Data & Intelligence

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Why Business Intelligence Fails—And How to Practise It as a Discipline

6 February 2018 / 7 minutes of reading

If you want to deliver Business Intelligence (BI), you need to understand what it actually is. Unfortunately the industry is […]

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Data & Intelligence

Natural Language BI Tools: Cortana and the Hidden Risks

6 August 2015 / 3 minutes of reading

Cortana Analytics has just been announced with much fanfare. No need for technical know-how. No need to understand the data model. Just ask, and it shall be revealed.

It’s seductive. But it’s also dangerous.

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Big data – bad, bad data!

1 January 2014 / 4 minutes of reading

Ah, big data! Cloud computing is so 2012! Last year’s [2013] buzzword was big data, and there is a lot