Most Active Articles 2009-11-24T04:12:54.111-05:00 Business Exchange Business_Exchange@businessweek.com urn:com:businessweek:bx:topic:most-active:business-intelligence Bala Udayakumar budayakumar601 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:3232172643340364201-a27c2b427f2832aa975698174b6a0e9e 2009-11-21T03:58:07.774-05:00

At the 2009 Americas Summit in San Francisco, I had the distinct pleasure of joining Drs. Kaplan and Norton on the Strategy Leaders Roundtable to close out the conference.

At the 2009 Americas Summit in San Francisco, I had the distinct pleasure of joining Drs. Kaplan and Norton on the Strategy Leaders Roundtable to close out the conference. http://ping.fm/Ty10x Joey Fitts jfitts101 2 1 0 1 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:4284324525204226570-786f0103541875febe0a32ff646e8feb 2009-11-20T04:16:15.393-05:00

(by Michael Cannell) Business executives love stability and the cold imperatives of logic. Ambiguity gives them fits. Designers, by contrast, can't abide the status quo. "That tension never goes away between inventing the new and preserving the old," Sam Lucente, vice president of design for Hewlett-Packard, said yesterday at a panel discussion conducted by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum during its National Design Week. "It's like navigating no man's land," he said.

(by Michael Cannell) Business executives love stability and the cold imperatives of logic. Ambiguity gives them fits. Designers, by contrast, can't abide the status quo. "That tension never goes away between inventing the new and preserving the old," Sam Lucente, vice president of design for Hewlett-Packard, said yesterday at a panel discussion conducted by the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum during its National Design Week. "It's like navigating no man's land," he said. http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/michael-cannell/cannell/management-wars-design-thinking-polarizing-force-your-office?partner=rss Itamar Medeiros imedeiros325 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:6300250691006898818-8272f598fed0391d2297658773a3b6a4 2009-11-17T10:52:30.424-05:00

We may not be able to pinpoint the precise meaning of fairness at all times and all places for all people. But by better understanding the reference points that anchor buying and selling decisions in the micromarket we have an improved chance of achieving results that are both fair and profitable.

We may not be able to pinpoint the precise meaning of fairness at all times and all places for all people. But by better understanding the reference points that anchor buying and selling decisions in the micromarket we have an improved chance of achieving results that are both fair and profitable. http://blog.sentrana.com/2009/11/16/a-beer-on-the-beach-and-other-mysteries-of-fair-pricing/ Joe Smiley jsmiley701 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:17208394590723907573-ffad818703618f733ab40f68671be418 2009-11-14T02:07:35.846-05:00

Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their strategies by making better decisions, today named five top-performing organizations to the Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy™: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (USA), Grupo Acir (Mexico), Megasalud (Chile), Millipore Corporation (USA), and Volkswagen do Brasil (Brazil). The award recipients were honored for their breakthrough business results during today’s Hall of Fame award presentation ceremony at the 2009 Palladium Americas Summit in San Francisco, California.

Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their strategies by making better decisions, today named five top-performing organizations to the Palladium Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame for Executing Strategy™: The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (USA), Grupo Acir (Mexico), Megasalud (Chile), Millipore Corporation (USA), and Volkswagen do Brasil (Brazil). The award recipients were honored for their breakthrough business results during today’s Hall of Fame award presentation ceremony at the 2009 Palladium Americas Summit in San Francisco, California. http://www.thepalladiumgroup.com/KnowledgeObjectRepository/PR_Americas2009HallofFameWinners_11_11_09.pdf Joey Fitts jfitts101 3 2 0 1 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:10903673824180683973-1f4c9fa800b600d61092fc9404d5d913 2009-11-15T21:03:09.893-05:00

Executives who lack intuition and don't know their customers sustain themselves with analytics and statistics, a shield for cowardice.

Executives who lack intuition and don't know their customers sustain themselves with analytics and statistics, a shield for cowardice. http://media-proinc.com/ribblog/analytics-are-for-cowards/ John Ribbler jribbler704 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:11405675937995711535-92111754c5efc23666a489ecd6a4a70a 2009-10-19T12:48:27.832-04:00

It’s a highly competitive market that’s largely dominated by major software companies that have acquired BI vendors and added their capabilities to existing product suites. Here are the top six vendors by revenue and market share. Together they represent more than 80 percent of the current BI market.

It’s a highly competitive market that’s largely dominated by major software companies that have acquired BI vendors and added their capabilities to existing product suites. Here are the top six vendors by revenue and market share. Together they represent more than 80 percent of the current BI market. http://information-security-resources.com/2009/10/19/top-six-vendors-for-business-intelligence/ Anthony M. Freed afreed536 21 20 0 1 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:16330890421972831152-781cd9fad9b322603daf3f42e6615538 2009-11-01T18:20:04.995-05:00

IBM announced at IBM Information on Demand conference a new version (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28697.wss) of IBM Mashup Center (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/info/mashup-center/) that will simplify the assembly and publishing of information across a workforce and across the Internet for consumers, constituents and customers. This IBM Software wide product that is designed to enable business and IT to work together in the harvesting of information across the enterprise including content, documents, reports and integrate capabilities that can help individuals interact with the information but also information and services across the Internet. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3347

IBM announced at IBM Information on Demand conference a new version (http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28697.wss) of IBM Mashup Center (http://www-01.ibm.com/software/info/mashup-center/) that will simplify the assembly and publishing of information across a workforce and across the Internet for consumers, constituents and customers. This IBM Software wide product that is designed to enable business and IT to work together in the harvesting of information across the enterprise including content, documents, reports and integrate capabilities that can help individuals interact with the information but also information and services across the Internet. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3347 http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3347 Ventana Research vresearch293 8 8 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:7914157078722704785-1d897633796c19ff02276225c823ad9d 2009-11-04T23:48:28.279-05:00

Palladium Group Announces Advisory Board for the Palladium Execution Premium Community Experts Help Shape Global Strategy Management Movement BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their...

Palladium Group Announces Advisory Board for the Palladium Execution Premium Community Experts Help Shape Global Strategy Management Movement BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their... http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20091027005324&newsLang=en Joey Fitts jfitts101 2 1 0 1 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:16330890421941859426-9d20075b5576b3265a210a438e15a243 2009-10-30T10:43:59.261-04:00

IBM general manager of analytics and performance management Rob Ashe keynoted and provided deeper focus on the advancing set of technology and solutions for business at IBM Information on Demand conference. This builds on a larger agenda of IBM on information led business efforts (See: “IBM Doubles Down Again on Information Agenda at Annual Conference”) (and significant news building on the recent dedicated IBM Cognos conference in May (See: “IBM and Cognos Software – Advancement but No News at Forum” . Of course the IBM recent acquisition of predictive analytics provider SPSS (See: “IBM Boldly Elevates Analytics with Acquisition of SPSS”) expands the BI and Performance Management portfolio significantly.

IBM general manager of analytics and performance management Rob Ashe keynoted and provided deeper focus on the advancing set of technology and solutions for business at IBM Information on Demand conference. This builds on a larger agenda of IBM on information led business efforts (See: “IBM Doubles Down Again on Information Agenda at Annual Conference”) (and significant news building on the recent dedicated IBM Cognos conference in May (See: “IBM and Cognos Software – Advancement but No News at Forum” . Of course the IBM recent acquisition of predictive analytics provider SPSS (See: “IBM Boldly Elevates Analytics with Acquisition of SPSS”) expands the BI and Performance Management portfolio significantly. http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3345 Mark Smith msmith670 2 2 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:12621018927897253560-1a9e4de4866b3a8ad8defebde7c04c2c 2009-10-29T14:25:03.926-04:00

Experts Help Shape Global Strategy Management Movement BOSTON--(Business Wire)-- Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their strategies by making better decisions, is pleased to announce the formation of an...

Experts Help Shape Global Strategy Management Movement BOSTON--(Business Wire)-- Palladium Group, Inc., the global leader in helping organizations execute their strategies by making better decisions, is pleased to announce the formation of an... http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS143414+27-Oct-2009+BW20091027 Joey Fitts jfitts101 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:7020327290868035234-78e9e377cee48ed727b3a423360eb77f 2009-10-05T17:31:00.000-04:00

The combination of SAP and Business Objects could realize synergies as a complete and optimized BI platform and enterprise applications stack with

The combination of SAP and Business Objects could realize synergies as a complete and optimized BI platform and enterprise applications stack with http://www.gartner.com/it/products/research/asset_129487_2395.jsp/1189399 16 16 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:54641950968039428-85516a541ebaab75c7d0ce8c746b44a6 2009-09-29T13:04:44.326-04:00

One of the best uses of social media for business is being able to monitor your brand. Services like Twitter search and Facebook search make it easy to see each time someone mentions your company, while third-party applications like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop allow you to get real-time updates pushed to your desktop and instantly reply. But what if you want to proactively get feedback about your business, new product ideas, marketing campaigns, or other issues relating to your company?

One of the best uses of social media for business is being able to monitor your brand. Services like Twitter search and Facebook search make it easy to see each time someone mentions your company, while third-party applications like TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop allow you to get real-time updates pushed to your desktop and instantly reply. But what if you want to proactively get feedback about your business, new product ideas, marketing campaigns, or other issues relating to your company? http://mashable.com/2009/09/28/social-media-feedback/ Jesse Kedy jkedy401 5 4 0 1 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:4162517038125515227-67b0be8c8ce0dbb1cd9013929344c97f 2009-10-14T00:57:57.705-04:00

Ratio Analysis- Why So Important for Business Strategic Planning Ratio Analysis is one of the basic tools of financial analysis. And it is a fact that financial analysis itself plays an important role in the progress of business strategic planning.

Ratio Analysis- Why So Important for Business Strategic Planning Ratio Analysis is one of the basic tools of financial analysis. And it is a fact that financial analysis itself plays an important role in the progress of business strategic planning. http://www.fintel.us/blog/?p=47 Robert Robert rrobert592 2 2 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:16330650609973518794-47d31e910844a8c84ec480032c8b4252 2009-10-15T02:59:09.530-04:00

The infamous Larry Ellison did his annual mid-week keynote at Oracle OpenWorld where he delivered his personal passion for new Oracle technology advancements that went beyond his Sunday night appearance with Scott McNealy from Sun Microsystems (See: “Oracle OpenWorld Sunday Night Opener Highlights Technology Game”).

The infamous Larry Ellison did his annual mid-week keynote at Oracle OpenWorld where he delivered his personal passion for new Oracle technology advancements that went beyond his Sunday night appearance with Scott McNealy from Sun Microsystems (See: “Oracle OpenWorld Sunday Night Opener Highlights Technology Game”). http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3334 Mark Smith msmith670 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:4294180593864230356-ed637d18e2e6727d08c4b803d24b3641 2009-09-17T22:56:14.685-04:00

Did you think the economic crisis of the last 18 months was going to pass without impacting the geospatial marketplace? Was there some element of naiveté that perhaps led us to expect that geospatial would be left unscathed by such disruptive financial upheaval, and that somehow growth would continue unabated?

Did you think the economic crisis of the last 18 months was going to pass without impacting the geospatial marketplace? Was there some element of naiveté that perhaps led us to expect that geospatial would be left unscathed by such disruptive financial upheaval, and that somehow growth would continue unabated? http://www.directionsmag.com/article.php?article_id=3277 Ventana Research vresearch293 4 4 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:6316939324632287188-4325048a03e0467e29214a91224e303b 2009-08-07T02:57:11.307-04:00

"Would like to say I believe your product is outstanding." Larry Heller (Business Coach) "This will become part of our business planning; it just saved me weeks of work!" Rick Haig (Business owner) FINTEL is a leading provider of data services and...

"Would like to say I believe your product is outstanding." Larry Heller (Business Coach) "This will become part of our business planning; it just saved me weeks of work!" Rick Haig (Business owner) FINTEL is a leading provider of data services and... http://www.fintel.us/aboutFintel/AtaGlance.html Robert Robert rrobert592 8 7 1 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:16019854031784840635-a5b9f057cb6e463cf3c4b711c0e30d33 2009-09-22T13:09:13.211-04:00

A data warehouse project manager’s job is beset with worst practice traps just waiting for the unwary project manager to fail. You don’t have to fall prey to these traps. Take a look at these ten worst practices to recognize and avoid these methods...

A data warehouse project manager’s job is beset with worst practice traps just waiting for the unwary project manager to fail. You don’t have to fall prey to these traps. Take a look at these ten worst practices to recognize and avoid these methods... http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/docs/DOC-1622 Patrick Avery pavery324 4 4 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:16329931174099468624-d31cd6ebcd1077035569915f2ebfe572 2009-09-22T10:18:14.131-04:00

The soft underbelly of the business intelligence (BI) software market has traditionally been the midmarket, which Ventana Research defines as organizations with between 100 and 999 employees. These medium sized businesses have been reluctant to devote budget to BI primarily because they typically lack the IT resources and budget along with the patience to develop and configure the moving parts required to deploy BI and its supporting data infrastructure. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3303

The soft underbelly of the business intelligence (BI) software market has traditionally been the midmarket, which Ventana Research defines as organizations with between 100 and 999 employees. These medium sized businesses have been reluctant to devote budget to BI primarily because they typically lack the IT resources and budget along with the patience to develop and configure the moving parts required to deploy BI and its supporting data infrastructure. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3303 http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3303 Ventana Research vresearch293 4 4 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:7189013584551301360-6311f9bbc6e501fd47068f0d1211a9f6 2009-09-09T10:50:15.444-04:00

Informatica Corporation has completed the acquisition of Agent Logic, a complex event processing software provider in a transaction that closed Wednesday.

Informatica Corporation has completed the acquisition of Agent Logic, a complex event processing software provider in a transaction that closed Wednesday. http://bit.ly/4ebQgw Ventana Research vresearch293 1 0 1 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:10432360813946036808-9f587b3feb1625e95afc0b4f5d60d360 2009-09-04T20:42:38.552-04:00

Informatica announced their acquisition (http://www.informatica.com/news_events/Pages/agent_logic.aspx) of Agent Logic (http://www.agentlogic.com) who is a provider of what is called Operational Intelligence and a technology category (http://www.ventanaresearch.com/researchCategory/OperationalIntelligence.html) that uses events to provide insight to the operations and activities of organizations as I have previously written (http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=2895). Agent Logic had been working hard to empower business to have the real time insight and information that has been intelligently processed in their product to help individuals to be responsive. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3284

Informatica announced their acquisition (http://www.informatica.com/news_events/Pages/agent_logic.aspx) of Agent Logic (http://www.agentlogic.com) who is a provider of what is called Operational Intelligence and a technology category (http://www.ventanaresearch.com/researchCategory/OperationalIntelligence.html) that uses events to provide insight to the operations and activities of organizations as I have previously written (http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=2895). Agent Logic had been working hard to empower business to have the real time insight and information that has been intelligently processed in their product to help individuals to be responsive. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3284 http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3284 Ventana Research vresearch293 2 2 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:11720882959798835078-84ef22c053b08095a5e9e22dae0983a0 2009-09-21T04:14:35.422-04:00

Police collab w/ researchers to reduce crime in Cinci. Culture critical: Police must be open to it, researchers need personal skills http://ping.fm/UxfO4 www.cultureofperformance.com www.joeyfitts.com

Police collab w/ researchers to reduce crime in Cinci. Culture critical: Police must be open to it, researchers need personal skills http://ping.fm/UxfO4 www.cultureofperformance.com www.joeyfitts.com http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112847746 Joey Fitts jfitts101 1 1 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:16329931174053011035-183cb9c9694f0170070e461eff35a76d 2009-09-17T22:33:29.601-04:00

The growing volumes of data from the Internet and enterprise places pressure to gain better insights on a more frequent basis continues to be a demanding issue for business and IT. The need to process this data for analytic purposes has over the last couple of decades gotten more complicated than simpler as most of the database technologies have continued to upgrade and layer more overhead to deal with this issues. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3300

The growing volumes of data from the Internet and enterprise places pressure to gain better insights on a more frequent basis continues to be a demanding issue for business and IT. The need to process this data for analytic purposes has over the last couple of decades gotten more complicated than simpler as most of the database technologies have continued to upgrade and layer more overhead to deal with this issues. Read more at http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3300 http://www.ventanaresearch.com/blog/commentblog.aspx?id=3300 Ventana Research vresearch293 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:18441785757464442810-ed3e8a645d68a5e6f6b54f6960c0a037 2009-09-17T22:26:42.922-04:00

Sybase, Inc., and Verizon announced they are teaming up to enable multinational companies to effectively manage the deployment and ongoing support of their growing mobile workforce.

Sybase, Inc., and Verizon announced they are teaming up to enable multinational companies to effectively manage the deployment and ongoing support of their growing mobile workforce. http://www.information-management.com/news/mobility_Sybase_Verizon-10016069-1.html Ventana Research vresearch293 0 0 0 0 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:213892793896571112-af02c5ebc014d62076adab53655ad25c 2009-08-15T16:21:46.925-04:00

Consider the treasure troves of data found inside companies' enterprise systems: ERP, CRM, BI and supply chain applications. But the global recession has made it a tough time to get boards to pony up blank checks for large and exploratory projects to unlock those potential data stores. A new Aberdeen Group report, however, points out a paradox: While the struggling economy has forced businesses to attempt to cut costs and "do more with less," by leaving this data largely untapped, companies instead run the risk of "more is less."

Consider the treasure troves of data found inside companies' enterprise systems: ERP, CRM, BI and supply chain applications. But the global recession has made it a tough time to get boards to pony up blank checks for large and exploratory projects to unlock those potential data stores. A new Aberdeen Group report, however, points out a paradox: While the struggling economy has forced businesses to attempt to cut costs and "do more with less," by leaving this data largely untapped, companies instead run the risk of "more is less." http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9136247/ERP_BI_Match_Made_in_Heaven_If_You_re_in_Data_Hell?taxonomyId=9 Jacques Surveyer jsurveyer123 4 3 0 1 urn:com:businessweek:bx:article:9074214230467324268-c5438b8d41aa057918e35715c172eeec 2009-08-19T15:01:43.504-04:00

You're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you’ve heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that...

You're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you’ve heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that... http://bit.ly/XNPFH Patrick Avery pavery324 4 4 0 0