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Blog:What Does R Integration Really Mean For BI Platforms?

I just received yet another call from a reporter asking me to comment on yet another BI vendor announcing R integration. All leading BI vendors are embedding/integrating with R these days, so I was...

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Blog:Best practices for using spreadsheets as BI tools

By Boris Evelson We all know that the war of fighting the proliferation of spreadsheets (as BI or as any other applications) in enterprises has been fought and lost. Gone are the days when BI and...

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Blog:COTS Vs. Home-Grown BI Apps

Wanted to run the following two questions and my answers by the community: Q. What is the average age of reporting applications at large enterprises? A. Reporting apps typically involve source data...

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Blog:What SQL Cannot Do

I recently asked my Twitter followers if they had good examples of queries, business questions that SQL can't do. It turns out a better question is "what SQL can't do easily", so I thought...

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Blog:Use A Four-Step Approach To Select The Right BI Services Provider

BI projects are never short, and, alas, many of them don't end since a fast-paced business environment often introduces new requirements, enhancements, and updates before you're even done...

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Blog:“Just Right” Customer Analytics - update

Why, oh, why is it that every time I hear about a BI project from an IT person, or from a business stakeholder describing how IT delivered it, with few exceptions, these are the stories plagued with...

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Blog:Advanced Data Visualization - A Critical BI Component

As one of the industry-renowned data visualization experts Edward Tufte once said, “The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich...

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Blog:It's The Dawning Of The Age Of BI DBMS

Over the years we’ve learned how to address the key business intelligence (BI) challenges of the past 20 years, such as stability, robustness, and rich functionality. Agility and...

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Report:Use HR Analytics To Optimize Talent Processes

HR Analytics Help Improve Workforce Recruiting, Performance, And Learning

Human resources (HR) analytics have taken on new importance as organizations strive to hire, develop, and retain the best employees to remain competitive in fields where efficiency and human...

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Blog:Big Data Survey

Forrester is in the middle of a major research effort on various Big Data-related topics. As part of this research, we’ll be kicking off a client survey shortly. I’d like to...

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Blog:A Bit Of BI Humor

We all work very hard to make our BI initiatives, programs, platforms, applications, and tools very successful. We need a break. And what better way to relax than to joke about what we do? So... as...

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Report:Establish Ongoing Processes To Assess Your Business Intelligence Maturity

Assessment: The Business Intelligence Playbook

Forrester's business intelligence (BI) maturity self-assessment model helps BI professionals quickly assess the maturity of their current-state environments. It also allows BI pros to benchmark their...

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Report:Forrester's Business Intelligence DBMS Effort Estimation Model

This diagnostic tool is designed to help you understand the potential long-term cost-of-ownership savings that your organization can realize from the use of specialized business intelligence database...

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Blog:Where Do You Draw The Lines Between Business And IT Ownership Of Data And Information?

I get many questions on this subject and it often turns into almost a religious debate. Let's throw some structure into it. Here's a decision-to-raw-data stack. Decisions Strategy Policies...

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Blog:Does The Good Old 80/20 Rule Work For Estimating BI Costs?

I get tons of questions about "how much it costs to develop an analytical application." Alas, as most of us unfortunately know, the only real answer to that question is “it depends.” It...

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Blog:Join Me For A BI Strategy Workshop In Cambridge, Mass., On October 19, 2010

Business intelligence (BI) continues to be front and center on the agendas of businesses of all sizes and in all industries and geographies. Ever-increasing data volumes, complexity of global...

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Blog:Continuation Of The BI Software Plus Services Convergence Trend

As we predicted more than three years ago, BI software and services are converging. Today, Deloitte announced its acquisition of the assets of the BI SaaS vendor Oco.  This is a great...

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Report:How Forrester Clients Are Using Big Data

These data charts are based on the June 2011 Global Big Data Online Survey.

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Blog:Key Questions To Ask Yourself Before Embarking On A Big Data Journey

Do you think you are ready to tackle Big Data because you are pushing the limits of your data Volume, Velocity, Variety and Variability? Take a deep breath (and maybe a cold shower) before you...

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Blog:When ROLAP Is Not A ROLAP

I get many inquiries on the differences and pros and cons of MOLAP versus ROLAP architectures for analytics and BI. In the old days, the differences between MOLAP, DOLAP, HOLAP, and ROLAP were...

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Report:Drive Business Insight With Effective BI Strategy

Executive Overview: The Business Intelligence Playbook

How does an enterprise — especially a large, global one with multiple product lines and multiple enterprise resource planning (ERP) applications — make sense of operations, logistics, and...

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Report:BI Maturity In The Enterprise: 2010 Update

This set of data charts presents the findings from Forrester's Q4 2010 Global BI Maturity Online Survey. The data charts also highlight the differences and trends from our Q4 2009 survey.

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Client Inquiry:Can You Answer Some Business Intelligence Questions?

We have many questions about business intelligence (BI): 1) If we invest in visualization-based discovery tools, is a dashboard still needed? 2) Some firms claim a data warehouse is no longer needed...

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Blog:Oracle Leapfrogs BI Competitors By Acquiring Endeca

This is a very smart move by Oracle. Until the Siebel and Hyperion acquisitions, Oracle was not a leader in the BI and analytics space. Those acquisitions put them squarely in the top three together...

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Blog:BI In The Cloud: Separating Facts From Fiction

“… and they lived happily ever after.” This is the typical ending of most Hollywood movies, which is why I am not a big fan. I much prefer European or independent movies that leave...