PowerPoint and Failure to Communicate
08.30.2010

Seth Grimes

As a tool for communicating data-derived insights, PowerPoint comes up repeatedly, praised or under fire, reflecting the office software's ubiquity, adaptability, and unfortunate ease of misuse.

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Seth Grimes

Mobile BI, Situational Intelligence, and a Call-Out to SAP-Sybase
08.25.2010
Mobile computing is a disruptor, a game-changer. Forward looking organizations, notably recently merged SAP and Sybase, have seen mobile's enterprise potential, including as a BI revolutionizer. Our vision should extend to situational intelligence, situational awareness coupled with interpretation of the users status, plans, and goals and enhanced with analysis of the user's social network...

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Advanced Visualization Is Top of Mind at TDWI
08.23.2010

Cindi Howson

I'm back from last week's TDWI conference in sunny San Diego... I briefly visited the Executive Summit to hear about what trends CIOs and VPs of business intelligence think will have the biggest impact over the next three years.

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Curt Monash

Big Data is Watching You!
08.11.2010
The subjects of large-scale analytics may be categorized as: people, financial trades, electronic networks, and everything else... Some of the most interesting -- and potentially privacy-invading -- use cases are concentrated in the areas of identifying individuals, groups of people, or behaviors of (groups of) people. For example

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September 1-3
Gartner 12th Annual Future of IT Conference
Mexico City

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Gartner The Future of IT
Lima, Peru

Sept 13-16, 2010
Brainstorm DC (BPM, SOA, Architecture, Rules Management & Cloud Computing)
Washington DC

Sept 14-16, 2010
Gartner Future of IT Conference
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Sept 14-16, 2010
Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit
Scottsdale, AZ

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Gartner Outsourcing & Vendor Management Summit
Orlando, FL

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Garter Outsourcing & IT Services Summit
London

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Gartner Future of IT Conference
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Interop
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10 Predictions For Analytic Decision Support by 2015
August 30, 2010
by Dhiraj Rajaram
By 2015, companies will increasingly blend math, technology and decision sciences, employing user-generated data to infuse analyses with behavioral and social-network insights.

Expert Analysis: A Case for Socialization of Data
July 26, 2010
by Seth Grimes
It's time to integrate social data, enterprise analytics and enterprise data for better social-media strategy.

10 Steps to 21st Century BI & Performance Management
June 1, 2010
by Ventana Research
To improve decision making, follow top tips including reducing the number of spreadsheets in use and expanding the use of performance metrics.

Advanced Analytics: Teradata's CTO on Breakthrough Insight
April 26, 2010
by Doug Henschen
Stephen Brobst makes a case for open access to data, simpler analytic tools and new forms of social network analysis.

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IBM Big Sheets Helps NC State Sell Innovation
Breakthrough NoSQL-style text analysis speeds search for technology developers.

IBM To Buy Marketing Management Firm Unica
Campaign analysis and automation firm will stoke competition with SAS, Teradata and Adobe.

SAS Lawsuit Referred to European Court
Both sides claim victory in court case against software clone maker World Programming Ltd.

Memphis Cuts Crime With Predictive Analytics
Tennessee city attributes 31% drop in crime rate to knowing when and where to put cops on the street.

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