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11.25.11

Senior business and IT personnel gathered at the 7th Obis Omni Forum to help them better harness the power of the cloud while its sister community, The Cloud Circle, hosted its 8th Forum, yesterday (24 November).

01.26.12

Annoucements this week suggest that cloud and big data are set for a big year across Europe.

01.24.12

US analytics firm unveils location, data aggregation and workload management tools through partnership with Oracle.

12.13.11

Microsoft has added Hadoop big data services on to its Windows Azure platform.

11.29.11

The leading UK charity is set to make major costing saving by deploying new cloud platform for its BI data analytics.

11.28.11

The 7th Obis Omni Forum received great feedback from the 100 plus senior business, finance and IT personnel who attended the event last week (24 November). Here is a breakdown of the day's sessions with highlights of the key points made.

11.14.11

Leading UK law firm takes action to improve client engagement.

11.11.11

A survey and white paper released by the Actian Corportation have revealed what users want from BI tools and how this can be delivered via the cloud.

11.10.11

Venture capitalists Accel set aside big money for big data start-ups.

Events

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Your essential one-day briefing on the future of data analytics

Thursday, February 23, 2012

A half day, intimate and highly interactive event for a select group of 50 senior level business and IT decision makers and influencers to discuss the potential / current challenges, issues, pitfalls and solutions around Big Data.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

‘Developing and executing a cohesive Cloud strategy that ensures you exploit the powerful potential for business transformation’

Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Blogs

10.28.09

Business intelligence refers to skills, applications, practices, and technologies used to help a business better understand its nature. This provides views of business operations, not just current and predictive, but also historical. The bottom line is, business intelligence aims to support better decision making.
 

10.28.09

Data collection is nowadays an indispensable part of business in every industry. Virtually all companies, including the smallest ones, have their own data collection systems. An extensive set of platforms and solutions is used – from the simplest records in spreadsheets up to advanced ERP systems. Progressing globalization, increasing unpredictability of markets as well as numerous and complex relations between enterprises dramatically increased the volume of the data collected. However, its efficient and rapid acquisition also does not ensure a success.

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10.22.09

In a previous article, A more appropriate metaphor for business intelligence projects, I explained one complication of business intelligence projects. This is that the frequently applied IT metaphor of building is not very applicable to BI. Instead I suggested that BI projects had more in common with archaeological digs. I’m not going to revisit the reasons for the suitability of looking at BI this way here, take a look at the earlier piece if you need convincing, instead I’ll focus on what this means for project estimation.

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Resources

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Multimedia

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Dr Mark Whitehorn, Senior lecturer in BI at the University of Dundee dicusses the application of BI to social data, what it is, why it is important and examples of where companies are already finding it invaluable.

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James Morgan from O2 on why BI, CPM and performance optimisation are key to surviving and thriving in this volatile and uncertain economy.

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Graham Cobb from IBM Business Intelligence and Performance Management emphasises the need to ensure pervasive BI among your end-users; developing a BI and performance management culture that ensures your BI and CPM initiatives achieve expected outcomes.

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This powerpoint presentation by Jefferson Lynch at TAH aims to ensure that your data warehouse is fit for purpose in today's agile organisation; from data to information warehouse.

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MicroStrategy’s award-winning business intelligence software is now available in a convenient reporting suite, designed for departments to start building and using reports quickly and easily... and at no charge.

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Shabab Choudry V.P. of Strategic Services at Collabera gives a thorough analysis of BI through a critique of a number perspectives in these two informative parts