Ending the Reign of the Swivel Chair: The Biggest Business Problem Enterprise...
Interactive Data Corp (IDC) published a report a few years ago titled 'The Hidden Costs of Information Work'. In it they reported that 'searching for and analyzing information both consume 24% of the...
View ArticleKilling Zombies: Debunking 6 Common Enterprise Mashup Misconceptions
Misconceptions are dangerous. Like zombies in a bad horror flick, they take on a life of their own as they spread through a community. And they have an annoying tendency to persist. When the...
View ArticleThe Greatest Gift Your IT Folks Will Ever Give You: Self Serve
The holidays are all about giving. If I were the Chief IT Elf, I'd tell my department to give you LESS. About 60% less. Before you think me a Grinch or a Scrooge, let me explain why, in this case,...
View Article10 for 2010: I Predict Google Gars, Apple Books, a CNN Moment and More
It's that time (again) when 'arm-chair visionaries' like me sit back and attempt to predict the next 12 months of technologies. In preparation, I did a quick search to see what others predicted for...
View ArticleThe Information Sound Bite of 2010: "We Failed to Connect the Dots."
After the attempt on Christmas Day to destroy an airplane on its way from Yemen to Detroit, President Obama said; "There was a mix of human and systemic failures that contributed to this potential...
View ArticleWith Enterprise Mashups, Sometimes 1+1+1=I've Never Seen THAT Before
We all know the cliché: the result is greater than the sum of its parts. Quite often that's how Enterprise Mashups are described, 'combining things to produce something more,' a 'better version of the...
View ArticleMy Company Went to the Cloud and All I Got Was This Infinitely-Scalable,...
Cloud, Cloud, Cloud. Everywhere you look, someone is talking about "The Cloud." Check out the Google Trends chart below. I'm pretty sure Cloud computing is not a fad, but if you're like me, you're:...
View ArticleShould Enterprise Mashups Be Part of Your BI Strategy?
If you're not a BI expert (like me) and you went to Gartner's recent BI Summit in Las Vegas to feel good about BI, you would have been terribly disappointed. This had nothing to do with Gartner, they...
View ArticleYou Can't Stop (or Fight) the Pendulum
BusinessWeek Online just published an interesting article called 'Mobile Business Apps Flourish at IBM, Google.' As a constant media-watcher, I can tell you that it is quite a milestone when the...
View ArticleAre You in the BI Abyss?
A few months back I attended a 3-day conference on Business Intelligence, hosted by one of the big analyst firms. It took me less than 15 minutes (listening to the keynote speaker, in fact) to realize...
View Article2011 Predictions: It's Really Time for Real-Time
This year I decided to do things a bit different than past years. Before placing my first bet on this year's prediction list, I decided to wait and listen to what 'the experts' were saying about 2011...
View ArticleThe New BI is Just-In-Time
Earlier this year I had the pleasure of visiting the Boulder BI Brain Trust (BBBT) where I had the opportunity to sit down with a great group of well-known BI experts. These aren't just "BI folks" but...
View ArticleGuest Post: Getting a Chokehold on Your Data
A quick note: I often hear great ideas and see great blogs from peers and co-workers. Here's a great writeup from Americo Savinon, a genuine Mashup expert and an aficionado of the martial arts....
View ArticleIs Your IT Organization Ready for the Attack of the Angry Birds?
It sounds like the setup for a joke: 'What happens when you bring Angry Birds into your Enterprise?' But the punchline is anything but funny: 'Nothing until they make a nest in your data center and...
View Article7 Wonders of BI: Straight from Gartner's Summit
A few weeks ago, I attended a packed 2012 Gartner Business Intelligence Summit and I have to admit, it continues to be my favorite enterprise software event of the year. I've been to hundreds of events...
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