tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-350510772011-04-21T14:31:13.898-07:00Thoughts and musings on business intelligence and the plethora of tools, technologies and methodologies that exist to solve our lack of intelligence problemsAli Sareeanoreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35051077.post-48854824521648656672009-03-05T09:08:00.000-08:002009-03-05T09:35:56.683-08:00

The goal of any KPI/dashboard initiative should be more than identifying the key metrics but also rationalizing and socializing the semantics and calculation methodologiesThere is always talk about having a single version of the truth as part of BI/Dashboard initiatives but the key point that is often forgotten is that it is merely a "version" and in most businesses there are always multiple

Ali Sareeanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35051077.post-24086212778063508022008-10-13T15:02:00.000-07:002008-10-13T15:16:22.374-07:00

I think a lot of organizations struggle to measure the quality of the IT organization. IT systems are installed at most businesses to improve the quality of transactional business processes, but I have rarely seen effective systems to improve the quality of IT processes that support those business processes.A lot of times IT organizations react to poor quality by adding bureacratic governanance

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Recently, there have been several exciting products released in the BI space around data visualization and optimization to handle sophisticated information challenges. However, I have been surprised that there are no software products or technologies to help with something as fundamental as data validation for data warehouses. Most of the projects that I have encountered end up spending an

Ali Sareeanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35051077.post-49887170718285564932008-07-12T06:15:00.001-07:002008-07-12T06:32:41.456-07:00

I learned about some intriguing new technology recently that drives the data backbone for Yahoo and Google. Highly parallel distributed computing, based on functional programming techniques of recursion.http://labs.google.com/papers/mapreduce.htmlThere is also an open source version.http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HadoopMapReduceI have always been intrigued about the advances in crawlers for

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Good blog http://www.kaushik.net/avinash/

Ali Sareeanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35051077.post-87697726705017923522007-04-02T17:28:00.000-07:002007-04-02T17:44:24.504-07:00

Sometimes looking at the data can drive a culture change in an organization that is even tougher to implement than the analytics tool itself. If an organization practices cost buildup or cost plus pricing, transforming it to a value based or list discounted price is like moving the titanic.The nature of such organizations is generally decentralized, where sales and sourcing are controlled by the

Ali Sareeanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35051077.post-1159280890063805942006-09-26T07:27:00.000-07:002006-09-26T07:28:10.063-07:00

Ran across this neat concept on using swarm intelligence / genetic algorithms to make decisions based on imperfect information. A much more eloquent description is available on http://www.technologyreview.com/read_article.aspx?id=17397&ch=infotechor straight to the sourcehttp://www.icosystem.com/hunch.htmI still believe that there will be a point where computing will create an answer to the

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