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AI vs. BI for Business, What Do You Need?

Jet Global

Bloomberg economist Michael McDonough has tracked companies mentioning ‘artificial intelligence’ on earnings calls since 2008 and has found that while the number of mentions has ballooned, the actual applications have not 1. So what can AI actually do?

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Data Mining – useful or not?

Jen Stirrup

One particular technology which is good for summarising and aggregating data is called OLAP (On Line Analytical Processing). Microsoft offers Data Mining at no extra cost as part of SQL Server 2005 and 2008, which is geared towards the average Excel user. To add this post to Twitter, please click here. appeared first on Jen Stirrup.