Estimating the cost of Business Intelligence (0)
2/08/10 •
How much does a single Business Intelligence report cost a company? Well, obviously there is no single answer- but Boris Evelson of Forrester took a shot at it recently in a blog post. Even when it's not an easy question, it is worth pursuing, and Boris lays out a useful discussion.
$150 000 [...]
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Mystery or Junk data warehouse dimensions (0)
1/18/10 •
Sometimes, when you are designing a star schema model, you'll find yourself in a dilemma. You've come up with a beautiful design, right out of the pages of a Ralph Kimball book with 5 dimensions, and 5 measures, and you are on your way to star schema heaven when suddenly the users start asking [...]
Spreadsheet errors- Fear, uncertainty and doubt (0)
1/11/10 •
I love the acronym FUD which stands for "Fear, uncertainty and doubt". What I don't love is the underhanded use of FUD to manipulate peoples behavior. Spreading FUD is not about creating something new, but destroying- destroying someones confidence in something, clouding the real issue, stopping a new or creative direction from being [...]
The tragedy of anti-data leadership and dataphobia (1)
1/07/10 •
There has been a lot of discussion in the last year or so about how important data analysis is becoming.
IBM made a major move into data analytics by establishing a new organisation "Business Analytics & Optimization Services" with 4000 people in it.
There was the much quoted Hal Varian of Google who predicted that [...]
Data migration Part 5- Breaking down the information silos (0)
12/22/09 •
During a data migration project, the information technology department is in a unique position to either help or hinder how well all the different parts of a company work together.
The transactional systems that a company uses can be the glue that binds, or can be a key part of the walls that block inter-departmental collaboration [...]
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