Just trying to link the CORTEX into Technorati. This is a social networking site that tracks activity across millions of blogs. I think that this sort of technology is going to help corporations and individuals track their online reputations so that they can quickly respond to negative postings.


Technorati Profile

The recent Business Objects APAC Insight conference talked a lot about the power of combining unstructured and structured data. Of course they backed this up with a 'sell' message of how BOBJ makes all this easy to use. It isn't, but they are coming out with some cool tools. Now Polestar is one of these. This tool should be shipping by year-end and it combines a simple search function with the more traditional BOBJ reporting capabilities we know and love from Deski and Webi.
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Day 2 of the annual business objects user conference for Asia Pacific region and I am enjoying it. Have heard one or two nuggets of useful information. Posted one in another forum here.

Somebody just described perfectly to me the role of a BI Manager:

Nerd Whisperer

Love it!

Just gave a speech at the The Sydney Technology & Innovation for Banking and Financial Services Conference. The blurb from the event was:

Transforming Data into Actionable Information with Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence is touted by vendors and consultants alike as the new ‘new thing’. In the real world, actionable intelligence is a lot harder to achieve. The secret to unlocking the promise of Business Intelligence is a complex challenge that most large

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