Business is Not All About Measurement

August 31, 2009

berg In theory, IT consolidation is great. It can improve coordination and let the organization understand precisely what is going on in the field. IT consultant and IT-Finance Connection Advisory Board member Cliff Berg says that real world problems arise when the desire for control and measurement becomes an obstacle to the performance of the task at hand. This, he says, can lead staff to seek non-approved and hidden resources.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire for July 1

July 1, 2009

newspaper icon Companies mentioned: ParAccel, Scout Analytics, Oracle, Aegis Analytical, Calabrio, Aster Data Systems, Intel Capital, Sense Networks, WIND Telecom, Netezza, Motio, Vitria, IBM Cognos, NICE, Datamonitor, Analog Devices, MetricStream, Flurry, Atimi, Five Mobile, MobileCDN, Baseline Consulting, Broadstreet Data, MicroStrategy, Heartland Payment Systems, AccountMate Software and ClickBase Corporation.

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The IT-Finance Connection Newswire for May 19

May 19, 2009

Companies mentioned in this edition: IBM, SRC, Thunderhead, Winn-Dixie, Teradata, ROI Analyticsm, CAST, David Consulting Group, CSC, QlikView, BeyeNETWORK, Dell, SAP Business Objects, Catylist, The Swiss Colony, Pentaho, Price Chopper, ParAccel, EMC, the World Organization of Webmasters and PetrisWINDS.

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Five Minutes of News: LogiXML, Virginia and the Stimulus

March 18, 2009

Yes, Virginia, there is a business intelligence industry. In this podcast, David Abramson, LogiXML’s Director of Product Management, tells The IT-Finance Connection how its products are helping the commonwealth collect and process ideas from citizens on how its portion of the federal stimulus money should be spent.

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Five Minutes of News: Star Analytics’ Integration Server 2.5

March 5, 2009

In a podcast, Star Analytics’ CEO Trevor Hughes tells The IT-Finance Connection that the company’s new server extracts data more quickly from Hyperion applications, supports a wider range of database technologies and enables organizations to fulfill International Financial Reporting Standards requirements.

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EPM Enables More Effective Use of BI Tools

January 12, 2009

Lori Wizdo, the Vice President of Marketing for KNOA Software, says that managers know little about the problems and challenges end users have in their use of sophisticated BI programs. KNOA’s experience and performance management software—which, she says, sits between BI and business process management—is designed to shine a light on the issues.

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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.