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TWTW, Smackdown Edition...
Actionable business intelligence--what a concept!All Things Considered--No Wait, that's NPR--All Things Seen and Heard on BI and performance management...Yahooooooooooo!THE BI Blog...the BI blog...the...
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Sign of the Times--Bernard Departs
I wanted to add my own personal observation to others who have written this past week (I liked Darren's post over at the Lucid Era blog as well) about Bernard Liautaud's official departure from...
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Information Week Breaks the Seal...
It's interesting how all the BI vendors go to great lengths to adhere to the strict guidelines and protocols established by Gartner and the other analyst firms on what you can say about your own...
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Surprise, Surprise, Puppy Surprise
Big news from Gartner yesterday with the release of the new BI quad. The quad itself positions Microsoft as the dominant vendor in the "ability to execute category," partly due to their partner and...
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Putting the Truthiness in BI
Ok nation, time for a fact check - or at least a little dose of reality for the BI truthiness that seems to have invaded the performance guys blog from somewhere in the pacific northwest. First we had...
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Breathless Reporting? Me Doth Thinkest Thousest Protesteth Too Mucheth...
Contrary to reports that my blog post yesterday was "breathless" reporting by Pat, I feel as though I must respond as such:1. Wow, um, thanks.2. Let the record reflect that it wasn't me reporting with...
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Performance Guys get in on the action with XI 3.0
Check out the latest news on the new Business Objects BI platform, named Business Objects XI 3.0. The new product release brings the promise of information integration and delivery into one BI...
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THERE We Go...
FINALLY the Business Objects Gartner press release makes its appearance.Given the multitude of changes going on internally right now in the BI and performance management structure (one look at the new...
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XI 3.0--The Stealth Launch
While we've previously mentioned our brief, but captured-for-posterity, mention in the XI 3.0 launch video, what hasn't been covered nearly as much is how surprised everyone seems to be that this...
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Out and about.
Apologies for not piling on to the new Business Objects launch, but interesting to read from multiple sources about the surprise nature of the new release...who says there will not be any surprises...
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BI Chasm Crossed?
If you were around in the early days of BI you likely heard term "Crossing the Chasm." The term, was actually the title of a well known marketing book by Geoffery Moore, which was labeled the bible for...
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Pentaho-mentum Fever, Catch It!
Congratulations to our good friend Lance Walter (or Walters), and his merry band of Pentaho-ites on their recent round of VC funding. Having raised money and suvived the gauntlet of presentations to...
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SQL 2008 Launches in LA - Ballmer Talks
The next wave of Microsoft BI launched last week with the launch of SQL Server 2008. The event in Los Angeles reached 4,000 attendee and is the first city of an epic tour that spans across the globe as...
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Press Release Performance Management - Can We Get a Little Clarity
Ok, so I am overdue to get my blog on after a recent long vacation. Thinking that I needed to get up to date with everything in BI and performance management I did a quick surf of a number of websites...
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Corporate Help for Planet Earth
Watch the following video to get a glimpse at what large corporations can do to help with environmental concerns. Watch videoThe video speaks to how environmental efficiences not only save the...
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Is Your Team #1?
Walking through San Francisco International and I happened to glance up and see the newest (at least to me) "We're #1" pronouncement from Oracle. They claim to be #1 in Enterprise Performance...
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Panorama and Google Apps--The End of Software as we Know it?
The blogosphere has exploded today with the announcement of the tie-in between Panomama and Google apps. An interesting BI angle here, although adoption of Google apps is fairly non-existant--that...
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The Big "O"
News of Oracle Corp's share drop echoed around the software market today as Oracle shares fell 7 percent Thursday March 27. Questions again arise around whether or not the shopping spree the company...
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HammerTime!
As you no doubt have been hearing if you’re either at the Gartner BI conference this week, or if you’re a regular reader of all the hip, happening IT publications, InfoWorld (among others) has the...
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Chicago was host to the Gartner BI conference this past week. I had a chance to attend and tried to focus most of my time on the CPM side of the house attending most of the performance management...
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Fly American - Take the Bus
So you really can take the bus instead of flying with American. I am currently enjoying a flight delay in the Austin airport after my AA flight got canceled along with thousands of others across North...
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Costco - Operational BI and Muffins
There is lots of talk about operational BI and how to make information actionable in order to focus on the customer. I saw it in action today at Costco. Shortly after scanning our card while checking...
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This is Going to Sting a Little...
Saying you're sorry is never something that vendors are over anxious to do, let alone publicly. Every vendor, from time to time, has to deal with issues that spiral out of control, with of course the...
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Getting Lucid With Foreigner
Just when you thougth June might slide by without a post from the potentially overworked and certainly defocused performance guys, I happened to stumble upon yet another blog gem from LucidEra....
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