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February 21, 2008

Business Intelligence for the Masses - 8 Million users and growing

Is it me or shouldn't every city have a business intelligence and performance management system like the one just rolled out in New York? The new Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR) system powered by Oracle and designed to give every citizen insight into 40 agencies and 100's of KPI's is a very cool idea.

Any citizen logged into the system can quickly have a dashboard view of just about any city agencies performance. If your interested in street cleaning, potholes or the trend this past year on firefighter response time its all at your fingertips. The performance indicators provide insight into critical agency measures and performance comparisons over time. It's graphical and very easy to use.

So does this mean that the 8.2 million residents of New York are part of the worlds most pervasive Performance Management system? I'm not sure but I really wish my city offered this type of insight.

Did you know that murder is down 18% in New York this year? The citizens of NY do.

Here a couple interesting links to the story.

Mayor Bloomberg Unveils Citywide Performance Reporting (CPR)

Frank Buytendijk Blog at Oracle

Tags: Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Oracle, Citywide Performance Reporting

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April 24, 2007

Hyperion Solutions 2007 - John Kopcke Interview

Interview with Hyperion CTO, John Kopcke.
I am in Orlando at the Hyperion Solutions 2007 event and this morning had a chance to sit down and chat with John Kopcke. We talked about the acquisition, the future of Hyperion, business performance management and whats next for business intelligence.

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Technorati Tags: Business Intelligence, Performance Management, Hyperion, John Kopcke

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January 31, 2007

Gartner Business Intelligence Summit UK

I thought I'd do a bit of a recap on the event so far. Its my first visit to London so everything here is a bit new. I can saw however that there is a certain element of comfort in that I have gotten to see many of my friends at the event. The attendance is great over 600+ and the content is reasonably solid as well. I say reasonably only because they are forced to span the advanced to the elementary in many of the talks so its difficult to keep all of us happy all the time.

Andreas Bitterer kicked things off yesterday and shared his latest research: Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 1Q07. The leaders quadrant continues to contain Business Objects, Cognos, Hyperion, Oracle and SAS. New comer to the report is Spotfire who was included due to it's "innovative analysis capabilities and positioning".

Microsoft's Alex Payne spoke in a session yesterday to a standing room only audience as he presented the importance of pervasive business intelligence. An interesting point was discussed during the session concerning pricing. The bottom line being that low cost or "cheap pricing" doesn't always mean that a product isn't enterprise quality or feature rich. Alex drove the point home by unveiling the new pricing options available and it caused a few gasps in the room. In short, enterprise ready business intelligence at extremely aggressive pricing has officially arrived.

Several people left the room in a rush after the slide went up, its possible not everyone in the space is pleased with the new pricing?

I hope to have more on the Microsoft piece today.

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June 7, 2005

BPM 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.

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