We don’t acquire the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic by ourselves or for ourselves alone. We largely read what others have written, and write for others to read. In …
Are You Making an IMPACT?
If you are not making an IMPACT, what’s the point in doing? This was the question Nigel Risner posed at the Annual BDIA Conference in June. How often do you …
The Big BI Dilemma
Every technology, every architecture, and every design technique has an expiration date. And this is very true for the world of information technology. It would be inconceivable if assembler languages, …
Dashboard Best Practice Guide
What is a dashboard? A dashboard visually displays multiple reports on a single page, allowing you to monitor your most important metrics at a glance. Dashboards are the perfect way …
Get More Out of Hadoop by Building Your User Community
If you are launching Hadoop in your enterprise, you’ll want to get the most out of its rich data. Users across the enterprise have important roles to play in your eventual …
An Introduction to Graph Databases
Graph databases are one of the fastest growing categories in data management, yet they remain an enigma to many. What can these workhorses do for your enterprise? If you are …
Information – the Next Natural Resource
I’ve spent my career looking at how large quantities of complex information affects every part of our lives and this is the most exciting time to be doing that. Information …
5 Reasons Cloud MDM Will Save you Money, and 5 That Will Save Your Business
The benefits of cloud computing have been written up and proven in every way imaginable. You need only to look at the rapid growth and ascension of popular consumer sites …
Happy Birthday Data Warehouse—Thirty Today!
Well, perhaps not exactly today! But, it was way back in 1986 when I and colleagues in IBM Europe first defined a data warehouse architecture for internal use in managing …
8 Business Intelligence Trends to Embrace in 2016
View Post5 More Themes from a Chief Data Officer Forum
This article is the second of two pieces reflecting on the emerging role of the Chief Data Officer. Each article covers 5 themes. You can read the first five themes …
5 Themes from a Chief Data Officer Forum
This article is the first of two pieces reflecting on the emerging role of the Chief Data Officer. Each article will cover 5 themes and the concluding chapter can also …
The BI and Data Governance Disconnect
In many organisations the Business Intelligence (or Management Information) team is a very separate entity from the Data Governance or Data Quality team. Indeed, in many organisations the BI Team …
Why Big Data Requires a Big Commitment from the Top
Executives at a European financial services firm had a vision. They would create a data analytics application to collect information about all their customers’ behaviors and preferences in all the …
Preparing Data for Analytics: Making it Easier and Faster
Advances in data preparation and integration will have a major impact on BI, visual analytics, and data discovery. Here are three points to consider as you evaluate and deploy these …
Q&A: BI Leaders Must Evolve to Survive – interview with Wayne Eckerson
View PostThe Times They Are A –Changin’
David Beckham, Senior BA – Aviva Life, david.beckham@aviva.co.uk David will be speaking at our Business Analysis Conference Europe 2015 on The Power of Change – A Personal Journey Date Masamune …
Management Systems – A Value Based Governance Model
Management systems often have a bad reputation among employees. If you look at a large organization and ask its employees about its management system, you are likely to get a …
What is Decision Intelligence Anyway?
View PostSelf‐Service BI Requires an Integrated BI Platform
Once upon a time, all the reports were developed by IT specialists. But that’s a long time ago. Nowadays, tools for reporting and analytics allow users to develop and maintain …