Using multiple business intelligence tools in an implementation – Part I
The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI™) 2.0 Introduction This post follows on from a question that was asked on the LinkedIn.com Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI™) 2.0 group. Unfortunately the original...
View Article“Big vs. Small BI” by Ann All at IT Business Edge
Introduction Back in February, Dorothy Miller wrote a piece at IT Business Edge entitled, Measuring the Return on Investment for Business Intelligence. I wrote a comment on this, which I...
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As always any LinkedIn.com links require you to be a member of the site and the group links require you to be a member of the group. In recent weeks, I have posted two pieces relating how a discussion...
View Article“Why Business Intelligence projects fail”
Introduction In this blog, I have generally tried to focus on success factors for Business Intelligence programmes. I suppose this reflects my general character as something of an optimist. Of course...
View ArticleRunning before you can walk
Prelude… I have been back blogging for a few days, so it is well past time for a rock climbing-related post. Though this site being what it is, I’ve twisted this thought round to apply to the world of...
View ArticleFeasibility studies continued…
A2 pulley injuries. Partial tear (left) and complete tear (right). Images © Eric J. Horst, via http://www.nicros.com Back in May 2009 I wrote about The importance of feasibility studies in business...
View ArticleBusiness Sponsorship
Strong business sponsorship is generally cited as a major success factor for IT projects. From one perspective this is essentially a truism, but looking at the phrase from a different angle perhaps...
View ArticleIncremental Progress and Rock Climbing
Introduction Last week Ovum and @SarahBurnett were kind enough to invite me to speak at their Business Intelligence Masterclass in London. Unfortunately one of the Ovum presenters, Madan Sheina, was...
View ArticleProjects
At the risk of over-extending the business metaphor offered by rock climbing (and the even greater risk of boring readers who don’t have the slightest interest in my climbing rehabilitation), here is a...
View ArticleAn informed decision
A friend and fellow information professional is currently responsible for both building a new data warehouse and supporting its predecessor, which is based on a different technology platform. In these...
View ArticleIndiana Jones and The Anomalies of Data
One of an occasional series [1] highlighting the genius of Randall Munroe. Randall is a prominent member of the international data community and apparently also writes some sort of web-comic as a side...
View Article20 Risks that Beset Data Programmes
This article draws extensively on elements of the framework I use to both highlight and manage risks on data programmes. It has its genesis in work that I did early in 2012 (but draws on experience...
View ArticleIdeas for avoiding Big Data failures and for dealing with them if they happen
In August 2016, I read an article by Paul Barsch (@paul_a_barsch), who at the time was Teradata‘s Marketing Director for Big Data Consulting Services [1]. I have always had a lot of time for Paul’s...
View ArticleA truth universally acknowledged…
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that an organisation in possession of some data, must be in want of a Chief Data Officer” — Growth and Governance, by Jane Austen (1813) [1] I wrote about...
View ArticleA Retrospective of 2017’s Articles
This article was originally intended for publication late in the year it reviews, but, as they [1] say, the best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men gang aft agley… In 2017 I wrote more articles [2] than in...
View ArticleA Retrospective of 2018’s Articles
This is the second year in which I have produced a retrospective of my blogging activity. As in 2017, I have failed miserably in my original objective of posting this early in January. Despite...
View ArticleWhy do data migration projects have such a high failure rate?
Similar to its predecessor, Why are so many businesses still doing a poor job of managing data in 2019? this brief article has its genesis in the question that appears in its title, something that I...
View ArticlePut our Knowledge and Writing Skills to Work for you
As well as consultancy, research and interim work, peterjamesthomas.com Ltd. helps organisations in a number of other ways. The recently launched Data Strategy Review Service is just one example....
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