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Blog: Shawn RogersJune 29, 2005FirstLogic Ranked "Positive" by GartnerGartner's MarketScope report on Data Quality Technology Vendors was recently released and FirstLogic received a “positive” rating—the highest rating given. Art Petty, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at FirstLogic had the following to say: “Through education, consulting services and progressive technology, FirstLogic helps organizations understand the importance of data as a corporate asset, as well as the success that can be achieved with data quality initiatives,” “We believe this positive rating confirms the approach FirstLogic has taken with innovative and unique offerings for this industry, including our IQ Assurance collection of services and methodologies that jumpstart data quality initiatives.” Congratulations FirstLogic!! By the way someone send me the list of winners please so I can get ahead of the curve :) June 28, 2005The future looks "Positive" for DataFluxGartner released it's MarketScope report on data quality vendors and DataFlux received a "Positive" rating in the data quality market, which encompasses capabilities such as data parsing, standardization, cleansing/scrubbing, matching, de-duplication, geocoding, verification/validation, profiling/monitoring/auditing and enrichment. "DataFlux is working with companies worldwide to transform data quality - which was once a tactical, departmental solution - into a guiding principle that allows organizations to deliver a single, unified view of their enterprise." "We are pleased that DataFlux has received a 'Positive' rating in this analysis, as we believe it reflects our company's growing momentum in the data quality and data integration marketplaces." Congratulations DataFlux! June 27, 2005The Supreme Court Rules on Peer to Peer file sharingEarlier today the Supreme court handed down its ruling on Grokster v. M.G.M., which determined that file sharing networks and the makers of the software that enable them can be held financially liable for copyright infringement. Braden Cox, Technology Counsel at the Competitive Enterprise Institute had the following to say “The Court faced a difficult decision with Grokster, both because intellectual property law has again had to confront the advent of a new technology and because a case like this challenges our society’s definition of ownership and fair use,” said Cox. “The net result in the short term will likely be a new round of lawsuits against existing file sharing firms, with song swappers moving quickly to non-U.S. peer-to-peer software. Unfortunately, the verdict will likely also have a chilling effect on innovation and may stifle the next generation of digital multimedia technology.” If you are an active peer to peer participant you may want to start looking for an alternative. Get more on this story here. June 26, 2005Business Intelligence MaturesInteresting article on the growth of business intelligence in India. Alok Shinde, director, information communication and technology practice, Frost and Sullivan, a global growth consulting company, says that the $33 million. Mr Shinde argues that consolidation in the BI market would happen very soon. “No other enterprise application area has seen this kind of growth. According to Frost and Sullivan the following vendors are finding traction in this growing market. Business Intelligence Solutions by Market Share Microsoft - 18% June 23, 2005Define the term "Customer"Ok, have you thought about it? Is a customer anyone who bought something this year? or someone who bought something ever? Maybe if you are in the shipping department it's someone who you shipped to? So which definition is correct? The point is that this lack of definition or business rule erodes the value of analytics. Monday I talked about the IDC Research study that reported for every $1 companies spend putting data into the system they are only spending $0.25 to utilize it. YUCK! The point is its an ever increasing challenge to most every company. Cerebra Inc. recently did a survey of attendees at the DAMA show and asked the following : 1. Consolidates the data into a data mart, data warehouse or ODS 2. Writes explicit code to do each data merge as needed 3. Uses a manual process to merge the data 4. Federates the data at runtime using and EII tool Vickie Farrell Vice President of Marketing for Cerebra stated. We believe that the organizations who attend DAMA are at the savvy end of the spectrum when it comes to data governance and managing data as a corporate asset. Many have mature data warehouse implementations. And yet, 43% of these companies say that they must resort to the use of specific code and/or manual processes for cross-functional queries. To paraphrase Vickie "consistent application of business rules and business policy across systems and groups within your organization" are critical. What does it say about the state of BI that so many companies are struggling with the quality and integration of data and applications? June 21, 2005Bridging the IT and Business GapThis isn't a new topic for any of us but it continues to be one worth discussing. In the July 15th issue of CIO Magazine You can find an insert from IDC Sponsored by Oracle titled Bridging the IT and Business Needs Gap by Dan Vesset. A couple interesting notes from the article: IDC research also points out an interesting desparity in spending. For every dollar spent on transaction processing apps, data capture and getting informnation into databases only $0.25 is spent getting data out for analytics. No thats a real problem. If you haven't checked out the web seminar hosted by myself and Claudia Imhoff titled Building a Total View of Your Customer you should. Claudia along with Daniel Mathieux of AAA make some great points about how important it is to bridge this gap. June 20, 2005Are Data Warehouse Appliances the Answer?It's an interesting debate as many of you know data warehouse appliances are getting a lot of traction in the market place. The leading solution providers in this space are making the news on our Network and other publications almost every week. I read a recent post on Duncan Lambs blog that seems to indicate a debate is brewing. Follow the links on his blog for more details (be aware that some links go to vendor written content). I think there is more than one way to address the ever-increasing data growth that virtually every company is facing. So far Appliances have demonstrated they are a solid alternative to addressing performance, scalability and low TCO. I'd like to hear from our readers regarding your thoughts on the subject. Look at the following companies for more information June 16, 2005Is HP Going to Sell its PC Division?Hewlett Packard CEO Mark Hurd is starting to rock the HP boat and I'm not surprised. In what some analysts saw as a slap at Carly Fiorina he has re-separated the Printer and PC Divisions that Fiorina merged during her last days at the helm. June 15, 2005To Infinity and Beyond!You have to check out this highly interesting and out of the box case study. I read a lot of case study materials but this one is out of this world. Sybase customer European Southern Observatory received Computerworld Honors recently with a very unique solution. Because I really think its worth the read I won't give you the details so follow the link above for case study. Here is an image or two that relates to the case study:
Continue reading "To Infinity and Beyond!" » TDWI Announces 2005 Best Practice WinnersThe Data Warehousing Institute Announces 2005 Best Practices Awards Winners Winners are chosen by a panel of independent judges who have expertise in BI and DW. 2005 Best Practices Winners: Best Enterprise BI Implementation: IBM June 14, 2005Things that make you go..... hmmmNow here's an interesting thought what if the recent announcement by Apple to drop IBM and adopt the Intel processor is just the first step in a grand scheme for Intel to purchase Apple? I wish I could lay claim to this unique observation/prediction but Robert Cringely best selling author of Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date beat me to it. Check out his blog and see what you think. June 13, 2005Umbria Communications - Understanding the Blogoshere and beyondI was reading Blogspotting this afternoon and ran across a piece by Stephen Baker that he wrote about Umbria Communications. His discussion with Howard Kaushansky President of Umbria is worth the read. I also had the opportunity to meet Howard Kaushansky a couple months back. Howard and I met at Starbucks in Boulder and a great conversation about his technology. Umbria's ability to analyze the unstructured world of Blogs, chats and discussion forums on a massive scale provides companies and marketers a unique view into the world of consumers. I see Umbria as a great fit for any software firm looking to aggregate and analyze all of the various forums and website that cover, discuss or critique their solution. Stephen does a great job elaborating so check out his Blog. June 10, 2005More on Open Source Business IntelligenceLast week I posted about the growing importance of open source solutions in BI. I wanted to direct you to a great post on the Bayon Blog written by Nicholas Goodman. He does a fantastic job on digging into the issue. My Open Source and Business Intelligence post from last week. Ab Initio - A to ZI'll be the first to admit that Ab Initio is a very interesting company largely because they choose to market and sell in ways that many find outside the norm. It appears that the folks at ITToolbox are definitely smitten. Over the past week or so they have covered Ab Initio in multiple ways. I enjoyed reading the blog posts and thought you might as well. June 9, 2005Is it me or is this dumb?Orlando International Airport is preparing to roll out a new program that would allow travelers to purchase a biometric ID card in order to speed-through the airport security lines. The kicker is that a card holder is guaranteed NOT to be selected for extra screening. I am a true fan of technology (geek at heart)as well as a very frequent traveler and I can clearly see the appeal of this program to a normal traveler. But I can't help but think that a would be terrorist might be able to scrape up 80 bucks to make his life easier. Check out the Clear Registered Traveler Program I really would love to hear your comments on this one.
June 7, 2005BPM goes around the globe...on a yacht.Applix, Inc. has installed it's TM1 solution on all 12 ocean racing yachts taking part in the Global Challenge Race that is arriving in Boston, this week. The 32,000-mile race began in Portsmouth, UK, on Sunday October 3, 2004, and stops ports all over the world.
Continue reading "BPM goes around the globe...on a yacht." » MicroStrategy Ranked Number 1Nigel Pendse of The OLAP Survey compiled findings from almost 1,000 customer sites. In the survey, companies using more than one BI product were asked which product they would choose to standardize on and why. Continue reading "MicroStrategy Ranked Number 1" » June 6, 2005Open Source Business Intelligence - a smart solutionI get the opportunity to hear about new solutions in our industry every week. These briefings are generally helpful in learning the what, how and why of vendor strategies (sometimes not ha ha). Put recently the focus on open source solutions are really gaining momentum. If you haven’t looked at open source as a viable answer to some of your business challenges you may be missing a golden opportunity. In a recent article titled CA ready to wage war against Oracle with Ingres in Eweek it outlines the cash investment made by CA into the building of the community. Continue reading "Open Source Business Intelligence - a smart solution" » |
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