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Interactive Dashboards: US.Gov Aces, Wimbledon Double Faults
07. 2.2009
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07. 1.2009 Given that BI thought leaders are wrestling with the notion of events, perhaps we will see a BI-mainstreaming of event processing in the not-too-distant future. Interest in streams and events has definitely picked up in the last few months, and next year could very well be the break-out year for BI on data and event streams. Read more from Seth Grimes >> Mulling the Mystery of Microsoft's BI Market Share 07. 1.2009
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06.30.2009 When a BI vendor claims they are the market leader of anything, according to IDC, you need to be clear on what exactly gets counted. In other words, study the taxonomy on page three of IDC's latest report... Read more from Cindi Howson >> Bucking the Cloud Computing Hype 06.29.2009
If you push back on cloud computing, even for good reasons, then you're considered a backward thinker. If you go along with the trends and the hype, and your systems hit a cloud computing-enabled wall, then you're considered incompetent. I'm not sure which path is better. Read more from David Linthicum >>
06.26.2009 Visualization guru Stephen Few reminds us that analyst opinions, while offered by recognized experts, are inherently personal, and that on the other side of the table, there are real people behind products, marketing campaigns, and corporate decisions. But I disagree with Steve that analysts should always name names. Some situations become simply too personal... Read more from Seth Grimes >>
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 Information Builders topped the list of seven vendors that agreed to participate in the study with a value index of 93%, followed by IBM Cognos Software, Infor, Softscape, Arcplan, Actuate, Symphony-Metreo, Microsoft and InetSoft, respectively. More >
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