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In July 2007 I wrote a blog entry called Business Intelligence, what is it and what is it not? which turned into a bit of a rant about how Business Intelligence (BI) is perceived today. The main point that I was trying to make was that BI isn’t about tools and technology, its simply about bringing useful information to those that need it. I’ve ...

I've blogged on the benefits of bringing together BI and UCD before (User Centred Design and Business Intelligence), and how this can be used to differentiate us from the crowd.  Recently we've been involved in delivering a proof of concept BI application, against two other contenders in the BI marketplace.  Our approach was to focus on ...

Traditional BI was all about numbers, charts and reports and it's been replaced by super whizzy dashboards that promise the earth but may or may not deliver value.  BI applications, along with email, are probably the only system that senior executives of companies actually use.  As such they have visibility that's unrivalled from other ...

Traditional BI is about numbers, charts and reports right?  Big mainframe reporting systems using Focus or SAS, or even COBOL (those were the days, PIC S9(9) COMP-3, happy memories!!). Or early implementations of Microstrategy or Business Objects that looked good in their day, but seem out of place now. The trend with technology companies ...