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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

May 2007: Autonomy spins off its Blinkx consumer software unit in an IPO. July 2007: Autonomy pays $375 million for content archiving and electronic discovery specialist Zantaz. October 2007: Autonomy acquires data management specialist Meridio for £20 million. September 2011: HP fires Apotheker, naming Meg Whitman CEO.

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Five Strategies for Slaying the Data Puking Dragon.

Occam's Razor

Your recent audit of the output of your analytics organization found that 160 analytics reports are delivered every month. Your digital performance dashboard has 16 metrics along 9 dimensions, and you know that the font-size 6 text and sparkline sized charts make them incomprehensible. Focus only on KPIs, eliminate metrics.

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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

Later, the ITIL Refresh Project in 2007 consolidated the ITIL to five volumes consisting of 26 process and functions — this is referred to as the ITIL 2007 edition. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar. In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office.

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

The following are some of the key business use cases that highlight this need: Trade reporting – Since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators have increased their demands and scrutiny on regulatory reporting. You can run a direct query from QuickSight for BI reporting and dashboards.

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How Finance is Leveraging Automated Data Lineage for Regulations Compliance

Octopai

The worldwide economy was shaken in 2007 when the United States stock market had its largest drop since the Great Depression. In 2007 many high-risk sectors of the financial industry such as hedge funds, depended on complex data. These regulations required quarterly risk-evaluation reports. Download the Whitepaper.

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The Lean Analytics Cycle: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act

Occam's Razor

To win in business you need to follow this process: Metrics > Hypothesis > Experiment > Act. We are far too enamored with data collection and reporting the standard metrics we love because others love them because someone else said they were nice so many years ago. That metric is tied to a KPI.

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BI Data Lineage Solutions: Your Trusted Guide For Success

Octopai

Actually, effective data lineage delivers important enhancements to BI and enables informed decision-making , as it enables data teams to tackle numerous use cases such as regulatory compliance, system upgrades & migrations, M&A (system consolidation), reporting inaccuracies, business changes etc.