May 10, 2012 9:03 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
Competitive advantage,
IT budgets,
IT security,
mobile apps,
mobile devices,
mobile middleware,
Mobile spendingCall it the triumph of consumerism, or just common sense. Mobile computing is on fire in the enterprise -- apps, middleware, tablets -- and the proof is in the pesos, pounds, the...
April 6, 2012 12:27 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Algorithms,
Analytics Technology,
Business Intelligence,
Business Intelligence Summit,
CIO,
GartnerI am back from Gartner's Business Intelligence Summit in La La Land, trailing visions of nice light and lollipop palm trees. And of real-life analytics technology...
March 21, 2012 5:55 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
Big Data,
big data analytics,
Business Intelligence,
business intelligence tools,
data qualityData quality is still the bane of the business intelligence (BI) environment. Or so I was told by two consultants I interviewed for an upcoming BI ezine. Even when everyone agrees the data is...
March 7, 2012 7:35 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
mobile devices,
rogue IT,
self-service,
self-service BI,
shadow ITSelf-service business intelligence (BI) is the latest development in what can only be described as the user empowerment movement. We saw it with the cloud, and...
February 24, 2012 10:08 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
CIO leadership,
data analytics,
mobile devicesIt was a short week for some, but there was no shortage of intriguing news and opinions to sort through. We've rounded up a handful of items to share with you on this Friday, including one of many takes on Target's "maternal instincts," websites that don't need searching and a forthcoming...
February 21, 2012 5:07 PM
Posted by: Christina Torode
Business Intelligence,
business management systems,
CIO,
CIO role,
data management,
mission critical systemsLeadership training -- in particular, the shaping of future CIOs -- was the topic, but as with many conversations about the
February 7, 2012 7:41 PM
Posted by: Linda Tucci
BI,
Big Data,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
data analyticsIs big data dead already? I guess that depends on how you define it. If you're analyst Mark McDonald, a VP and fellow at Gartner Inc., and you equate big data...
February 2, 2012 7:47 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud computing,
SaaS BIIn writing for the Web, as in movies, sometimes there are choice bits that don't make the final cut. (That's why DVDs include extras, and blogs are, well, blogs.) Here is some food for thought from Gartner analyst James Richardson that didn't make it into a recent story about the growing interest...
January 26, 2012 10:06 PM
Posted by: Karen Goulart
BI SaaS,
Business Intelligence,
business intelligence tools,
CIO,
cloud BI,
Cloud computing,
SaaSCoincidence? Or a truly topically in-tune editor? I'll go with the latter. On the same day I was assigned a story on the place of cloud-based business intelligence (BI) in the enterprise, Gartner Inc. released a telling study on the subject -- and I learned that cloud consulting firm...
