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Blogs and Wikis as BI Tools

Business Intelligence tools help individuals gain insight through the presentation and visualization of information. That insight, though, is often achieved as a result of a process of reviewing reports, drilling into and through different performance metrics, and some good ol' fashioned noodling. How do you capture the process you went through to reach some conclusion so that you can recreate the thought process for others?

In a recent networking meeting, I was asked whether I thought blogs and/or wikis would be good platforms for capturing those thought processes. The idea appeals to me - anyone out there have any experience with doing this?

  Posted by David Loshin on December 7, 2005 3:25 PM |

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David,

I've got experience with this, contact me off line, I'd be glad to share off the record.

Cheers,
Dan L
Have you seen my blog lately?
http://www.MyersHolum.com

Posted by: Dan Linstedt | December 8, 2005 12:04 PM

I think it would be difficult to keep up the volume of writing. Blogs and wikis need to cast a very wide net to get the required number of readers and contributors and you may not find enough people in the standard work place. It requires a passion for the subject matter and for collaboration to keep contributing.

The people with the most valuable thought processes are the inhouse gurus who feel they don't have time to spare to learn and keep up with a new form of collaboration, though they would probably find more time on their hands if they didn't have to keep repeating the same things to different people.

I also think wikis and blogs are a bit more time consuming on the graphics and diagrams compared to traditional office documentation.

Posted by: Vincent McBurney | December 13, 2005 2:46 AM

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