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MicroStrategy Takes BI Mobile – What are The Implications of Mobile BI for BI Platforms?
Posted in: BlogHaving just got back from the MicroStrategy World Conference in beautiful Cannes, I thought I would cover what was announced this week at the event. CEO Michael Saylor launched MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone, iPad and Blackberry describing it as “the most significant launch in MicroStrategy history”. In his opening keynote he talked about mobile as […]
BITunes on the Cloud? – The Emergence Of Subscription Based On-Demand BI
Posted in: BlogAs I research more and more into the world of Cloud-based BI, it is becoming pretty evident where we are headed. In my opinion we are moving down the road to an iTunes model for BI. Yesterday I spent some time with Actuate in London looking at their BIRT On-Demand platform as a service (PaaS) […]
Cloud Based BI – Understanding The Options Is the Biggest Barrier
Posted in: BlogLast week I was in Munich to present at the annual TDWI (The Data Warehouse Institute) conference on “Business Intelligence and Data Management in a Cloud Computing Environment”. It was a very well attended conference with some great speakers and sessions. My session focused on the following: What is Cloud Computing and why use it […]
Chasm Not Crossed as A Sensor Data Tsunami Comes Over The Horizon
Posted in: BlogJust over a week ago I spent a day at SensorExpo in Chicago to present on Complex Event Processing (CEP) discussing how CEP engines, Predictive Analytics, business rules can be used to analyse sensor emitted event data in-motion to facilitate business optimisation. This was a very busy conference. I estimated at least 2000-3000 people on […]
Microsoft Opens Up Collaborative and Self-Service BI
Posted in: BlogJust over a week ago I was invited to attend an analyst briefing at the Microsoft BI conference in New Orleans that was running alongside the Microsoft TechEd conference. The conference itself was very well attended with several thousand delegates. Several things were on show at this event including SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, […]