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1. How to Easily Visualize Data

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 10/23/2009

   The biggest problem we have with data is not collecting it and storing it; it’s analyzing it. This is why business intelligence applications are at the top of every IT priority list. But the problem with most business intelligence applications is that they don’t make it easy to see the data. In...

2. It's Simple: Users Want Easier BI

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 04/26/2007

   We hear a lot about making business intelligence more user-friendly, more pervasive -- more democratic, if you will. All of the BI vendors are plugging these terms into their sales pitches. So yes, the issue is over-hyped. That doesn't make it any less relevant, though. Unlike some technological...

3. Optimize Survey: BI Is Going Places

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 05/01/2007

   Based on results of an Optimize survey of 100 C-level executives, it's clear that business intelligence is going places -- most notably out into the corporate trenches . While BI today is largely confined to finance, senior executives and IT managers, respondents predict that line-of...

4. Here's an Altruistic -- and Intriguing -- Use of BI

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 07/02/2007

   We are suckers for innovative uses of business intelligence -- especially those that involve broad societal issues, like how to reduce crime or how to improve crop yields . So we were quite taken with a recent Intelligent Enterprise article describing how an organization called...

5. Predictive Analytics: Dodgers to Win World Series

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 10/13/2009

   If you believe in the power of predictive , then the Los Angeles Dodgers are about to win the World Series. According to the folks that make WebFocus predictive analytics software as Information Builders Inc. (IBI), the Dodgers should defeat the Los Angeles Angels in an all Southern...

6. The Need for BI Speed

   [ Blog ] Topic: Data Warehousing | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 11/05/2009

   There are a lot of data warehouses out there that can no longer keep up with the pace of the business. Most data warehouses were built on the assumption that performance would hardly be an issue. The business side wasn’t expected to stress the platform by making too many queries, and just about...

7. The Future of Business Intelligence in Healthcare

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 10/30/2009

   One of the more significant developments in the intelligent use of IT to help rein in costs kicked off this week in the form a new Web site that allows patients to compare pricing for healthcare services delivered by doctors in their healthcare network and those outside the network. From a...

8. Building a Real Business Intelligence Network

   [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: MikeVizard | Date Published: 10/30/2009

   It seems like everywhere you go these days, end users want to have more intelligence about the business. But the question that seems to be coming up more often is if there is a difference between what end users are actually asking for and what IT is giving them. When IT staff hear a request for...

9. Data Integration and BI: The High Cost of Doing Nothing

   [ Blog ] Topic: Data Integration | Author: LoraineLawson | Date Published: 11/18/2009

   Increasingly, data integration and data quality initiatives go hand-in-hand. And with good reason: Experts say it costs $1 to verify a record at the source, $10 to later cleanse and de-dupe it, and $100 if nothing is done, according to a recent Computerworld Technology Briefing on business...

10. BI Requirements: Don't Just Give Users What They Want

    [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 08/24/2009

    Trying to come up with the right requirements for your business intelligence system? Most companies simply ask business users what they want. This certainly seems like a logical approach. But it's not, writes Larry Zagata on MiPro Consulting's Unfiltered blog. The problem is, users are (either...

11. Process Management Is Weak Link in Real-Time Data Chain

    [ Blog ] Topic: Business Intelligence | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 09/17/2009

    I am the weak link in the real-time data chain. That's because there's a delay -- sometimes a significant one -- between my brain processing information and telling the rest of my body what it needs to do. Not only that, but too often my body can't perform the task exactly as desired. And sometimes...

12. Advanced Analytics, Collaborative Approach Real Winners in Netflix Contest

    [ Blog ] Topic: Data Analysis | Author: AnnAll | Date Published: 09/22/2009

    There are several winners in Netflix's million-dollar competition to find an algorithm that will improve the accuracy of its recommendation system and, in theory, help it retain more customers. Obviously there's BellKors Pragmatic Chaos, the team of statisticians, machine-learning experts and...