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Blogs

IBM Makes BI Mashup Play with Cognos 8 Mashup Service

Just last week, IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson wrote a fine post on the idea of , freeing business users to produce BI reports using data from a variety of sources with little, if any, intervention from IT. As Forrester Research analyst James Kobielus says in a recent TechTarget article...More >

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The Never Ending War for Data Quality

One of those issues that is always a source of frustration in the enterprise is the quality of the data we spend so much time and money processing. The quest to make sure we have high quality data is nothing short of a never-ending battle between the forces of order and the chaos that envelopes...More >

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Unpredictable Analytics and the World Series

There’s no joy at Information Builders Inc. as the mighty predictive analytics application has struck out. Prior to the start of the baseball playoffs, one of IBI’s leading lights in the area of predictive analytics used its software to come up with . As we all know, the New York Yankees,...More >

Articles & Interviews

Data Quality Management for the Insurance Industry – A Practical Approach

Most industries are heavily dependent on data, since it is vital and forms the basement for revenue generation, cost controls and risk management. In particular, the insurance industry’s reliance on an efficient data management is many degrees higher due to the nature of the business, which... More >

Desire to Reveal Hidden Insights Driving Growth in Text Analytics

Ann All spoke with Seth Grimes, owner of and principal consultant for Alta Plana , a company that provides business analytics strategy consulting and implementation services with a focus on advanced analytics (BI, text mining, data visualization, analytical databases, complex event processing)... More >

Data Acquisition for the Insurance Industry – A Practical Approach

Most industries are heavily dependent on data, since it is vital and forms the basis for revenue generation, cost control and risk management. The insurance industry, in particular, runs the business of managing promises made on paper (called policies). The data collected is voluminous, each stage... More >

IBM Continues to Roll Dice on Business Analytics

Over the past five years, IBM has bet big on business analytics. The company will continue to gamble on business analytics with the announcement that it will hire or train 4,000 new consultants and build six new analytics centers around the globe, reports V3.co.uk . IBM will also expand its business analytics... More >

IBM Software Taps Sensors for Business Process Automation

Today IBM announced WebSphere Sensor Events, software that extracts actionable business information from the millions of interconnected sensors that link items in the physical world. The software connects the captured sensor data with a company's process management system and can then be automated to respond accordingly by... More >

Government Proposes Changes to Cookie Policy

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has detailed a new plan on the use of HTTP cookies by federal agencies. InformationWeek reports that under the proposed plan federal agencies could use cookies as long as the following criteria are met: Their use is lawful. Citizens can choose not to be tracked. A notice of the use of... More >