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I’m a big fan of data visualization because it really helps people understand information. You can certainly derive a lot of insight from a report, but sometimes it helps to look at data in a different way. Dashboards are one way to get information to people in an easily digestible format. However, in order for…
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I recently had an interesting conversation about business intelligence and operational BI with Steve Mauss, President and COO of Knowledge Relay. Knowledge Relay was founded in 1984 and has its roots in project management software for the aerospace/defense and government verticals. Over the years, it has expanded its reach to support other industries such as…
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Sales are a critical component of what makes a company tick and metrics that measure sales performance are used by many organizations. Some companies track sales by category and examine pipeline metrics, sales metrics and win loss ratios. However, while companies may have metrics in place, this doesn’t mean that they are tracking the right…
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I was at the IBM software analyst meeting this past week and got the opportunity to hear about IBM’s impressive new initiative called Smarter Planet. This is big, bold stuff; perhaps even bigger than the company’s eBusiness initiative. The idea behind the effort is to use technology to make the world smarter. What does this…
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Collaborative BI is a trend that is beginning to gain momentum. The idea behind it is to make it easier for people in a company (or even outside of the company) to work together to analyze data and share analysis. There are several ways to accomplish this goal – from the simple to more complex.. …
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I had the opportunity last week to learn more about Leximancer, a text analytics company with its roots in Australia. Leximancer recently moved some of its operations to the U.S. and I had a very interesting conversation with CEO Neil Hartley about the company. Leximancer was founded in 2005. Its technology is based on seven…
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I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jeff Caitlin, CEO of Lexalytics Ltd. about the Lexalytics/Infonic merger. Although the merger occurred several months ago, it was actually good timing, because Jeff could explain a bit more about what is happening with newly merged company, what the products look like, where the company is heading…
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I recently had the opportunity to speak with Michael DeNitto and Mark Budreski from MarketSight about enhancements to the MarketSight platform and future plans. MarketSight is a web-based survey analysis tool. I use it as part of my own toolkit at Hurwitz & Associates. While I am a fairly sophisticated data analyst, what is nice…
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Over the past several weeks, I’ve been briefed by a number of text analytics vendors and companies in partnership with text analytics vendors about syndicated services that make use of text analytics. Of course, syndicated services such as brand monitoring and news services that make use this technology to some degree have been around for…
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I add my thoughts to others who have blogged on the Summit. See the Seth Grimes posting, for all of the other comments. I too agree that it was great to see a large number of end users at the Summit, this year. I was especially interested in the fact that a number of them…
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