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Crossing the Chasm between IT and Business Teams with New Approaches to Business Intelligence

Crossing the Chasm between IT and Business Teams with New Approaches to Business Intelligence

07/20/10

For over a decade, organizations have struggled with a widening gap between IT and the business owner due to shifts in perceptions of what business intelligence was meant to be. Delivery of BI has become so complex that IT has been forced to package BI requests into very large projects to justify the overhead. IT is often undervalued; where highly skilled workers are frustrated in low-level reporting and measurement roles, while the business -– standing apart -- can’t access and analyze information fast enough to make strategic decisions. We explain a new way of thinking to make BI faster and more valuable.


Think about Design When Thinking of BI

Think about Design When Thinking of BI

07/20/10

For some time now, academics and business leaders have celebrated design thinking as the panacea for failing corporations and the secret of savvy managers. On January 5, 2009, a group of leaders from the professional organizations of design who call themselves “The American Design Communities” presented a document to the U.S. Congress called Redesigning America’s Future: 10 design policy proposals for the United States of America’s economic competitiveness & democratic governance. This is the first document of its kind in two decades. Indeed, design is gaining importance in every area.


Five Key Lessons for Converting Social Media Data into Business Intelligence

Five Key Lessons for Converting Social Media Data into Business Intelligence

06/17/10

Web data, and social media data in particular, contains a wealth of intelligence. With the right approach, enterprises can easily automate the data collection of social media data, eliminate the noise, extract the intelligence, and use it as a strategic component to business intelligence initiatives. Harvesting real-time, noise-free Web data has never been easier.