Financing the BI Project: Custom or Packaged? Which Solution is Best?
This series has to date been looking at various options that exist for implementing your Business Intelligence solution. Today we look at some insights on which type of solution is best. For Business Intelligence which type of solution is best will ultimately depend on individual business circumstances. The solution type assessment that has been discussed [...]
Financing the Business Intelligence Project (Buy or Build?)
In order to finance the project it is necessary to decide how the underlying Data Warehouse is to be created. This means the Project Board will need to decide: Whether to use a ready-made solution or have it custom built What degree of external staffing resources are required This is the first part in a [...]
The Changing World of Business Communications
From the dawn of human history we have communicated to each other. The requirement to trade and barter is perhaps one of the original primitive desires that drove us to improve our ability to communicate, to improve the number of words used etc. Speech is undoubtedly our first means of communication in history. We have [...]
Emergance: Are we Ready for Growth?
As we emerge from these current economic troubles then corporate development budgets will get reinstated, yet one thing that the future does hold is conservative spending plans. Senior management has become acutely tuned into many former wasted expenditures that will not be allowed to recur. Maximizing resources and aggressively planing for the future are likely [...]
The Interplay of Social Media, Business Intelligence, and Cost Effectiveness
Social Media, Business Intelligence, and Cost Effectiveness are three major business issues that are rarely put together in the same sentence. Yet all do have a role to play in improving business results. From the ability to leverage Social Media as a Marketing and Customer Services tool that allows our business to communicate more effectively. [...]
Your IT Department – To be disposed of? Or a Necessary Change Agent?
I have heard recently several comments that an IT department should be dismantled as a department and assigned to every other part of the corporation. If there were only a single source suggesting this then I would name and shame them here, but sadly there are many who persist with this errant vision. I also [...]
Free: How Can Free Digital Services Make Money?
Is there something missing in the on-line concept of free? There is a view that everything on-line should be free. The New York Times introduced their on-line news totally free, yet The Times (from London) actually charges an on-line subscription and there is additional benefit provided to the reader. Which is the right model? Perhaps [...]
Do More with Le$$
The need to make wide cuts has probably been on the top of more agendas over the last 12 months than at any time in the memory. ‘When will it stop?’ I can hear many a manager ask. It seems to matter little what department you work with the cuts are plain to see. Yet [...]
Don’t Set Aside the ROI in Building your Social Media Solution.
Over the past few years I have gone through a personal discovery process in respect of the use of Social Media within the workplace. What used to be almost universally banned as a diversion from real work is now becoming demanded within the workplace. It has become evident that social medial is no longer simply [...]
Unified Data Centre Infrastructure – a look at a new technology!
When I read that a Unified Data Centre Infrastructure can reduce costs and improve the management of the data centre then I was certainly interested to find out more. Solutions are available from at least two vendors, Cisco and Brocade. One thing that is always important to identify are the expected benefits and potential risks [...]
IT Roles that can Drive Cost Reduction?
Baseline magazine has just published its “5 Keys to Reducing IT Costs”. Since I have been discussing Cost Effective IT on this site I thought it important to take note and comment. Baseline’s 5 keys: □ Architecture □ Planning □ Vendor Management □ Relationship Management □ Demand Management Architecture is important in building an effective [...]
Have we changed IT spending priorities?
In the current climate corporations are nervous about spending any money. Keeping the status quo is very high on the agenda. However there are always changes that need to be made. Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) should definitely be high on the priority list. It is not about crystal ball gazing, but [...]
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