Shifting Focus From Dashboards to Apps
If you have been wondering why things have been quiet on my blog, it is because I have been in the trenches with my team grinding out the remaining pieces of GMaps Mobile. This week, we finally loaded...
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Stroll down memory lane with Dashboards and Xcelsius
A few weeks ago, I had a great podcast titled Business Intelligence Apps, where I talked with Donald MacCormick and the guys from Diversified Semantic Layer about how technology and business...
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New SAP ACT Newsletter: Analytics Cultural Transformation
Over the last 18 months, I have had countless discussions about the state of affairs with social networking and the lack of content dedicated to BI Decision makers and stakeholders. SCN is a great...
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My new years resolution is to use my brain less
The title sounds ridiculous but the reality is that my goal for 2013 is to rely less on my memory for tasks and organization and re-define the process, mechanisms, and technologies that I use to...
View ArticleWhy I HATE Twitter
I am not a huge fan of Twitter, and have secretly hoped that someone would invent a successor for a long time.. You can’t deny the popularity of the Twitter platform and its staggering statistics for...
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SAP LAVA. Groundbreaking Design or Just Another Bar Chart?
This week, SAP announced LAVA “Lightweight Applied Visual Analytics as their new approach for data visualization within the SAP Business Intelligence portfolio. According to SAP’s Anita Gibbings ,...
View ArticleAdobe Flash on its Last Leg
Over the last 3 years, I have written written a few articles related to the readiness of HTML5. At this stage, I am confident that the only remaining leg-up that Flash has on HTML5/Javascript is a...
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Internet of Things: Exciting yet Scary Proposition
In January, Google announced the acquisition of Nest, which is a cool gadget that injects intelligence, access, and connectivity to your thermostat. In the same week, Proofpoint identified a cyber...
View ArticleHow Internet of Things Can Kill You
Last month, I wrote an article describing real world issues that can occur when “smart devices” go wrong. Today a story came out about Nest’s smart smoke detector having a critical defect that puts its...
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The BIG Data Drinking Game
In 2012, while walking the show floor at SAPPHIRE NOW, I formulated the Big Data drinking game. The rules were simple: When you hear “Big Data” spouted as marketing jargon, drink! When you hear “Big...
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How to Transform your Inbox into Command Central
If you think Excel is your corporation’s biggest inhibitor for accessing, analyzing, and distributing actionable information, you wrong. Email is by far one of the greatest time, productivity, and...
View Article2014 Review: Tableau was an Unstoppable Force
It’s that time of year again where I get to sit back and reflect on what I experienced, and get pumped up for the new year ahead! The first thing I do is look back at what I said would occur in Dec 213...
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Jumping Ship from Salesforce.com
I am a long time customer and fan of Salesforce.com. As cloud adoption soars, Salesforce has transformed itself from a CRM into a cloud platform as a service. The problem, is while Salesforce is...
View ArticleBring on Self Driving Cars!
Self driving cars are fun to think about because it is a major shift from how the world operates. Regardless of petroleum or alternative fuels, all car companies are on the path to inject driverless...
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