Thursday, January 28, 2010

Insert Cricket Sound...

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I've been so jammed up lately I never got a chance to update this blog. As you might have heard (if you were kind enough to check back h...
Monday, December 21, 2009

Social Media Marketing 101 - The New Fountain of Youth

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I was recently asked to opine on what makes a social media manager and his (or her) strategy successful in today's market. Having dabble...
Monday, December 7, 2009

The Wailing Wall of Open Source BI

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Henry David Thoreau once wrote: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation". Much the same can be said of the multitude of u...
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Sunday, November 29, 2009

Of CRM Golden Calves and Ten Commandments of SaaS Landlordship.

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I have a pet peeve concerning two things I’ve been meaning to write about lately, namely CRM and multi-tenancy. I recently read an excell...
Friday, November 27, 2009

S&M: Where the SaaS rubber doesn’t meet the BI road.

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I was lucky enough to be at Dreamforce 2009 last week and wanted to pen down a few thoughts while the event is still fresh in my mind...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Of Birthrights and DNA in the BI Cloud World

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I have been so busy getting ramped up on GoodData that I haven’t had a minute to post here in over a week.  On Friday, I am headed out to o...
Monday, October 19, 2009

On Bringing the Good News While Clearing Out Fungus.

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I wanted to spend a little time sharing some good news with you.  I am going to be Technical Evangelist for a relatively new company called ...
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Sunday, October 11, 2009

BI in a New York Minute is Born

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In my last post, I mentioned I was going to do a "trial & error" run on a recent concept of providing weekly BI tidbits (n...
Friday, October 9, 2009

Your Weekly BI News in a “New York Minute”

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I’m a glutton for BI information to the point of addiction. A day rarely goes by without my “scanning” three hundred or so feeds, blogs, twi...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Baking MapReduce into Database Engines - Worth the Reduction Sauce?

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MapReduce (implementations include Hadoop and CloudDB) has gained popularity in the industry. It also serves as marketing fodder for several...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

SELECT SUM(blessings) FROM working_in_bi

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If you’re working in the business intelligence industry, you should really count your blessings.  Mind you, you can do that if you’re employ...