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Last fall I participated again in the ICCM Canada Keynote Panel: 60 Ideas in 60 Minutes moderated by Paul Stockford from Saddletree Research. Dave Butler over at NACC recorded the session and has been distributing the ideas presented in his monthly newsletter. I keep promising him that I’ll expand one of mine into an article [...]
Continue Reading →I came across a clever demonstration of Analytics from a Business Intelligence software provider called QlikView, and thought it worth sharing. Note- In an indirect way, Latigent competed with QlikView and I always admired their clever marketing campaigns. In this application of their analytics tool, they dumped radio airplay data from MediaGuide.com into an OLAP [...]
Continue Reading →Looks like Pentaho closed a $12M Series C round of financing. This is exciting stuff. With the consolidation of large Business Intelligence players its opening the market for the already under served SMB and for Enterprise BI projects looking for a lower cost of ownership. The only real question is if these guys will [...]
Continue Reading →“The process of discovering what you don’t Know you need to Know.” -Chris Crosby Technorati Tags: Analytics,Chris Crosby,Business Intelligence,Daily Musings
Continue Reading →OK, so the title is a bit overstated, but now that I have your attention: A couple months ago Google [quietly] released a hosted charting API. Albeit it lacks the sex appeal of their big splash products like GMail or Google Docs, it tapped my imagination. The basic concept is that your application passes [...]
Continue Reading →The last of the large BI acquisition dominoes fell today when IBM announced it’s intention to acquire Cognos for just short of $5b. With Hyperion and Business Objects getting snapped-up by Oracle and SAP respectively, Microsoft "trying" to march its way into BI/Performance Management, and rumors of a Cognos/IBM deal floating around since last year, [...]
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