At the end of every year, predictions are made and trends are identified setting the tone for the upcoming year.  Within business intelligence applications there are always changes because of the advancements in technology – i.e. mobile, social media, processing speed, storage, etc. All of these items will continue to affect BI moving forward.  Aside [...]

One of the fastest growing types of BI adoption is through Software as a Service solutions.  Organizations are looking at SaaS and comparing potential solutions to other in-house options. This means that more competition exists for solution providers as in the past companies looked at one type of solution over the other.  Now, the market [...]

Sorry for the delay in posting the link to the BeyeNetwork/Actuate Webinar:
BIRT: Transforming Business Intelligence to Rich Information Applications

On Thursday November 19th at 11am PT/2pm ET I will be participating in a Webinar with Actuate. The presentation will discuss the importance of this new way of applying BI through:

an overview of traditional BI and the drivers that are shifting the way BI is applied within organizations
trends in the industry that support these [...]

Here is a link to the recording of yesterday’s beyeconnect chat that took place to discuss the costs associated with free BI:

Recorded presentation and chat

Luckily organizations can take advantage of free software offerings and get their feet wet and explore different business intelligence solutions.  However, when looking at free solutions it becomes important to remember [...]

On Monday November 9th at 12pm ET, there will be a chat hosted by BeyeConnect regarding the real cost of free BI. I will be conducting a brief presentation based on the fact that:

Many BI vendors offer free trials of their software and some even offer free versions of their offerings.  Open source provides one [...]

The topic of TCO is always one that generates a lot of discussion within companies.  When dealing with mid-market companies specifically, it can be even harder to evaluate overall TCO for BI.  Aside from fixed expenses such as software costs, maintenance, support, licensing, and potential hardware requirements, organizations also face a lot of unknowns. What [...]

Earlier this week, Endeca (a search provider) made two announcements relevant to BI:

A partnership with Informatica that lets Endeca customers access and use standardized data integration functionality, and
the integration of Xcelsius dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects intelligence search within Endeca’s current platform.

The traditional way of looking at BI and search involves the use of search within [...]

After a couple of weeks on the road, I just arrived back from Teradata Partners last night.  My overall impressions were very positive about the event and about some of the initiatives that we’ll see from them in the coming months.
However, while being away I wasn’t properly able to advocate for the family pet…and he [...]

This week I am attending Teradata Partners in DC (well, more adequately National Harbor, MD).  This morning the keynote featured Don Tapscott – author (Wikinomics as one example) and visionary on information technology and the information age in general. His talk centered around the changing workforce, collaboration, and how new grads and entrants to the [...]