Business Continuity and Intelligence From the Other Side of the Pond
I’m in England (outside of London in Hampshire) for Intel’s Enterprise Board of Advisors (EBOA). This is an annual event where we meet with key end user customers to get their perspectives on current...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence Breakout Sessions: From Real Time BI to Social
I just returned from my European trip and wanted to summarize some of the key customer feedback that I received from a breakout session on BI and Analytics. I need to preserve the identity of the...
View ArticleMy Week at Oracle Open World Informed – Amused, and Exhausted
Places to go, people to see, things to do! https://youtu.be/S_kfzAwmrtY If Oracle Open World didn’t provide at least 3-4 enticing options for each and every waking hour, then it either failed to...
View ArticleIBM’s Information on Demand Conference – What happens in Vegas can come home...
Conference season isn’t over yet, and I’m getting ready to leave for Las Vegas and IBM’s annual Software conference (IOD). I expect at least 10,000 people; it will be the first coming out party for...
View ArticleBI Does Not Guarantee Better Decisions, Only Better-Informed Decisions
In my blog, What is Business Intelligence? (BI), I talked about faster, better-informed decision making. I want to expand on these two key pieces. What does it mean when we say “faster” decision...
View ArticleAnalytics – Delivering insights worth millions
In my last insight into the Intel IT Business Review I am looking at the impact of one of the BIGGEST trends in business IT, Big Data or as I prefer to use, Analytics. In an age when organizations such...
View ArticleUse Data To Support Arguments, Not Arguments To Support Data
The concept of “better-informed” decisions is distinctly different than the concept of “better” decisions— the former is generally a choice, whereas the latter often results from an action....
View ArticleA Bucket of Wings: A Case Study of Better-Informed Decisions
In my blog Use Data To Support Arguments, Not Arguments To Support Data, I articulated how better-informed decisions are typically made and the role that business intelligence (BI) should play. Shortly...
View Article10 Questions to Develop Your Mobile BI Strategy
In my post “Mobile BI” Doesn’t Mean “Mobile-Enabled Reports” I articulated the importance of developing a mobile BI strategy. If designed, implemented, and executed effectively, mobile BI will not only...
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Security
Do you have all three layers of mobile BI security covered: device, app, and data? All of the convenience and benefits of mobile devices provide a particular security risk, complicating matters for the...
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Enterprise Mobility
Is your mobile business intelligence (BI) strategy aligned with your organization’s enterprise mobility strategy? If you’re not sure what this means, you’re in big trouble. In its simplest form,...
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Technology Infrastructure
When an organization is considering implementing a mobile BI strategy , it needs to ask/consider if its current information technology (IT) and business intelligence (BI) infrastructure can support...
View Article10 Mobile BI Strategy Questions: Design
When the term design is used in mobile business intelligence (BI), it often refers to the user interface (UI). However, when I consider the question of design in developing a mobile BI strategy, I go...
View ArticleEnabling data analytics success with optimized machine learning tools
Last year I read an article in which Hadoop co-developers Mike Cafarella and Doug Cutting explained how they originally set out to build an open-source search engine. They saw it as serving a specific...
View ArticlePushing Machine Learning to a New Level with Intel Xeon and Intel Xeon Phi...
Traditionally, there has been a balance of intelligence between computers and humans where all forms of number crunching and bit manipulations are left to computers, and the intelligent decision-making...
View ArticlePutting Data to Work Using Self-Service Integrated Analytics
I’ve been creating business intelligence (BI) solutions and platforms at Intel for 16 years – and I’m as excited about our most recent BI analytics project as I’ve been about any project we’ve ever...
View ArticleData Cleansing, Data Lakes, and Business Intelligence at IT@Intel
My previous posts on how big data and business intelligence can add value have talked about Intel IT groups’ other than my own. With this blog, I discuss big data, business intelligence, and data...
View ArticleWhat Is Design Thinking?
Customer-centric design is about looking out from the inside—rather than outside in. Today’s organizations face multifaceted problems that are part of increasingly complex business models. Continued...
View ArticleSuccessful Mobile Analytics Solutions Demand A Mobile Mindset
When we design for mobile analytics solutions, we are not just building a report or a dashboard. We’re designing to deliver a superior mobile user experience each and every time. This means we need to...
View ArticleBuilding Mobile Analytics Solutions With Design Thinking
When we design for mobile analytics, we need to apply the mobile mindset to all facets of user interactions, not just what we do when we are online but also what we do offline. In my first blog of the...
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