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

CIO Business Intelligence

January 2009: Autonomy buys enterprise content management vendor Interwoven for $775 million. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. Lynch is among them, for “failure to meet agreed performance goals, including financial metrics.” Whitman hires PricewaterhouseCoopers to investigate.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

Pertinence and fidelity of metrics developed from Data. Metrics are seldom reliant on just one data element, but are often rather combinations. For example: Is this a good way to define New Business Growth? Do we need to take account of pricing changes between Repeat Business this year and last year?

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

Using business intelligence and analytics effectively is the crucial difference between companies that succeed and companies that fail in the modern environment. Experience the power of Business Intelligence with our 14-days free trial! Why Is Business Intelligence So Important?

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5 + 4 Actionable Tips To Kick Web Data Analysis Up A Notch, Or Two

Occam's Razor

Usually you don't need a complicated multi year data warehousing effort with expensive business intelligence tools to buy. PALM: People Against Lonely Metrics]. So why not your metrics? This is the problem with lonely metrics. Why not find a BFF for your lonely metric and present something like this.

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A Picture Paints a Thousand Numbers

Peter James Thomas

The single red line shows the actual value of some metric up to the middle section of the chart. A further example is contained in Limitations of Business Intelligence. The inimitable Randall Munroe of xkcd.com [7] explains this pithility as follows: | © Randall Munroe, xkcd.com (2009) | Excerpted from: Extrapolating |.

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