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On Thanksgiving, Freedom for Some, Fear for Foreigners
11.26.2008
blog author
Cindi Howson
I hope you will excuse a departure from my BI-focused blogs to a more personal one, but on this Thanksgiving eve, I find myself thinking more about freedom and how fragile it is right now. If you are one of the many foreign-born BI product managers, software developers, or BI specialists I have met over the years, then you will want to read this story...

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Mark Smith
Information Builders Resolves Excel Hell
11.20.2008
Microsoft's prescribed antidote to "Excel Hell" won't be available until at least 2010... So why wait years to evaluate a product when there are solutions today?... Last month Information Builders released its latest product, called WebFocus InfoAssist, which brings a range of BI capabilities for business and IT for easily accessing, analyzing and publishing data across the enterprise.

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ChoicePoint Blends BPM, BAM and BI
11.13.2008
blog author
Sandy Kemsley
I attended a session at Software AG's recent Innovation World 2008 conference in which Cory Kirspel, VP of identity risk management at ChoicePoint, described how the company has created an external-facing solution using business process management, business activity monitoring and an enterprise service bus... The company found that BAM and BI were misunderstood, poorly managed and under-leveraged...

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Cindi Howson
Cool BI from TDWI in New Orleans
11.12.2008
TDWI hosted its first conference in New Orleans (post Hurricane Katrina) last week... I taught a new course at the event, the theme of which is highlighted in this week's In-Depth article, "Cool BI: Rating the Innovations."... Here's what course attendees chose as their top-three innovation investment priorities for next year.

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PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT INSIGHT

Nine Choices on the Road to BI Solution Centers
December 1, 2008
by Boris Evelson and James Kobielus, Forrester Research
Forrester Research says BI Solution Centers offer a business-governed, solutions-focused edge over BI competency centers. Here are nine key considerations you'll face when building your BISC.

Three Ways to Link Execution to Strategy
November 22, 2008
by Doug Henschen
Performance management guru David Norton tackles the challenge of aligning day-to-day decisions with big-picture strategy.

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PERFORMANCE MGMT NEWS & ANALYSIS

Panorama Taps Google Apps For Collaboration In Reporting
Panaorma is using Google Apps' spreadsheets within NovaView SharedViews to make it possible for customers and partners to share reports by simply clicking on a button.

IBM Plunges Into 'Business Event Management,' Helping Define Field
The fairly new field of complex event processing sets parameters around a software event and triggers alerts if the rules governing it are violated.

JReport Upgrade Offers Dozens Of Improvements
JReport 9 offers enhancement in three areas, performance, usability and standards support.

Microsoft Offers 0% Financing On Business Software Purchases
Zero-percent financing could become a popular incentive from software companies looking to make sales during a tough economy.

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