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

CIO Business Intelligence

It went on an acquisition spree in the early 2000s, driving up its revenue, before being swallowed itself by Hewlett-Packard in 2011, in a deal that valued it at over $10 billion. May 2011: Autonomy sneaks in one last acquisition, of online backup service Iron Mountain Digital, for $380 million. 19, 2011, and Nov.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly on Data

From 2000 to 2011, the percentage of US adults using the internet had grown from about 60% to nearly 80%. Starting around 2011, advertising, which once framed the organic results and was clearly differentiated from them by color, gradually became more dominant, and the signaling that it was advertising became more subtle.

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Network as a Service (NaaS), Sustainability, and the Circular Economy

CIO Business Intelligence

Additionally, as sustainability requirements increase, including the need to quantify environmental, social and governance (ESG) programs, IT organizations will rely on vendor partners to provide them with key metrics for sustainability and environmental reporting such as power usage, carbon emissions, and end-of-life disposal metrics (e.g.,

Metrics 98
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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.

Metrics 156
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What is ITIL? Your guide to the IT Infrastructure Library

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2011, another update — dubbed ITIL 2011 — was published under the Cabinet Office. The five volumes remained, and ITIL 2007 and ITIL 2011 remained similar. Corporations and public sector organizations that have successfully implemented ITIL best practices report huge savings. How does ITIL reduce costs?

IT 105
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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

FBe's recommendation was (paraphrasing a 35 min talk): Don't invent new metrics, use online versions of Reach and GRPs to measure success. Because we don't understand the uniqueness, we fall back on profoundly sub-optimal old world metrics like Reach or Online GRP equivalents. Metrics are a problem.

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Google Analytics Custom Reports: Paid Search Campaigns Analysis

Occam's Razor

Every Analysis Ninja knows that standard reports are lame. Custom reports on the other hand are, well, hand crafted by you for a specific purpose with a set of guiding principles (" Acquisition, Behavior, Outcomes! ") that ensure that they don't so much deliver data as much as deliver insights.

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