The IT-Finance Connection’s Views on the News

January 8, 2009

Two studies — one looking at business intelligence in health care and the other at what jobs areas will be offering employment — suggest that while BI isn’t immune to the recession, opportunities still exist. Everybody understands that times will remain tough for the foreseeable future. The sense from these two items is that the situation is far from hopeless.

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The View From Here: Nate Silver Knows Baseball, Politics — and BI

January 7, 2009

People who do BI for a living love numbers and facts. However, they must remember that computer programs only go so far. Nate Silver, a noted baseball statistician and the founder of one of the hottest sites during the presidential election season–his final predictions were scary in their accuracy–says that context is necessary for real understanding and to enable the organization to make the best decisions. Seeing a situation in real world terms will help avoid missteps and make a successful implementation far more likely.

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The View From Here: Check Out Our New Job Center

January 6, 2009

A quick note about The IT-Finance Connection’s new free job section. It’s rudimentary and not too good looking, but hopefully it will serve the very important purpose of enabling those holding and those seeking positions in the BI field to find each other.

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Tableau Software’s Chabot: Not Your Father’s Business Intelligence

January 5, 2009

Big projects often disappoint because they are built on centralized platforms that are difficult to deploy, use complex interfaces and are run by specialists, says Tableau Software CEO Christian Chabot. While these platforms remain useful in the long run, they must be supplemented by a separate class of easy-to-use and quickly deployed “rapid fire” products.