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Intelligent Enterprise Contributor: Neil Raden

Neil Raden is a consultant and analyst and a partner and co-founder of Smart (enough) Systems LLC, a research and advisory firm specializing in analytics, business Intelligence and decision management. He is also the co-author of the book "Smart (Enough) Systems." Write him at neil@smartenoughsystems.com.

Recent Articles By Neil Raden
Business Intelligence 2.0: Simpler, More Accessible, Inevitable
Say goodbye to complicated interfaces, disconnected analytics and shelfware. An emerging era for BI will bring simplicity, broad access and better ties between analysis and action.

BI Megatrends: Our 7th Annual Special Report
What are the latest directions in business intelligence? In our seventh annual report, we take a look at the major drivers impacting how you'll architect and implement BI in your organization. Could search, semantics and master data management push BI over the top?

BI Megatrends
What are the latest directions in business intelligence? In its seventh annual report, Intelligence Enterprise magazine takes a look at the major drivers impacting how you'll architect and implement BI in your organization. Could search, semantics and master data management push BI over the top?

Dashboard: Web 2.0's Effect on Business Intelligence
Web 2.0 is a murky term whose definition even its creators can't articulate. But aspects of Web 2.0 are having an impact on business intelligence that will prove to be profound in a few years.

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Blog: Competing on Decisions
by Neil Raden

MapReduce: And You Were There
There's been a lot of buzz lately about Google's MapReduce framework for speeding up the processing of large datasets. It makes you wonder, did Google just dream this up in last couple years while all of the database vendors were sleeping? Or, paraphrasing Isaac Newton, were they standing on the shoulders of giants? The answer is, both.
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08.29.2008

Requirements Gathering: Don't Be Naīve
Whenever the subject of business requirements for data warehousing and BI comes up, I try to bite my tongue because it's always at a time in the project when expectations are high and people are hopeful. I hate to rain on their parade, but this is one of those areas where best practices are often worst practices.
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07.28.2008

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•Minimizing Technology Project Delays with Digital Libraries: The Critical Path to Delivering On Time and Under Budget

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•Service Dependency Mapping: Making the Link between IT and the Business

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