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There are plenty of parallels between business intelligence (BI) and enterprise content management (ECM). For starters, the leading vendors in both markets (in terms of software revenue) were snatched up by the technology giants, yet plenty of best-of-breed players, upstarts and open source ...
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We've all encountered the promise of 360-degree customer views, marketing-speak that asserts that BI solution X, Customer Relationship management (CRM) solution Y, or Sales Force Automation (SFA) solution Z considers customer information from all angles with the implication that (everyone ...
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I wrote recently on Text Data Quality , looking at issues that arise in working with textual information that affect analytical accuracy. I wrote, "The basic text data quality issue is that humans make mistakes, and the challenge is that people's natural-language mistakes defy easy, automated ...
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Data warehouse appliance and software appliance vendors like to claim that they've worked out just the right hardware configuration(s), and that a single configuration is correct for a fairly broad range of workloads. But there are a lot of reasons to be dubious about that. Specific vendor ...
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With much fanfare, the Google Chrome OS launched last week . Chrome OS is a Web operating system that boots quickly, right into a browser. In other words, it's your existing laptop with everything but the browser removed.
We've actually been here before. Perhaps you remember the Network ...
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I hadn't even had my first cup of coffee yesterday when this press release caught my attention.
SAP announced that Microsoft supports SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC, formerly known as OutlookSoft) as a preferred solution and are identifying joint marketing initiatives.
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I was in NYC at TechWeb's Interop event today and I just happened to run into Harvey Spencer , an old friend from my days as editor-in-chief of Transform Magazine. Until it was folded into Intelligent Enterprise way back in late 2004, Transform focused on enterprise content management (ECM) and ...
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My colleagues Tony Byrne and Shawn Shell (the lead analysts for CMS Watch SharePoint Research ) recently reported on the hysteria generated around product announcements for SharePoint 2010 earlier this month in Las Vegas. There is plenty to be excited about in SP2010, especially if you belong ...
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Complex event processing (CEP) is the next big thing in data integration. At least that's the game plan at Microsoft and Informatica. Given that IBM and Oracle also have CEP available on their technology toolbelts, there's little doubt that success will breed more adaptations of CEP for ...
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BI for the Masses is overused marketing-speak meant to suggest that Vendor X's break-out Product Y is going to enable/deliver business intelligence beyond the 15%-20% of knowledge workers who currently do BI. (I got that estimate from a chat with industry veteran Dave Wells, who says the figure ...
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Enterprises are facing something of a recruitment dilemma at the moment; one HR professional at a major healthcare firm told me this week that enterprise content management ( ECM )-skilled applicants are looking for approximately 40% more in base pay than their peers with a background in CRM or ...
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It's been a long, slow process, but I am pleased to say BI Scorecard has begun adding open source BI to its product evaluations! I actually blogged on this topic a few weeks ago, when Pentaho announced the acquisition of Lucid Era OLAP viewing technology, but editor Doug Henschen wanted more ...
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The (excellent) Enterprise 2.0 Conference concluded last week in San Francisco. Here are some thoughts on several of the key issues bandied about, including ROI, adoption, usability, SharePoint, and the evolving industry.
My first observation is that the conference vibe was much more ...
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McAfee
Today Informatica released version 9 of its flagship data integration suite, which it calls as the "single most important release" in its history. Informatica 9 undoubtedly packs quite a punch, yet I'm not satisfied.
First, let us give Informatica its due credit. To quote the company, ...
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At last week's Business Rules Forum , I attended James Taylor's keynote on the role of decision management in agile, smarter systems. Much of this is based on the book he co-authored with Neil Raden, Smart (Enough) Systems , which I reviewed shortly after its release .
Our systems need to be ...
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A startup called SnapLogic is poised to challenge incumbent Informatica with an approach that seems to combine data integration -- Informatica's forté -- with online app stores (think Apple). Things are poised to get interesting.
The idea behind the SnapStore, now thrown open for a 100-day ...
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Apple
I'm just back from sunny, warm Florida, venue for TDWI's conference. The brightest spot from this conference is that it was one of the best attended of the year. I hope it's a sign of recovery, at least in the BI world!
I had the honor of delivering the keynote on Monday, with new findings on ...
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The Business Rules Forum has started here in Las Vegas, and I'm here all week giving a presentation in the BPM track, facilitating a workshop and sitting on a panel. James Taylor and Eric Charpentier are also here presenting and blogging, with a focus more purely on rules and decision ...
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You heard about Microsoft's Kilimanjaro and Madison projects last year, but these code names are going away now that the company is getting closer to releasing new versions of Microsoft SQL Server. Microsoft announced today that a community technical preview (CTP) of SQL Server 2008 R2 will be ...
