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It’s that time of year again. The ever present New Year technology predictions are sprouting like spring time weeds in my grandfather’s tomato garden. This seems to have sparked a renewed energy around the topic of RSS. I must say, it’s exciting to see a continually growing surge in discussion and awareness around RSS and [...]

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#26-Reports Inventory

On November 24, 2006 By

Heres one of the first steps in starting your company’s Business Intelligence strategy: Take an Inventory of all of the reports that get distributed throughout your organization, and who they go to. Next to each report put how many man hours are required to generate that report. This should be an eye opening experience. Look [...]

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In my last post I referenced the following quote from Jeffrey Gitomer’s “Little Black Book of Connections” about building success strategies: “The only difference between where you are right now, and where you’ll be next year at this same time, are the people you meet and the books you read.” — Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, author [...]

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If you have never read a Jeffrey Gitomer book, now is the time to sprint to the bookstore. There are good books, great books and what I call "mantra books". Those books that you build professional and life strategies around. The 2.5 that I have read over the last two years fall into the mantra [...]

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With the list of software solutions being offered as a hosted service growing daily and the innovation behind them spawning some very killer applications, it can be all too tempting to either migrate some of your legacy applications off premise, or perhaps take use of some new service that was not previously available to your [...]

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The dust is far from settling on the 2.0 uprising, but I thought it time to take the water wings off and dive into the deep end. As some of you know, I’m the CEO/Owner of the Business Intelligence Software company Latigent. We provide ETL and Reporting/Analytics/Dashboard software primarily to the Call Center space. I spend a great deal of time watching market trends and understanding what things like AJAX and Open Source mean to our ever changing industry.

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