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Dresner’s Point: Ready for the “2014ization” of Business Intelligence?

Howard Dresner

What is your organization planning to try to achieve in 2014? Will it have legs in 2014, I asked? Here at Dresner Advisory Services we’ll publish a report on our first Wisdom of Crowds® Market Study on Location Intelligence in February 2014. I’d love to know what plans and aspirations your company has for 2014.

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Fear has Replaced Apathy as the Number One Enemy of Data

Jim Harris

Background: “Apathy is the enemy of data quality”. I began work on data quality in the late 1980s at the great Bell Laboratories. This led me to conclude, by about 2000, that apathy was the number one enemy of data quality. I especially wanted to identify industries that were ripe for data quality.

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6 Case Studies on The Benefits of Business Intelligence And Analytics

datapine

As Dan Jeavons Data Science Manager at Shell stated: “what we try to do is to think about minimal viable products that are going to have a significant business impact immediately and use that to inform the KPIs that really matter to the business”. 5) Find improvement opportunities through predictions. 6) Smart and faster reporting.