Dresner’s Point: Business Intelligence Initiatives Often Have Knotty Value
May 20, 2012:
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom … it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair …” Of course that’s the renowned beginning of Charles Dickens’ 1859 historical novel, “A Tale of Two Cities;” but it could equally describe a company at the on-ramp for a business intelligence initiative.
Consistently in our annual Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study, survey respondents state that making better decisions is their primary goal for business intelligence. Or, as a participant in my weekly #BI Wisdom tweetchat sessions stated, the top goal is “making better decisions — faster.”
Dresner’s Point: Watch Out for the Credibility Gap in BI Data
May 13, 2013:
It’s a question that arises frequently in businesses, especially when the news headlines point out that an important analysis was based on a statistical spreadsheet error. (See, for instance, the April 19, 2013 Financial Times blog, How much of Reinhart/Rogoff has survived? on an error in the foundational computation on public sector debt ratios.)
In my weekly #BIWisdom tweetchats, participants frequently banter about the pros and cons of spreadsheets in the business intelligence world.
Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market Study Released!
May 20, 2013:
Our 4th annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence market study has been released to enterprise licensees.
This year’s edition has 106 pages of in-depth market analysis, with 80 charts and tables and 23 vendor rankings!
Research community participants will receive their copy during the month of June. Please look for email instructions in the coming weeks.
Our thanks to everyone that participated this year!
Weekly #BIWisdom TweetChat
Recent Business Intelligence Articles
May 17nd, 2013
The Last Flip Phone Professional on Earth, Information Management
April 22nd, 2013
Cloud Business Intelligence: Topping 50 Percent Adoption by 2014, Datamation
March 25th, 2013
One on One with Howard Dresner, Dashboard Insight
February 25th, 2013
Hadoop framework breathes new life into Ancestry.com legacy tools, SearchCIO
2012 Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market Studies: Available from Amazon.com and Apple iTunes
All of our 2012 Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market Studies are now available through Amazon.com, Apple iTunes and Barnes and Noble!!
This includes the landmark Wisdom of Crowds ® Business Intelligence Market Study, Wisdom of Crowds ® Cloud BI Market Study and Wisdom of Crowds ® Collaborative BI Market Study.
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