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05. 9.2008
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05. 8.2008 Now that the dust is settling on Microsoft's failed Yahoo! bid, let's turn our attention to the announcement (burried under the hostile-takeover talk) that Yahoo! will make IndexTools a free service. Coming so quickly on the heels of the acquisition, it would seem to serve notice to Omniture, Google Analytics, and other Web analytics vendors about the seriousness of Yahoo!'s intentions. Read more from Phil Kemelor >> Is BPMN Overrated? 05. 8.2008
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05. 7.2008 The New York Times publishes exceptional visualizations. A couple this week stand out: "All of Inflation's Little Parts," graphing the average American's spending by category, and a map of the human "diseasome" that supports the article, "Redefining Disease, Genes and All." What distinguishes these visualizations is their success at communicating relationships along multiple data dimensions. Read more from Seth Grimes >> Stop Managing From Scarcity! 05. 7.2008
Over the past few years, I've been suggesting that people stop managing from scarcity. The cost of hardware has fallen so sharply that we should reevaluate our methodologies and designs that sacrifice function for resource efficiency. In data warehousing, we still create summarized versions of detailed data... depriving people of the analytical content of the whole picture... Is this really necessary? Read more from Neil Raden >>
05. 6.2008 The topic of BI was largely missing in action at this week's SAPPHIRE event, though John Schwarz, CEO of Business Objects, an SAP Company, did give a keynote address today. One of the highlights of the presentation was a demo of the Polestar search interface running on top of the SAP BI Accelerator — more evidence that in-memory technology is getting fast-track attention. Read more from Doug Henschen >>
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Consider Data Value When Deciding What To Store A report from the Society of Information Management says it is just as important to figure out what data you can throw out as it is to decide what to store. ILog Module Speeds Deployment of Analytic Models Rule engine vendor offers a faster way to deploy, tune and manage predictive and statistical scorecards. SAP Plans NetWeaver Process Management and Rules Management Tools The technologies will let business users work with developers to quickly create changes to business processes, SAP said at Sapphire 2008. Tibco Adds Service Performance Monitoring To ActiveMatrix Tibco's Service Performance Manager monitors services to detect any latency in response times. HP Launches 'Extreme' Storage System Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme is designed for Web companies and other organizations that need multipetabytes of data storarge. SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies SAP will announce Tuesday on-demand "components," due out next year, that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says. SAP Software Appliances Will Run on HP, IBM Hardware Pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS. Gaylord Hotels Taps Text Mining to Boost Guest Satisfaction How can you quickly make sense of text-based comments on thousands of customer surveys? Text analytics helped this mega-hotelier uncover hidden obstacles to customer loyalty.
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ANALYTICS What BI Practitioners Can Learn From Operations Research  • Smart Systems Without Rocket Science: Q&A; With Fair Isaac's James Taylor • Gartner BI Summit 2008: The Next Generation of Innovation • Smart Enough Systems: Change Rules, Not Processes MUST READS
BPMS Watch Rates 11 Business Process Management Suites The BPMS Watch Ratings Report for the Second-Quarter 2008 takes a close look at the integration, human workflow, production workflow and case management capabilities of industry-leading BPM suites. All-around standouts include BEA and Lombardi, Oracle, Software AG, EMC and Global 360. How To Choose Among The Four Bright Lights Of BI After a tumultuous year of acquisitions and consolidation, the business intelligence market is now dominated by IBM, SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft. All four are pitching enterprise-wide BI platforms, each with its own twist. Here's what you need to know about them. Top U.S. County Reinvents Government Planning and Performance Maricopa County links performance metrics, financial plans and strategic goals. Microsoft PerformancePoint dashboards keep managers, employees and budgets on track. Kimball University: Should You Use An ETL Tool? You can still hand-code an extract, transform and load system, but in most cases the self-documentation, structured development path and extensibility of an ETL tool is well worth the cost. Here's a close look at the pros and cons of buying rather than building. Gartner BI Summit 2008: The Next Generation of Innovation Decision making as core competency, emerging technologies as BI enablers and changes in the BI market itself are core topics at this week's Gartner Business Intelligence Summit in Chicago. Analyst Kurt Schlegel explains the trends and business drivers. Gartner BI Summit 2008: Q&A; With Howard Dresner In a preview of his keynote presentation at this week's Gartner Business Intelligence Summit, former analyst Howard Dresner talks about his new book, the convergence of BI and process management, and what it takes to get to the next level of performance management. The 'Secret Sauce' of BPM Success The business process management market is heating up, and a new report reveals that centers of excellence are the key ingredient of deployment success. |
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