I recently came across an interesting online video entitled 'What Is Business Intelligence?' An interesting question and it does a very good job of introducing the history of BI.

The video was made by a guy in BI Solutions at Microsoft.

I suspect that it is designed to be a viral advert setting us all up for Microsoft's new 'BI 3.0' offering. Now that doesn't make what's in the video wrong per se. So take a look at the video and see if we can agree that the characteristics...

True to my last blog, I talk about data quality at ING Direct in today's Australian newspaper.

While the article is not what I imagined it would be, it does cover some of the practical benefits of improving data quality.

For anyone interested, I am talking about data quality in much greater detail at the coming DQ Asia Pacific conference later this month.

I have just been taking a look at the DQ Asia Pacific conference happening on 24 - 26 March in Sydney and it got me wondering about whether-or-not this is the year of data quality.

The recent Gartner BIIM Summit also touched on this subject.

Is there renewed interest in this 'dry' subject? I spent many of the 00 years hiding DQ activities from my stakeholders as I knew that they a) wouldn't understand their importance and b) didn't care! I still spent a lot of time...

TDWI has posted an article entitled "Judgement Versus Analytics" and it gave me another perspective on a problem that I have been grappling with for some months: how do I get decision makers to trust my analytics?

The original article can be found here.

I'm posting this here but I don't agree with most of what is stated - but it is a good conversation to have, even if it is only with yourself!


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After the depressing topic of redundancies in my last post, I thought it would be worthwhile looking at a positive and innovative use of analytics in the real world.

Some years ago, an interesting book was published called Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. You can find more details here in our Intel500 database. It was all about how the coach of the US baseball team the Oakland A's beat everyone by using analytics.

Well it looks like gridiron...