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  • Jaspersoft and Co-Opetition with AWS

    September 13, 2013

    Business
    Asia, AWS, Business intelligence, Cognos, Data Warehousing, Jaspersoft, Redshift, Windows Azure
     

    Last year, when AWS announced its Data Warehousing service, RedShift, there was much interest from the punditry as to what it meant for the existing companies offering similar services built on top of AWS infrastructure. One of those vendors,…

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  • Chartio Plus Cloud Data Warehouses – Not Your Grandma’s BI

    July 24, 2013

    Business
    Amazon Redshift, BigQuery, Business intelligence, Chartio, Data warehouse, GitHub, Google Analytics, MySQL
     

    Traditional business intelligence (BI) is a real dog of a thing – big metal storage, heavy applications, long delay times and serious amounts of data wrangling are regular themes when it comes to running an enterprise BI project. The…

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  • Core Business System Integration – Focus on UX, Not Data

    June 12, 2013

    Business
    Application programming interface, Business, Business intelligence, Customer Data Integration, Customer relationship management, Data integration, Scribe, Systems integrator
     

    I was pinged the other day by Scribe (more about them here) – the company is delivering a new take on data integration, making it quicker and easier for non technical folks. Anyway, Scribe has just done a “State…

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  • EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

    May 16, 2013

    Business
    Big data, Business intelligence, Crunchbase, Databases, Equinix, intacct, Netflix, Sales
     

    Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple…

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  • Chart.io Goes GA, Lots of New Partnerships

    November 13, 2012

    Business
    Business intelligence, chart.io, Chartio, google, Google Analytics, MySQL, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL
     

    I spent some time yesterday talking to Chart.io, a company laser-focused on being an interface for organizational data. That’s a complex way of saying that Chart.io aims to take raw data out of different applications and databases and give…

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  • Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

    August 28, 2012

    Business
    AppExchange, Business intelligence, Databases, Indicee, Salesforce Chatter, Salesforce.com, Social enterprise, yammer
     

    I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always…

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  • Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

    August 15, 2012

    Business
    Apache Hadoop, Big data, Business intelligence, Data warehouse, MapReduce, RainStor, SQL, wikipedia
     

    Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data…

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  • Allena Aims to Deliver Plain English BI Insights for Salesforce Users

    August 6, 2012

    Business
    Business intelligence, Force.Com, GoodData, google, Plain English, Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, YouCalc
     

    Recently I received an email from Saqib Waqar, CEO of Allena, an interesting new vendor in the “plain English BI” space. Waqar comes from an ERP background having created custom ERP solutions for several customers. Waqar made contact after…

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Papers

The Future of ERP – Moving at the Speed of Change

If we look back a generation, business tended to be static. While it is undeniable that innovation occurred, it tended to at a much slower pace. While Henry Ford’s manufacturing and distribution models certainly marked disruption for the horse and buggy industry, this was a change that took decades.

Channel Strategies for Success in the Cloud Age

Cloud Computing is perhaps one of the biggest shifts in the technology industry in a generation. Alongside the technology shifts involved in Cloud, there is also a significant change in the way technology will be supplied, implemented and delivered going forward. While this shift offers real benefits to consumers in terms of reduced costs and increased agility

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Ben Kepes is a business leader, a technology evangelist, an entrepreneur, and a commentator. Ben covers the convergence of business and technology.

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