Posts Tagged ‘BI’

Getting Started…Again Back to Statistics; I restart IBM SPSS and from the startup/open dialog, locate my previously defined data file from the “Open an existing data source” list and click OK. My file opens in the data editor (just as I left it) and the Statistics Viewer shows the very first transaction “GET” (and then […]

Last time I mentioned IBM SPSS collaboration and deployment services and promised to talk more about it – so here we go: Analytical Assets Organizations positioning themselves to take full advantage of analytics will look to separate the effort of developing analytical assets and actually using them – between “creators” and “consumers”.  Generally speaking, an […]

Development management (or more traditionally “project management”) is concerned with identifying, scheduling, and tracking development workload.  I’ve started to differentiate development management from project management in line with the trend in many larger organizations who have tackled project portfolio management as a discipline. Basically, project management focuses on cost, risk, and value to the organization […]

The importance of managing requirements and workload for any development team can’t be underestimated. But about 50% of the time I find teams without a plan for capturing and managing requirements given to them by their business stakeholders. A definition: Requirements management tools manage the collection and evolution of functional (business) requirements. Generally they are […]

I am in the process of an ETL engagement with a client who is using Pentaho, an open source BI suite of products. This has made me reach out to my resources and get caught up with the open source world of BI, and especially Pentaho. 

When the topic of BI tools comes up with a client, the conversation inevitably starts with either the BI delivery tool or the ETL tool…maybe the DBMS.  But unless there are serious issues in these core platforms, I generally find that the real gaps are in one of the other, “forgotten” tool classes. Here’s the […]

Guideposts An intelligent, data driven digital dashboard might be described as a corporate guidepost providing insight for an ongoing journey towards profitability. An interesting comparison might be found in the form of ancient store cairns found throughout many countries including Scotland, Ireland, Tibet, and the Arctic. These sculptures were often created as directional markers pointing […]

The healthcare industry is ecstatic about the opportunity to apply business intelligence (BI) to improve healthcare quality, cost and outcomes. Providers are using BI to address process issues that limit operational efficiencies. BI is “the solution” to successfully overcoming short-comings and creating provider bottom-line benefits, patient time and efficiency benefits and overall social equity. IBM […]

Baseline Magazine has an article about the four fastest growing areas of IT.  They don’t say much about the trends but I’m not surprised by what I see and obviously about where an enterprising person can attain some career advancement…………                   Keep an eye out on Baseline […]

I wanted to share my experience with the new features of Mobile Entrée and how to leverage your existing Microsoft Business Intelligence investments as a starting point to building out the mobile platform. Mike Burger posted earlier regarding Mobile Entrée (found here). He stated the fact that it can integrate with SharePoint and render reports […]

I just happened to hear about the NoSQL Now Conference taking place at San Jose through this weekend and thought it would be interesting to explore a bit about bridging NoSQL and BI. What is NoSQL? NoSQL (‘Not Only SQL’) can be defined as the next-gen databases which differ from the traditional ones in being […]

In a previous post, I touched on the opportunity for lifestyle analytics to provide information for better care – specifically preventative care. In another post I discussed how having a healthy population benefits all of society. A recent article in the Wall Street journal, Tying Health Problems to Rise in Home Foreclosures, discusses a National […]