My last class at TDWI San Diego was thought provoking and oh so timely. The growth in self service business intelligence has been widely documented. My class clearly shared the drivers for the rise in the business' desire to drive the information delivery initiative and presented realistic paradigm changes for
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It's always important to remember your fundamentals. Sort of like a basketball player who practices lay-ups and free throws for hours on end, you need the fundamentals in the midst of the game. Having the skills or knowledge in the heat of the moment - when it counts - is
Agility. I've been giving a lot of thought to the term while here in San Diego for the TDWI World Conference. "Evolving Your Agile BI Environment" is the theme of this year's event and "agility" has definitely been embedded in the conversations I have had with customers the past few
In preparation for TDWI San Diego, I was finalizing my schedule and checking out what some of my favorite TDWI instructors are up to for San Diego. I'll be blogging about my fave classes from these instructors all next week. This evening I caught up on Cindi Howson 's blog
The themes of best practices and how to quantify return on a technology initiative have raced through my reading the past couple of weeks. The Economist’s recent special report on Government and Technology struck me because it covers so many issues – including citizen expectations – facing governments trying to
Recently, the European leg of Gartner's BI Summit series wrapped up Amsterdam. With the crazy pace of vendor consolidation and the release of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms Q1 2008 on the Friday prior to the conference, everyone wanted to hear what the folks had to say about