Jeff Jarvis on Tapping Social Media from BusinessWeek

Interesting video of an interview of Jeff Jarvis and author of What Would Google Do? about Social Media and how it should be seen. Check it out

IBM Building Analytics Clouds: new things and new innovation needs to happen

IBM is building analytics clouds it says will help its clients make better decisions and better utilize the data that is available to them.The analytics market is moving forward which also increases the competition and this is good for the end user clients. However, I hope that the consolidation of BI market does not kill innovation and crash the small innovative ISVs to flourish.

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Large Data Set Analysis in the Cloud: Amazon, Cloudera Improve Hadoop: New appraoch to BI and Data Warehousing?

Traditional business intelligence solutions can't scale to the degree necessary in today's data environment. One solution getting a lot of attention recently: Hadoop, an open-source product inspired by Google's search architecture. There has not been lots of innovation around data warehousing and business intelligence in the past 20 years and only time will tell when a new approach for data modeling will apprear in the horizon. This product - Hadoop - is not inspired by preexisting commerical BI or data warehousing products (such as Pentaho) but is based on a completely new approach.

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Some reasons why to participate in upcoming Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference

The upcoming Microsoft Worldwide Partner Confererence is held in New Orleans 13-16th of July, 2009. You can find enclosed a few comments from partners why to visit New Orleans.


Microsoft Partners on the Value of WPC

Microsoft BI Conference Update: maybe a biannual event in the future

I read today a feed on our web-site RSS feed that Microsoft is considering of changing the annual Microsoft BI conference as biannual and focus this year on TechEd (May 2009) and Worldwide Partner Conference (July 13-16, New Orleans). This is kind of surprising, but on the other hand the economy is doing what it is.. The update was done by Microsoft Senior Marketing Manager Nic Smith from the business intelligence solutions at Microsoft.. more from the blog...

Consolidation of business intelligence and planning markets: what does it mean for the end-user organizations

The recent decision by Microsoft to discontinue with the development of PerformancePoint Planning and PerformancePoint Server has created an interesting opportunity for budgeting- and forecasting solution providers. I have been in charge for building 2 budgeting/forecasting solutions in my past (as and independent software vendor) and I have to say I was very excited about PerformancePoint Planner. The decision was a big surprise to me as I truly believe the market is in need for a good consolidation package besides the more traditional Hyperion (Oracle) and also an interesting planning/budgeting package OutlookSoft that was acquired by SAP in May 2007. They had a good marketshare in this marketplace. This leaves not that many alternatives and my blog entry today that I read from CIO.com about the desire of end user organizations to buy one integrated package supports this aquisition spree. I just think it is sad as I do not think these large organizations can be in the forefront of innovation by any standards. We sold our company in 2004 (leader in iSeries/400 space) to a large company so I understand the motivation on acquistions/sales very well. Microsoft's decision and more information can be found in the blog from Microsoft.

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007: BI Worth the Price?

Microsoft PerformancePoint Server 2007 is a strong contender in the overall BI market and what makes Microsoft especially strong is that they include all three major pieces of analytics in one architecture: reporting, analytics and planning. I have had the chance to get exposed to this for a while now and with my almost 20 years of BI, I am impressed. With the consolidation wave in BI/data warehousing, I think Microsoft is a solution end user organizations should check out.read more digg story