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Observations on business intelligence, analytics, and integration technology that aligns systems and people with corporate strategy
May 07, 2012
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Rado Kotorov
The biggest secret in the BI industry is that IT and the business are at war.  Business users perceive IT as a bottleneck, while IT views business users as technically ignorant and not mindful...
April 24, 2012
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Rado Kotorov
  Politicians understand the importance of understanding the feelings of voters on key topics. What matters is not only whether voters are for or against a particular issue, but also how...
April 12, 2012
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Jake Freivald
Derrick Harris at GigaOm had an interesting post yesterday, talking about "How the cloud could bring big data to your local deli". Yes, I think the title is hyperbolic, but probably not by much. Here...
April 09, 2012
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Rado Kotorov
I just returned from the Gartner BI conference in LA. This is the premier BI event, where analysts, vendors, and existing and new BI users discuss industry trends, best practices, emerging...
April 05, 2012
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Jon M. Deutsch
Caught in the middle of a crisis, the financial industry is under increasing pressure to comply with new, demanding regulations. While the process of regulatory reform may be currently moving...
April 02, 2012
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Terri White
I sat down with Michael Corcoran, SVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Information Builders, for a little Q&A on what’s behind the  integrated messaging that was unveiled recently on...
March 12, 2012
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Kathleen Moran
Did you know that it’s been more than 50 years since IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn first defined business intelligence (BI)? Or that its been more than ten years since we launched iWay Software? We...
February 22, 2012
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Kathleen Moran
Today Integration Developer News featured the success story of our customer, Scotiabank. Scotiabank is using iWay to improve efficiency and customer loyalty while increasing revenue. In fact, the...
February 16, 2012
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Jake Freivald
The BI Magic Quadrant that Gartner published last week is pretty interesting. (You can download it here.) Of course, we vendors like to see it from a competitive basis, and that's interesting too --...
February 15, 2012
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Jake Freivald
Gartner published the new Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms last week. We're proud to be a leader, and it's really interesting to read all of the strengths and cautions of the...