There are many strengths of the blog format, however one weakness is its focus on the recent at the expense of the relevant. This section of the site seeks to remedy this problem by providing a grouped list of what I am going to call Keynote Articles.
There are a lot of different articles on this blog. Some are to do with new functionality that is available; some are brief notes about what I have been up to, or am planning to do; some link to news elsewhere on the Internet, most often with some commentary from me. Keynote Articles are what is left. That is original pieces written by me based on my own experience and expertise. These types of articles form the meat of this site.
I have tried to group these Keynote Articles into general areas, with some pieces appearing in more than one place. Inside each area, the entries appear in chronological order, i.e. the reverse of the main blog.
| 5. Industry Commentary | |||
| This is a new category, created given the number of articles I have written recently about SAS and the Oracle / Sun Microsystems link-up. | |||
| Article | Vendor(s) | ||
| • | Google mail problems | ||
| • | Business Analytics vs Business Intelligence | SAS | |
| • | A review of “The History of Business Intelligence” by Nic Smith | Microsoft | |
| • | A business intelligence parable | SAS | |
| • | The Apologists | SAS | |
| • | The Dictatorship of the Analysts | SAS | |
| • | Mergers and value | Oracle, Sun, IBM |
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| • | Combinatorics | Oracle, Sun, IBM, Microsoft |
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| • | The Register’s take on Microsoft and Oracle / Sun | Oracle, Sun, Microsoft |
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| • | “Why do CFOs and CEOs hate IT? – ERP” – Thomas Wailgum at CIO.com | ERP | |
| • | More problems for Googlemail | ||
| • | Automating the business intelligence process? | Balanced Insight | |
| • | Using multiple business intelligence tools in an implementation | Cognos | |
| 6. Social Media | |
| Another new section reflecting my increasing focus on this area. | |
| • | A first for me… |
| • | A question of Twitter etiquette |
| • | A recording of me being interviewed by Brian Roger of SmartDataCollective.com |
| • | Accuracy |
| • | New Adventures in Wi-Fi – Track 1: Blogging |
I will attempt to keep this page up-to-date as I post new content.
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