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Think Globally, Analyze Locally

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
4:12 PM

All this talk about "operational BI" and "pushing intelligence to decison-makers" is mostly just theory, right? No, it isn't. And nothing illustrates better than example.

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Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, February 23, 2006
12:07 PM

If you still haven't gotten the respect you deserve from your CIO, that might change.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
11:44 AM

"Information management" goes way beyond the relational database -- if for no other reason, than simply because relational databases can't handle the entire job.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, February 16, 2006
1:27 PM

Open-source application server and middleware maker JBoss attracted huge attention last month when it announced it was moving up the stack by building the first commercial-use product based on Enterprise Java Beans 3 (EJB3). Now JBoss is back in the news -- as a potential buyout target.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
1:02 PM

It's a good thing for Siebel's base of engineers that the firm started building analytics capabilities before Oracle acquired the firm. Otherwise most of them might be out of a job.

Posted by ted kemp
Friday, February 10, 2006
5:44 PM

Here's the latest on the increasingly boisterous Web analytics vendor scene: WebSideStory bought Visual Sciences, a maker of streaming data analysis and visualization software. Within hours, we here at Business Intelligence Pipeline heard from Greg Drew, CEO of WebSideStory rival WebTrends, who gave his take on the matter. He is, in a word, unimpressed.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, February 9, 2006
12:59 PM

Everybody likes product reviews, and we have a new one here on Business Intelligence Pipeline from our own uber-reviewer, Jacques Surveyer. Jacques take an under-the-hood look at Business Objects' Xcelsius and Xcelsius Workgroup, tools the BI bellwether based on technology it acquired from Infommersion last year.

Posted by ted kemp
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
1:22 PM

Don't believe the hype: Google didn't make any of the traditional Web analytics vendors happy when it started giving away online analytical tools. But that doesn't mean the existing vendors don't have defensible "we're-not-afraid-of-Google" rhetoric to throw at analytics-buying customers.

Posted by ted kemp
Thursday, February 2, 2006
12:28 PM

Information technology makes for a rocky career path, with IT workers' skills sometimes declared obsolete overnight. And even many IT pros who stay on the cutting edge now face the threat of outsourcing.

But not the business intelligence experts.