January « 2011 « Shawn Rogers

HP No longer a player in business intelligence

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 26, 2011 | 4 Comments

I cover many business intelligence vendors; some execute and some don’t. I started in this industry back in the mid 90′s and I don’t think I have witnessed another meltdown quite like HP’s business intelligence group. This morning HP announced that it would no longer actively sell its NeoView BI solution. Its not uncommon for...

Posted in Business Intelligence Tags: Business intelligence, Hewlett-Packard, HP, Mark Hurd, Microsoft

Friday Funny – Anatidaephobia

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 21, 2011 | 0 Comments

Excuse me sir, is this thing headed to Florida? Anatidaephobia:is the fear that a duck is watching...

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Friday Funny – Wolfram Alpha Style

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

A great post from MathFail.com highlighting the funny answers you can get from the Wolfram Alpha search engine. Click here to see more examples...

Posted in Friday Funny Tags: Friday Funny, mathfail.com, Wolfram Alpha

Top 10 Trends in Business Intelligence and Analytics for 2011

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 11, 2011 | 0 Comments

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It seems that at the turn of each year pundits, experts and analysts find it necessary to wax poetic on the future of the business intelligence space. Not wanting to be left out I thought I’d share a few of my thoughts on this past year and the trends and technologies that will be part...

Posted in Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Integration, Mergers & Acquisitions, SaaS Business Intelligence Tags: 2011, Business intelligence, Cloud Computing, Hadoop, Master Data Management, Open source, Software as a service, Top 10 List

SaaS Business Intelligence Checklist – Architecture and Features

posted by Shawn Rogers | January 3, 2011 | 2 Comments

This post is part 3 of a ten part series on the important things to consider when working with SaaS business Intelligence vendors. Part 1, Part 2 Today’s topic is Architecture and Feature Sets for SaaS Business Intelligence Solutions Cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS) both took significant steps forward in 2010. Early...

Posted in Business Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Data Integration, SaaS Business Intelligence Tags: Business intelligence, Cloud Computing, Platform as a service, Software as a service