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  • A post full of business analytics updates

    Here are a few updates, news and noteworthy links for this week. New book about Performance Management Make sure to check out the latest book about Performance Management written by Steve Player and the late Jeremy Hope. It’s called Beyond Performance Management: Why, When, and How to Use 40 Tools and Best Practices for Superior Business…

  • Contribute to the “2012 Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study”

    Dear readers of this blog, I’d like to personally encourage you to contribute to Howard Dresner’s annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study. Howard is a veteran of the BI industry and his studies provide valuable insights for all business intelligence professionals. The great news is that all participating customers will receive a complementary…

  • The Evolution of Social Business Intelligence – Guest Post

    Guest Post This mission of this blog is to share ideas about business analytics. One of the things I want to increasingly do this year is to feature more guest bloggers and do more interviews. A few months ago, I came across Sanjay Shetty’s unique blog Communities R Us. His approach to blogging about social…

  • SUCCEED Magazine- An article about Business Analytics

    SUCCEED Magazine About six months ago, I had the honor to write a short article for the business magazine SUCCEED which is distributed via Austrian Airlines. Succeed is actually one of the frequent flier magazines that I love reading. There is a ton of valuable business content in there. The purpose of the bilingual post…

  • Visualize This! A book review

    Visualize this! Visualization of data is one of the hottest topics these days. No matter where I go, people are taking a huge interest in it. Infographics are floating the Internet, for example. Companies are looking to refine their dashboards with better visuals. This was also apparent at the Gartner BI Summit earlier this week.…

  • The Gartner BI Summit 2012 – A great event

    Gartner BI Summit 2012 Wow. I cannot believe it. The Gartner BI Summit 2012 is already over. The event raced by like a bullet train at full speed. Time flies when you are having fun. Last Wednesday, I sat down with the conference agenda and developed a nice plan. I had grand visions of collecting…

  • See you at the Gartner BI Summit next week

    Gartner BI Summit Time flies when you are having fun. I just realized that the Gartner EMEA BI Summit is just around the corner. It is scheduled to kick off in London next Monday, February 6th. The Gartner BI Summits are always a true highlight. I love the focus of the event, the variety of…

  • Stacked bar charts? Mixed feelings!

    Stacked Bar Charts Part-to-whole analysis is a common task in business. Let’s say we want to analyze how much different product groups contribute towards total revenue. Or we want to analyze our cost across different cost element groups. One way to do this visually is to leverage waterfall or pareto charts. Another popular option is to…

  • Spotlight on Forecast Accuracy

    Forecast accuracy in turbulent times Forecast accuracy is one of those measures many finance professionals think and talk about. Turbulent times require companies to produce reliable and solid forecasts. Accuracy is a useful measure that helps finance managers assess the quality of the process (to a certain degree!). In late 2011, my good colleagues Mark,…

  • 7 reasons to register for the IBM Innovations in Business Analytics Launch

    The launch…. Finally! The wait is over! Mark your calendars and register for the March 7th special IBM Business Analytics event. A bunch of really cool & innovative stuff will be revealed. And let me tell you: If you are interested in Business Analytics, you do not want to miss this product launch! Over the…

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