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Welcome

Dave Wells

Welcome to the business analytics expert channel for the Business Intelligence Network.

Analytics is truly the next major stage in the business intelligence (BI) evolution, shifting attention from how we deliver information to how we use that information. It is a large, complex field that encompasses statistical analysis, predictive analytics, text and speech analytics, web analytics, visualization, causal analysis and much more. Most importantly, analytics involves people - the business analysts.

I welcome your thoughts, comments and contributions to make this a lively and valuable channel. Please e-mail me at dwells@infocentric.org with your thoughts and ideas.

Articles

Analytic Culture – Does It Matter?
by Dave Wells
We can't create business intelligence culture. But we can, and we should, shape the culture that exists.

Gaining Insight through Analytics – It Takes More than OLAP
by Dave Wells
What are the keys to real business insight? Dave Wells describes the nature of insight and what is required to gain true insight.

Business Analytics – Getting the Point
by Dave Wells
Analytics is about making a difference – providing the insight and understanding to support informed decisions and confident actions, and providing the feedback that is needed to create a learning organization.

News

Brotherhood Mutual Selects Information Builders
Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Company has selected Information Builders WebFOCUS BI platform as its enterprise reporting standard to support a web of knowledge that makes the company more cohesive.

Aternity Launches Frontline Performance Intelligence Partner Program
FPI Partner Program is designed for vendors delivering products and services in the financial services, healthcare, energy, manufacturing and retail industries.

Mississauga Selects SAP ERP Human Capital Management Solution
The City of Mississauga noted a number of benefits expected from SAP ERP HCM in the areas of human resources and payroll

HP Announces a Comprehensive Set of Consulting Services
Systems will help communications companies improve their competitiveness as they adapt to the convergence of telecom, IT and entertainment.

LucidEra Announces LucidEra Lead Insight
LucidEra Lead Insight is an analytic application that directly aligns marketing programs with sales success.

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White Papers

The Essential Roadmap to ETL Tool Migration Membership required to view this content
Migrating from one ETL tool to another presents significant challenges to an IT organization. Here is a checklist of ETL migration issues, challenges and questions that an organization should consider and answer before an ETL migration project begins.

Optimize Your Enterprise Data Warehouse Membership required to view this content
Discover proven, best practices and design options for a data warehouse that can significantly reduce system and maintenance costs by tailoring the system investment to match the value of the resulting analytic capabilities.

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Solution Spotlights

	Suresh Chandrasekaran, Vice President of Marketing for Denodo Technologies Inc. Suresh Chandrasekaran explains how Denodo integrates structured, semi-structured and unstructured data in enterprise data mash-ups and makes it available in a composite view for analysis.

	Trevor Hughes, President & CEO of Star Analytics Trevor Hughes discusses the Star Integration Server as an enterprise software product that unifies financial analysis application portfolios and enables customers to extend the value of their investments in business intelligence and data warehousing.

	Kathleen Schaub, Vice President of Product Marketing for Intelligent Enterprise for Sybase, Inc Kathleen Schaub explains how Sybase IQ handles the most challenging data warehousing requirements, meeting the demand for advanced analytics and fast reporting, and delivering unsurpassed query performance at the lowest price/performance available.

Resources

Associations

Web Analytics Association
The Web Analytics Association (WAA) unites and fosters the interests of industry practitioners, vendors, consultants and educators who use, sell, install, implement, consult, teach or train in the field of web analytics.

Non-profit Organizations

International Institute of Business Analysis
The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA) is the independent non-profit professional association serving the growing field of Business Analysis. Whatever your role—requirements management, systems analysis, business analysis, requirements analysis, project management, or consulting; the IIBA can help you do your job better.

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Links

Online Publications/Magazines

The Modeling Agency Quarterly Newsletter
Receive training schedule updates, new course announcements and non-promotional articles on knowledge discovery, data mining, predictive modeling and knowledge engineering via The Modeling Agency's free electronic newsletter. Instructions on how to unsubscribe are included with each issue.

Directories

TextAnalytics.com
This website provides a variety of text analytics links.

Miscellaneous

Spatial@ucsb
This site is an innovative university-wide resource and research center at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Its mission is to facilitate the integration of spatial thinking into processes for learning and discovery in the natural, social,and behavioral sciences, to promote excellence in engineering and applied sciences, and to enhance creativity in the arts and humanities.
Systems Thinking
The intent of this website is not to study systems as a discipline, though more an intent to study lots of things and employ a systems perspective to foster understanding. Information is provided to enable one to develop a level of understanding sufficient to delve into what resides at this website.

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