepbrothers that compelled me to write tonight?  I heard a line that caught my attention: “Don’t loose your…

  • Have you Heard TED Talk?

    Arash Sayadi
    21 Jan 2010 | 7:00 am
    Technology Review I was listening to Ken Robinson’s talk at TED 2006 about promoting creativity when my wife, overhearing Ken’s speech, asked me what I was listening to.  I told her I was listening to a TED talk.  She didn’t know what it was.  This interaction made me realize there may be others out there who are unaware of TED and the myriad of ideas presented on the videos available on the site.  I decided to dedicate this post to describing TED. What is TED?  And what does TED talk about? Here’s the description on the TED website: TED is a small nonprofit…
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    on target

  • How to identify missing clients and visitors

    admin
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:00 pm
    What do a web site, a barber shop and a supermarket store have in common? Recurring visitors: no web site, and few business can survive without a constant flow of returning visitors. Find here some simple but effective formulas to identify missing visitors ASAP to prevent what is usually called churn or attrition.

  • How to Measure Business Performance in Two simple Steps

    admin
    4 Feb 2010 | 11:44 am
    To create business performance dashboard you can read a lot of books, text and articles about performance, KPIs and dashboards but none of them presents a complete example from conception to implementation. Moreover the approach is usually “cascade”: good for large, corporate project but not enough agile for departmental and medium business realities. 

  • 3 Great Web Analytics Books, 2 are free!

    admin
    1 Feb 2010 | 4:42 pm
    Analytics are a very hot topic today, and the term analytics itself was initially applied to Web measurement. If you have a web site and no analytics you are walking into absolute dark. In this post I suggest three great books on Business Analytics, two can be freely downloaded. 

  • User Analytics: How to visualize information

    admin
    27 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm
    In previous posts you have seen how to collect User Analytics. In this post you will see how to analyze it through OLAP by mean of simple but illustrative Inquiry. You will see how to generate a relational Data Warehouse to capture User Analytics data and how to create inquiries that satisfy your needs. 

  • An Effective Performance Dashboard Template

    admin
    20 Jan 2010 | 4:00 pm
    Dashboards are the preferred user interface to monitor performance. Every day new dashboards are created with different layout and style. Why reinventing the wheel? Here is a dashboard template that will match most needs. It is simple and effective and adheres to good design principles. You can use it as a guide or simply as source of inspiration.
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    DECISION STATS

  • Wordle.net

    Ajay Ohri
    8 Feb 2010 | 9:38 pm
    Here is some cool visualization of words of a poem I wrote . Courtesy tools at Wordle.net Here is a link to the underlying words of the Extroverted Engineer http://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/poem-the-extroverted-engineer/ Filed under: Analytics Tagged: data visualization, poetry, wordle.net

  • Movie Review: Between the Folds

    Ajay Ohri
    8 Feb 2010 | 3:08 pm
    This is an amazing movie on the art and science of origami, with great insights from people of all backgrounds, especially scientists who devoted a considerable amount of time to create wonderful shapes of art. An Award winning documentary, it looks at the truly amazing things one can do with a piece of paper, from creating wonderful sculptures to even research in proteins interaction and crash test bags. Recommended for a light 1 hour session when you want to get away and be inspired and have your creative juices unblocked. source- http://www.greenfusefilms.com/index.html View this document…

  • Predictive Analytics World

    Ajay Ohri
    3 Feb 2010 | 6:22 pm
    PAWS is coming this time to the Bay Area in two weeks. It is also almost coming at the same time as the conference Big Data Summit so SF bound conference attendees can probably do both. Source http://www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com/register.php Filed under: Analytics Tagged: conference

  • Big Data Summit- Bay Area

    Ajay Ohri
    2 Feb 2010 | 5:55 pm
    This event takes place next month in the relatively warm Bay Area. The event takes place at http://www.bigdatasummit.com/2010/sanfrancisco/ Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: aster data, big data summit, sf

  • SAS Global Forum: Academic Invites

    Ajay Ohri
    2 Feb 2010 | 5:39 pm
    In a series of posts on forthcoming, first and foremost is the SAS Global Conference which is giving away 20 invites to Students and also seperately to Faculty. This conference is based in Seattle and is from April 11-14 Source- http://www.sas.com/images/email/c17650/finalhtml.html Filed under: SAS Tagged: SAS, sgf2010
 
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    Kamaron PI: Positive Impact

  • How to Change Your Behavior And Shed Bad Habits

    admin
    5 Feb 2010 | 10:38 am
    Habits are a brain game. This time you could come out a real winner. What is a bad habit? It's something that we do regularly which is counterproductive to leading a life that is happy or healthy. It could be overeating, smoking, lack of exercise, being overly critical, compulsive shopping, or any of an infinite number of unhealthy habits which hold us back. And it's safe to say that all of us likely have at least one bad habit we'd like to change, if not many. Free you brain to break bad habits Weight:  -15

  • Five Different Types Of Polls And How They Can Benefit Your Business

    admin
    19 Jan 2010 | 5:01 pm
    Want positive press? Unique, fascinating or funny polls have proven hook for press attention. Polls are an often-overlooked method of generating buzz about a subject or a business. Journalists are always looking for quirky or surprising news tidbits, and a well-designed poll carried out by a professional research firm can provide them with exactly what they're looking for.  If you watch the news at all, you will see that polls are frequently featured - and we're not just talking about election time. Polls about dating habits, internet surfing habits, spending trends, and on and on, are…

  • How To Set Up, Run and Measure a Social Media Campaign

    admin
    11 Jan 2010 | 5:02 pm
      As we've discussed previously, social media campaigns have an enormous advantage over traditional advertising, because they are free and the results are easily measurable. Here, we're going to  talk about how to ensure the success of your social media campaign before you even get started. First of all, before you start, you will need to decide what your objectives is (are). If you don't have specific goals, you can't measure their success afterwards. Plan, launch, network, measure social media.

  • Social Media 2010 How To Turbocharge Your Business

    admin
    3 Jan 2010 | 3:52 pm
    Social Media Resolutions To Turbo Charge Your Business Social media has become a force that can't be ignored by the business world, and the best way to take full advantage of its power is to do the same thing you do for your business - formulate a plan of action, and follow it. Here are our recommendations for taking social media action in 2010: 1. Don't just formulate a plan; act on it Five ways to turbo charge business in 2010 Weight:  -11
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  • Forex Trading – 2010 Outlook For GBP

    Annabel
    27 Jan 2010 | 5:24 am
    Read This 2010 Outlook For The GBP And See What Could Be Around The Corner For Your Forex Trading… Having lost over 20% of its value since 2007 a welcome resurge has recently been seen in the Forex trading market. But how will the currency fair moving further into the year? Alot depends on the strength of the economic recovery and ofcourse the looming general election in which we may see a change of government. So how does that effect your Forex trading? At the end of the day if the UK once more becomes a favourable place to invest, then it all looks good for the GBP to continue…

  • Forex Trading System Video – Whats In Your Trading Plan?

    Annabel
    25 Jan 2010 | 11:39 am
    Everyone talks about a Forex trading plan – some kind of system which you follow… But what should a Forex trading system contain? Should you use multiple time frames? Should you add the exact methods of trade entry and exit? What about position sizing? Take a look at this video link. Its an interview with trader Robert Miner, the author of Dynamic Trading, who shares the main traits he feels most successful traders have in common. Take a look and see if you fit the mould!! Here’s the link: www.moneyshow.com Enjoy – To Your Success! Best wishes Annabel Forex Trader

  • Forex Trading Software – Just Found This Out

    Annabel
    18 Jan 2010 | 12:02 pm
    Forex trading software MetaTrader 4 and minutes shown on the time axis. OK so I finally figured out why my version of Forex trading software MetaTrader 4 was showing a different time to current GMT. After having a chat with other traders with a similar problem I thought I would share the solution with you. Having said that, you might already know this! When you download a version of MetaTrader, the software is affiliated with a broker who’s local time is shown on your chart’s time axis. So if you are in the UK and you happen to download MT4 or 5 with an affiliated broker from say…

  • Eight Forex Trading Ideas for 2010

    Annabel
    10 Jan 2010 | 5:53 am
    I was at the World Money Show in London last year – take a look at this Forex trading article with some great tips! This article isn’t a rock solid Forex trading forecast – no one can 100% predict market movement! But you may find these currency pairs are something you want to add to your ‘watch list’. Most Forex trading strategies originate from historical levels. Some analyists have been looking and reading charts for many years and it here we can gain from other’s knowledge and greater years in the industry. As we know Forex trading isn’t an exact…

  • Forex Trading Strategies

    Annabel
    6 Jan 2010 | 7:10 am
    Trading Forex using confluence and price action as one of your trading strategies. Have just found this post regarding Forex trading strategies. It discusses the importance of identifying trends on your charts and using them to make your trading decisions. This makes perfect sense and will avoid stumbling around other trades which won’t provide maximum returns for your broker account. The best form of trading is to pick out good quality, high probability trades which stack the odds of a successful outcome in your favour. Ofcourse, Forex trading is no exact science and you will have…
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    Trends and Outliers

  • Join Us at Predictive Analytics World February 16-17, 2010

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    9 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am
    Win big and strengthen the business impact delivered by predictive analytics. That’s the promise from the good folks at this year’s Predictive Analytics World event. We are honored to be a Silver Sponsor for Predictive Analytics World which will be February 16 – 17 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. We will be highlighting Spotfire S+, Spotfire S+ Server and Spotfire Miner at the show. Come by and see us and we’ll be glad to demo the drag-and-drop user interface, show the ease of use when developing sophisticated data mining and predictive models all without the need for scripts of…

  • Secrets to Successful Analytics

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    8 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am
    In “The Underwear Bomber: Why They Didn’t “Connect the Dots,”  Tom Davenport, analytics guru, uses the intelligence gaps to discuss the challenges of getting a single view of something from disparate data sources.  His follow up piece, “How to ‘Connect the Dots’ in Your Business,” Davenport highlights the same challenges from the perspective of an enterprise business; the underlying theory is that analytics only truly work if there are appropriate technologies on the back end and processes on the front end. Davenport makes some keen observations about using…

  • Business Intelligence Verdict: Survey 9

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    5 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am
    If you’ve followed the business intelligence market long enough, you’re sure to recognize the name Nigel Pendse and his well-known OLAP Report.  In recent years the OLAP Report has evolved in the BI Survey.  BI Survey 9, now open, is an annual report based on a survey of business intelligence and performance management users.  The report is described as “uncovering the truth about why real-world organizations select business intelligence products, how they use them and with what success.” BI Survey 9 is being marketed as “the customer verdict.”  Share your opinions on business…

  • Business Intelligence Results Depend on What You Measure – And Changing With The Times

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    4 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am
    Anaytics tools can spot patterns and details in data you possess.  But innovation consultant Larry Keeley is fond of saying “Sometimes things change.”  And keeping your tools sharp can be a challenge in a fast-moving, changing business environment. Keeley leads the innovation adviser Doblin and has done so long enough to see dramatic, creative business advantages turn into commodities. Just think of the uniqueness of Dell custom-made computers, built when you ordered them, or Zipcar’s auto-sharing.  It wasn’t long before rivals embraced a similar approach. Confusion over…

  • Computers Watch TV – And Analytics Means They Do It More Intelligently Than We Do

    Spotfire Blogging Team
    3 Feb 2010 | 4:55 am
    An article in Security Products magazine shows how analytics tools are advancing the security and safety fields.  Thousands of cameras with terabytes of data and storage demands the kinds of business intelligence tools to deliver what you need, when you need it. These analytics systems do the equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack.  London has more than 10,000 video security cameras in its transit system alone, called “the Ring of Steel” and there are about 3,000 in Chicago and another 3,000 coming in New York City.  Taipei recently announced plans for 13,000 cameras city-wide. …
 
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    The think (here) Blog

  • Top 5 Twitter Tools

    Jason Markow
    9 Feb 2010 | 2:18 am
    A quick twitter #101 video on the top 5 tools to get you chirping in style.  Yes, the video quality is less than perfect.  We were racing the sunset to get this one cranked out. Many t(h)inkers out there will already know about these tools, but it never huts to share.  Do you use a tool that we missed or should have made the top 5?  Leave a link and comment below and help us out. t(h)ink on.

  • Best of #FAILweek

    Jason Markow
    5 Feb 2010 | 1:18 am
    After reading through all the #FAILweek submissions one thing is crystal clear: There are an impressive number of incredible bloggers and entrepreneurs truly grabbing life by the horns, giving it 100%, eliminating "fear" of failure, and taking action from what they have learned.  Below you will find a collection of some of the standout posts from bloggers across the web, but you should know upfront that narrowing down the standouts was incredibly difficult. There were truly so many great contributions.  For a complete list of the bloggers who participated check out…

  • #FAILweek Part 3: Failing Forward

    Jason Markow
    4 Feb 2010 | 1:00 am
    *Note: This is part 3 of a 3 part blog post. Reading Part 1 and Part 2 is highly recommended before reading this post. **Temporary Note: This post was written entirely via phone. Any spelling, grammar, and general lack of links will be resolved within 24 hours. The most important part about the2200 going down in flames is that we were able to adapt quickly to create another opportunity for success. My business partner and I agreed that we are not ready to throw in the towel just yet.Yes, the setbacks were substantial. Yes we burned through 90% of our funding, and yes the site has already…

  • On Excuses

    Jason Markow
    3 Feb 2010 | 8:44 pm
    As I settled down to write the conclusion to my #FAILweek story a funny thing happened. A series of unexpected events caused my wifi signal to die. As a result Firefox crashed in a way unfamiliar to me. As I began to tinker with the two fresh problems that materialized from nowhere an all to common 'WOOOOM' chimed from the laptop speakers informing me that I had under 10 minutes of power remaining unless I plugged it in. Can you guess where this is going? After a quick search I remembered my power cord is sitting on the desk in my office... 56 miles away. After one of the longest days I have…

  • #FAILweek Part 2: Everything Comes Unglued

    Jason Markow
    2 Feb 2010 | 3:03 pm
      NOTE: This is Part 2 of a 3 part post.  It is strongly recommended that you start at 'Part 1' by clicking here. 3, 2, 1, LAUNCH The stage was set, the community was pumped, we were ready.  It all boiled down to customizing and re-launching the ad campaign that was so successful for the "Designer" portion of the community over to the "Client" side.  In all the meetings, discussions, and hypothesizing that lead up to launch day, this seemed like a no brainer.  The clients could use every feature of our site for free.  We assumed we would not have a difficult time…
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