Gartner says – Business Analytics a $14.1 Bln market
The term “business intelligence” (BI) dates back to 1958, when IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn coined the term in an IBM Journal article. However, it took until 1980s when decision support systems (DSS)...
View ArticleThe Vendor Landscape of BI and Analytics
“In God we trust, all others bring data” —————————- The “Raw Data -> Aggregated Data -> Intelligence -> Insights -> Decisions” is a differentiating causal chain in business today. To...
View ArticleBI, Analytics, Reporting Center of Excellence (CoE)
John Wanamaker, considered a pioneer in modern advertising, said: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the problem is I don’t know which half.” Today, we can say the same of enterprise...
View ArticleHarry Potter, The Elephant, The FBI and The Data Warehouse
In the ancient Indian parable of the elephant, six blind men touch an elephant and report six very different views of the same animal. Compare this scenario to a data warehouse that is getting data...
View ArticleProactive Risk Management – New KPIs for a Dodd-Frank World
The financial crisis of 2007–2011 is driving widespread changes in the U.S regulatory system. Dodd-Frank Act addresses “too big to fail” problem by tightening capital requirements and supervision of...
View ArticleAnalytics-as-a-Service: Understanding how Amazon.com is changing the rules
“By 2014, 30% of analytic applications will use proactive, predictive and forecasting capabilities” Gartner Forecast “More firms will adopt Amazon EC2 or EMR or Google App Engine platforms for data...
View ArticleDo you have BI Performance Anxiety ?
BI is key to enabling companies to turn oceans of data into predictive models and actionable decisions. However, a survey of 353 executives in large companies, reported that their chief BI concern was...
View ArticleWanted: CIO – BI/Analytics
In a tough economy, a new tech-fueled BI and analytics arms race is on to create the next competitive advantage. Everyone is beginning to look beyond the status quo in BI, analytics, Big Data, Cloud...
View ArticleOracle’s Analytics-as-a-Service Strategy: Exalytics, Exalogic and Exadata
Following the success of its Exadata (database as a service) and Exalogic (middleware-as-a-service) engineered systems, Oracle unveiled Exalytics Business Intelligence at Oracle OpenWorld 2011. The...
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