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Business Intelligence Radar: Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Britain

What is business intelligence?  It’s the set of tools, abilities, and data required to create a picture of the world and how your organization operates in that world.  In building your business intelligence capabilities, you can learn a lot by looking at a historical precedent, the rise of radar, and applying it to your problems of getting to... [Read more of this review]

The Ten Commandments of Business Intelligence (with all due credit to Moses and his Supervisor)

I. If you’re not omnipotent, business intelligence is the closest you’re going to get. Business intelligence, properly implemented, provides all stakeholders in an organization with a common view of what has happened, and with advanced analytics capabilities, can even predict the future. II. It’s ok – there are many business intelligence technologies,... [Read more of this review]

Tying results to individuals

I was at a client this week and had the opportunity to present how a business intelligence solution using QlikView could provide needed insight to readily available, but difficult to analyze, supply-chain data.  The extract of sample data provided (we like to use real data from each prospect in our demos whenever practical) showed how a variety of... [Read more of this review]

Eyes Wide Shut: The Case for a Developing a Corporate Early Warning System

In the Battle of Britain… radar was the eyes of Fighter Command… its effectiveness was greatly enhanced by being only one element of, and integrated into, a sophisticated command and control network which received the raw information of radar plots and rapidly applied it to direct the use of precious resources of pilots and aircraft to the best... [Read more of this review]

The Vertical Integration of Knowledge

Vertical integration typically refers to the degree to which an organization owns (or controls) its own suppliers and/or consumers of its products or services.  The more vertically integrated an organization, the more of the value chain they control.  There are benefits to vertical integration including the ability to more closely match supply and... [Read more of this review]

Business Process Driven BI – An Example

A quick example of how BI & BP (business process) should go hand in hand… Working with statisticians from Central Michigan University, we’ve jointly developed PVForecaster, a product that allows hospital administrators to forecast their patient volumes on an hour-by-hour, specialty-by-specialty basis.  Tactically, the result is better... [Read more of this review]

The best analysis puts you in control

It’s a great feeling helping a client understand their data and working with them to analyze it to get to an ‘a-ha’ moment.  Since Dataspace’s founding 15 years ago, our leaders have seen pretty much every technology that helps us help our clients.  And until recently, our CEO would comment, “they’re all pretty much the same.”  Well,... [Read more of this review]

Dataspace Profiled in “New” Newspaper

Last month Ann Arbor’s long established newspaper, the Ann Arbor News, shut down.  But, it was replaced with a web / twice weekly hard copy publication.  Little did I know that Dataspace would be one of the first companies profiled in the new business section.  To see what they have to say, click here. I, also, wanted to add a little ’subjective’,... [Read more of this review]

Selling Business Intelligence to the Business

Business executives already know our secret.  The best business intelligence systems are not about the system.  The best business intelligence systems are about the business.  Sometimes it’s up to us, as IT professionals, to remind ourselves of this reality.  When talking to a business executive, don’t use keywords like analytics, data mining... [Read more of this review]

Dataspace is now an Information Builders Partner!

Just a quick note here, a few weeks ago I wrote the IBI was a sensible player in the BI space that is sometimes overlooked in BI evaluations. Well, to follow that up, Dataspace has just joined the Information Builders (IBI) partner program. For more information, check out the link to the press release on our home page: www.dataspace.com.  Read More →

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