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I read an article recently titled "Dashboards: The Key to Breaking the Dependency on BI" by Steve Ricketts. In it, he claims that you don't need to build data warehouses -- they are complex and hard to implement. All you really need is a dashboard to present "vital information in an at-a-glance graphical format..."

Oh puleeeeaaassse - spare me from this overly naive, simplistic and unfortunately erroneous piffle.

Here it is -- the long awaited weird news stories for November (OK I do have too much time on my hands). And there are some doozies in here. I hope you enjoy them...

Have a good Thanksgiving Holiday! I will be back blogging the week of November 28th.

Ford Motor Company recently announced that it will soon offer a complete wireless office in its F-series pickup truck. I am not kidding...

And what does this baby come with? Read on.

Computer Associates has had a very troubled year - an accounting scandal that took out most of the company's management team as a starter. I guess they believe that the new name will help them get over the past...