Business Intelligence

Interview with Sue Collier

Posted on 25. Aug, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Interviews, Misc. Writing, Publishing

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In this interview with Sue Collier, I discuss the writing process, self-publishing, and the publishing industry.

Podcast on SaaS and Cloud-Based BI

Posted on 12. Jul, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Tech Target

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In this podcast with Craig Stedman of TechTarget, I discuss SaaS, cloud computing, and BI.

Business Intelligence 2.0 Webinar

Posted on 19. Mar, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, Webinars

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What’s changed in Business Intelligence in the last five years? In this 25 minute webinar, I discuss recent trends and make a few predictions about the future of BI.

Technology Today #17: Jill Dyche on Business Intelligence

Posted on 18. Feb, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Technology Today

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Organizations are often awash in data, simultaneously having too much data but somehow not enough. Maybe they don’t have the right data or a way to interpret so much data. To combat this problem, many organizations use applications that loosely fall under the business intelligence (BI) umbrella. It’s a cool topic and who better to talk about it than author and consultant Jill Dyche of Baseline Consulting.

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Vince Vaughn and Enterprise 2.0

Posted on 04. Feb, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, SaaS, Social Media

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Many have predicted that 2010 will be the year of Enterprise 2.0. Of course, that term is still evolving and I put forth my own definition of it in Chapter 1 of The Next Wave of Technologies. Rather than internally debate what the term means, I tend to read up on emerging technologies with the intent of finding how they’re being used and the effects that they’re having on people.

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My Second IT Education

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010
Categories: Agile Development, Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Collaboration, Misc. Writing, Web 2.0

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My friend and fellow Wiley author Vinnie Mirchandani writes the popular and well-respected Deal Architect blog. In a guest post, I write about the “real world” IT education that I received working with so many experts on my second book. I also offer a few nuggets from the book on business intelligence, social media, cloud computing, agile software development, and mobile technologies.

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Kranzberg Revisited: Too Much Technology?

Posted on 05. Jan, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Misc. Writing, Social Media, Web 2.0

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A few months ago, I wrote a post on Kranzberg’s Six Laws of Technology. Perhaps my favorite of the six is the following: Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral. In this post, I ask a series of questions about the actual and normative limits of technology.

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When Business Intelligence and Social Networking Unite

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010
Categories: Business Intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media

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Consider two types of technologies: those truly “new” and more established ones enhanced by the former. In this post, I discuss the confluence between a relatively new technology (social networking) and a more established one (BI).

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What is Enterprise 2.0 and Why You Should Care

Posted on 01. Sep, 2009
Categories: Business Intelligence, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Systems, Infrastructure, SaaS, Social Media

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Now is an exciting–some would say chaotic–time in the technology world. I’d be lying if I wrote that I could predict the future, but I’m hardly going out on a limb by stating that the technology landscape now will look quite a bit different in five years compared to today. The ways that people use technology are changing as fastas I can write.

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When the Displacers are Displaced

Posted on 02. Jul, 2009
Categories: Business Intelligence, Data Issues, Social Media

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No organization–not even a successful one founded during the dot com boom–can rest on its laurels. New technologies can be used quickly to displace industry leaders.