Wednesday, February 08, 2012
When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave - and more are on the way.
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Tuesday, February 07, 2012
...the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) model is undergoing rapid change with the trends of mobility, social media and consumerisation of IT making BI a more user driven, rather than a data driven process.
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Monday, February 06, 2012
This oncoming tsunami of positions requiring analytical skills presents a solid opportunity for business intelligence (BI) professionals. Are you ready for the vast opportunities it will bring? To be able to take advantage of an opportunity, one has to be prepared.
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Friday, February 03, 2012
Through a partnership with the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI), the Red Cross has linked up with six teams of researchers from around the country, including analytics experts from Baylor University, the University of Pittsburgh and the IBM Watson Research Center who will analyze data from the Red Cross database to develop tools for improving the organization’s outreach efforts.
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Thursday, February 02, 2012
When [the blog poster] first started running programs that dealt with big data — meaning both a lot of data about something or somebody and a lot of things or people to have some data about — big was actually pretty small.
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Mobile is the hottest trend going today in business intelligence. Enterprise Apps Today asked a group of business intelligence experts to share their tips on how to optimize mobile BI.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Gartner analyst James Richardson sounds a note of caution regarding potential return on investment, however: "SaaS- and cloud-based BI is perceived as offering a quicker, potentially lower-cost and easier-to-deploy alternative, though this has yet to be proven. It's evident that, despite growing interest, the market is confused about what cloud/SaaS BI and analytics are and what they can deliver."
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Monday, January 30, 2012
In this information age, the businesses that have the best relationship with their data are the businesses most likely to succeed. And over a very short space of time, as the amount of data has grown exponentially and the ability to access information becomes more urgent, this relationship between businesses and data has shifted from being quite simple and straightforward to something potentially extremely complex. So, the companies getting business intelligence (BI) right are at a significant competitive advantage over their peers.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
The [US] federal government continues its efforts to help users more easily locate information through its open-data repository Data.gov with a new community for government education data.
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Thursday, January 26, 2012
I’m currently at the MicroStrategy World Conference in Miami. I’m impressed with Miami’s weather (a staggering 25 Celsius average over the last 3 days) and MicroStrategy's offering called Wisdom.
Wisdom is a free application that blew me away. It visualizes data that many marketers would kill for including age, gender, and location. The visualizations could use much improvement, but the data represented was quite interesting.
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