http://www.biguru-online.com PLEASE REACT - BE AN ONLINE GURE YOURSELF Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:49:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In school I participated in a Poem contest. Although I didn’t win I found writing poetry to be fun. But as with many fun things you forget how important they are and after time you do not practice them at all. Instead we find other not so funny things more ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/09/04/business-intelligence-haiku/ 2008 has been quite a year for Business Intelligence. We have seen large platform vendors buying well known BI companies. The result is that the BI market will be dominated by three maybe four players. This market, some predict, will grow with another 10% this coming year. Some analysts have ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/09/02/open-source-bi-a-potential-alternative-for-commercial-bi/   Just imagine that your local hardware store gives you a hammer for each and every project you want to undertake. Paint the house? Here have a hammer. Fix the light? Here have a hammer. Build a shed? Here have a hammer. Actually, that last one made sense. In order to ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/08/08/the-fit-between-bi-user-and-solutions/ http://www.computable.nl/artikel/ict_topics/business_intelligence/2546402/1277145/bisuccesfactoren-the-wisdom-of-crowds.html http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/05/08/computable-bi/ RT: There is a slowdown in the BI market (I think). The reason for this is that most organizations have some kind of BI solution in place. The next challenge will be information management. The problem is that we need a business case for this. IT is at a deadend ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/05/06/bi-msn/ There is much talk about the impact of the (feared) recession on Business Intelligence. Most analysts are expecting a slowdown in customer spending and vendor revenues. I see their point and I am somewhat inclined to agree but there is another side to this. There is an expression that goes ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/05/06/economic-downturn-business-intelligence/ Currently I am working for the BI competence center of Albert Heijn (supermarkets) in Zaandam (Netherlands). Last week this AH BICC won the Dutch Business Intelligence Award. Please read the full article (Dutch) on http://www.computable.nl/topic_artikel.jsp?rubriek=1277145&id=2456110 http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/04/07/albert-heijn-wins-bi-award/ In a move that turns the heat up on Microsoft Excel, Google is partnering with business intelligence firm Panorama Software to develop a software-as-a-service (SaaS) analytics, reporting and data visualization tool for its free online Google Docs applications suite. The BI firm that handed Microsoft the original OLAP technology that's ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/03/28/google-bi/ I was asked by an IT magazine in the Netherlands to come up with a couple of practical tips on BI service delivery. In my opinion the most important element in service delivery is creating a optimal mix of all crucial elements. My submitted three practical tips cover design, build ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/03/11/service-delivery-its-in-the-mix/ What is the most annoying thing that can happen when you want to buy a carton of milk? That the milk is out of stock! As a customer this is very frustrating. As a consumer of a certain product of service you want to get what you need. The same ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/03/07/who-is-your-customer/ My fellow blogger Frank Buytendijk and myself have been writing together about the 10 BI truths.  Now Frank has started an new episode with Top 5 list. Read his hilarious blog here: http://blogs.oracle.com/frankbuytendijk I have tried to come up with some top list myself. Business Intelligence improvements I love to ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/02/15/top-5-diablog/ The beginning of the year is always a period to look back but even more important to look forward. On the radio I hear a lot of commercials from different training institutes urging people to add their specific course, study or lecture to their 2008 curriculum. I expect that employees ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/01/25/back-to-school/ Times they are changing. Last year has been tumultuous for BI at best. We have seen the BI market consolidate into a few remaining mega vendors. But there was also room for niche players especially the ones focusing on speed, visualization or collaboration. So what will 2008 bring? To quote ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/01/16/business-intelligence-mega-trends-2008-the-power-of-five-i/ Detailed insight into crucial data and events is a necessity for organizations that want to navigate a constantly changing, information-rich environment. Intelligent organizations are constantly reading, analyzing and reacting to information inside and far outside the companies’ boundaries. Information thus becomes a corporate asset, which infuses itself into all strategic ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2008/01/09/service-level-agreements-time-to-rethink/ Almost all human beings, except for the blind or visually challenged, are by nature visually orientated. Our eyes constantly monitor our surroundings searching for things that are out of the ordinary. This real time interface between eyes and the visual cortex of the brain has helped the human race survive ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2007/12/19/visual-business-intelligence/ Detailed insight into crucial data and events is a necessity for organizations that want to navigate a constantly changing, information-rich environment. Organizations that know how to connect the use of data to their strategic objectives are more intelligent: they become ‘Intelligent enterprises’, constantly reading, analyzing and reacting to information inside ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2007/12/13/business-intelligence-vision-or-business-case/ Take a look at this post on the Eweek website: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2227695,00.asp Reuters wrote on December 4th: ´Shares in software maker SAP extended gains and hit the day’s high on Monday as traders cited market talk of bid interest from Microsoft. SAP declined comment”. If this is true it would be an interesting ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2007/12/10/rumour-microsoft-to-buy-sap/ This is the second part of my posts about the ‘universal truths in business intelligence’. Check out what Frank Buytendijk thinks at: http://blogs.oracle.com/frankbuytendijk/2007/12/04#a95 4. BI projects need high level sponsorship. The reason for this is that we want to introduce Business Intelligence in the organization. It is all about creating awareness ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2007/12/06/diablogue-the-final-four-truths/ Alles is BI [Click to open pdf] Everything is BI, but what is BI and what is happening in the BI world with all the vendor consilidation? In this pdf file you can find an article (I was interviewed for this) published in channelworld about the subject. ARTICLE IS IN DUTCH http://www.biguru-online.com/2007/12/04/everything-is-bi/ Yesterday we had a workshop with Andre van der Waal. He is a leading CPM specialist in the Netherlands and writes a lot about high performing organizations. We had a discussion about the active or passive role for IT. I argued that although Business Intelligence projects need a business driven ... http://www.biguru-online.com/2007/12/04/active-push-or-passive-pull-role-for-it/