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Open For Business (Intelligence)

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
4:17 PM

"We are the most open-source-friendly traditional business intelligence vendor." That seems to be the mantra of every BI software maker these days, and they'll fall all over each other to yell it the loudest.


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BI: A Worthwhile Use For Cell Phones?

Posted by ted kemp
Monday, November 28, 2005
4:26 PM

Like many of the technological devices I own, I've got a love-hate relationship with my cell phone. That said, I'm sometimes staggered by the new capabilities being built into mobile phones. Do I really want to watch TV on my cell phone? Does anyone? Is that really necessary?


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Google Analytics Get The Thumbs Up

Posted by ted kemp
Wednesday, November 23, 2005
3:44 PM

The readers have spoken. And here's what they said: They like the idea of Web analytics tools from Google.


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The Little Guys' Head Start

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, November 17, 2005
11:45 AM

"Standardization." It's a big word in business intelligence ever since organizations of all sizes stepped back, looked at the number of BI tools they were using, and realized it was, in a phrase, too many.


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Microsoft's Theat To BI Vendors: The Readers' Take

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
5:37 PM

Business Intelligence Pipeline readers are of several minds on whether Microsoft's forays into analytics threaten the traditional BI vendors.


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Google's Web Analytics

Posted by ted kemp
Monday, November 14, 2005
4:36 PM

Google, that paragon of market-breaking technology, has begun giving away its Web analytics services.


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Polls And Online Security: The Readers' Take

Posted by ted kemp
Friday, November 11, 2005
11:44 AM

We got a few e-mails from readers responding to my last blog entry, about executive defections from Oracle and consumers' concerns about handing over data about themselves. Between the two topics, it was clear that the impact of spyware and security breaches on consumer intelligence gained the most interest.


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Oracle Resignations, Consumer Reservations

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, November 10, 2005
1:01 PM

Oracle, as a company, matters to business intelligence experts. The reason is simple. If you're performing analytics, there's a darned good chance you're depending on Oracle data sources for a good part of the information you're examining. Just as with any other vendor, you want to keep up with what's going on inside the company -- good or bad.


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Cutting Out Guesswork

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, November 8, 2005
4:42 PM

Performance management software can help business managers decide when to do things, yes. But it can also tell managers when not to do things.


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Site Analysis Works Better When You Actually Have Customers

Posted by ted kemp
Monday, November 7, 2005
12:25 PM

A study has come forward declaring that security fears are pushing more people to cut the time they spend online -- the second such study in the last couple months.


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BI Development Tools' New Open-Source Player

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, November 3, 2005
5:30 PM

I've already told you about how open-source business intelligence is stretching beyond reporting. Now it looks as if open-source BI development tools are stretching beyond reporting as well.


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Informatica, Microsoft And Print Market Invincibility

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, November 1, 2005
4:37 PM

Informatica is talking up a new version of PowerCenter -- it's up to version 8 now -- and you should read up on some of the new-fangled data integration goodies they're including on this release.


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