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Are You in Denial About Governance, Risk, and Compliance?
In a previous post, I talked about the “illusory superiority” effect, and how it blinds people to the fact that, on average, it’s unlikely that they use data better than their competitors. Guess what?...
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Interview: The Need for Big Data Governance
Business intelligence industry veteran Richard Neale will be presenting a session entitled Are You Ready For Big Data Governance? at the UK SAP Innovation Forum on March 11th 2014 in London. I took...
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ETL and Information Governance Discussions From DSLayer
If you’re interested in SAP, BusinessObjects, and everything to do with Analytics, I encourage you to check out the Diversified Semantic Layer site (tagline: “unprofessional journalism at its...
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Gartner BI and Collective Insight
Jason Rose, VP of BI and Advanced Analytics Marketing for SAP, will be presenting at Gartner BI this week in London, UK. I took the opportunity to find out what he is hoping to get out of the...
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Q&A: Self-Service vs Traditional Business Intelligence
I was recently contacted by Falk Tewes, an MBA student at New Buckinghamshire University in the UK who is working on a master thesis about ‘Management aspects of a Self-Service BI strategy: the role...
View ArticleThe Big Trends in Business Intelligence Competency Centers
Interested in the latest trends in BI Competency Centers (BICCs)? Here’s a (long) presentation I put together last year that covers the latest and greatest best practices when it comes to organizing...
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SAP Festival Geneva: A Deluge of Digital Business And Technical Value
It was the annual SAP Festival event last week in Geneva. There were separate days and agendas for HR, Supply Chain, and Finance professionals, and I presented the keynote for the Innovation Day part...
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Can You Trust Your Big Data?
Big Data is increasingly important to corporate architectures Despite increasing claims that Big Data is a buzzword that has been overhyped, and that it’s really just data, the subject remains a hot...
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Predictive Machine Learning: ROI Beyond Cool
I was a guest last week on the Game-Changing Predictive Machine Learning radio show last week hosted by Bonnie Graham. The other guests were Gil Gomez of Deloitte and Hudson Harris of HarrisLogic....
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A Big Cryptographic Boost for On-Demand BI and Extranets?
A recent cryptographic breakthrough made by Craig Gentry that potentially has huge consequences for business intelligence. One of the big problems plaguing the use of on-demand business intelligence...
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