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After upgrade to 2.0.1

January is now behind us and I'd like to think that the summer holidays are all behind us (read: all our New Year resolutions are broken and we can get back to behaving normally).

So now's the time to take stock of the state of the local Analytic market. There is a palpable climate of fear out in the job market, but I still believe that the demand for good BI and Analytics people goes on. Am I deluding myself? Well, we're analysts right?! So what is the evidence?

First:...

I have recently been asked to develop a new media strategy for the Sydney Symphony and as a result I am revisiting some old ground and finding new nuggets in the ever evolving internet. As proof I mention three of the emerging class of social mining services. Check out:

• Rapleaf
• Twistori
• MotiveQuest

What is social mining I hear you say? Here's one definition I like:

search services or activities performed to find information about people on the social web

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I was just talking to someone about this blog and in the interests of full disclosure I should mention 2 things to you all:

1. I am a current SAS user (or at least I manage teams that use it).
   
2. I used to work for Gartner (as a Research Director of Business Intelligence and Information Management) and I worked on a past BI Magic Quadrant.

I don't regard these as conflicts of interest but just in case someone does think this

I've also purchased most other...