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February 04, 2010

EIM - Where we lost the plot

Every one's been talking about "Enterprise" word, and BI is no exception. We all have been hearing and providing multiple roadmaps on Enterprise BI/Reporting, & agree that its not an easy nut to crack - multiple reasons attributed to it. Diversified business, products, customers, geographies organization operate globally, departmental goals and systems to support them never were built to hand shake. What this effectively boils down to is a huge data store which is there to sort our problems, but instead we got lost in trying to integrate, and make business/strategic sense out of this.

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February 03, 2010

Are you paying attention, or is it the other way around?

I was browsing through the net last week when I came across a research which claims that the average attention span of an internet user is dropping and is approximately 4 seconds currently.  Now that was a shocking statistic considering that if the users do not pay attention, then what is the point of millions of dollars of investments made by companies into rich website and online advertising?

I guess I wasn’t the first one to arrive at this conclusion. After a little more digging, I came across the concept of Attention Economy . Basically information on the web has exploded and the choice available to the end user is making it more and difficult for them to be able to filter out what they are really interested in. This affects both users looking for information they need as well as or organizations who are creating the information for you. So organizations have started to realize that your attention is becoming a scarce commodity and are willing to do anything and everything possible to grab it, maybe even pay for it. So what impact will this trend have on the space of Information management, especially portals, content management and search? Here are some thoughts:

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February 01, 2010

EIM – Mimicking our own "Human Nervous System"?

I have always been fascinated by the way –we ‘human’ – manage the information through our Nervous System. To explain further – We capture information through 5 basic senses (vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch), store it in brain, create various patterns of it and access it wherever needed. Hence, I believe, that we technology companies (product/services) are trying to 'mimic' human nervous system for Enterprise Information Management. And my opinion is that we should mimic it as it is evolved over million years and is foolproof. Believe me? Probably not, at least now.

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January 28, 2010

Analyzing Analytics

If your wife adds (if you are the lucky one) additional 1/2 tea spoon sugar in your bed tea, can you imagine what would be the impact on your blood sugar level and to maintain the ideal balance with calorie count how many extra steps you’ll be running. Mass penetration of internet and ever increasing health consciousness in society has ensured that everyone has easy access to appropriate diet charts and general health tips such as above are addressed to some extent. However, healthcare providers around the world who are facing the pressure of patients and healthcare authorities to improve quality care with no complications, seek an analytical solution to empower them with robust tool to analyze data and regularly identify patients at risk.

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January 25, 2010

Information Management Roadmap guidelines

You can notice Information Management (IM) space is quite hot these days.  There are multiple tools coming into the market to put the power of knowledge in the hands of business users.  These are also coming to the aid of IT Teams, in reducing their workloads, and enabling them to focus more on the data and information governance aspects.  But quite often we lose track of the important principles that we need to follow.  Albeit these are not quite difficult to follow, but are essential. 

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January 13, 2010

Advanced Analytics: An Intro

We have already gone thru a long cycle in IT, starting from application development, implementation of off-the-shelf applications, Datawarehouses and Business Intelligence applications.  Industry is focussed more on Analytics now.  Analytics take the top most in the BI Space, when it comes to kind of insights and the value it adds in decision making.

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Credit Crunch BI

Economic downturn has caused many upheavals in the Corporate world.  This also resulted in significant shift in Corporate priorities.  As you all know one of the first items to be trimmed happens to be the IT Budget.  This places tremendous pressure on the CIOs.  Most of the IT Surveys done in 2009 show that BI, Server virtualisation, ERPs, Portals and EAI are the top priorities for CIOs, in the same order.

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Information Access

These days there are many information access tools in the market.  Corporates use Reporting tools, Business Intelligence Tools, Interactive Visualisation tools, Search platforms to carryout their information access services.

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Vendor Spend Analytics

To remain competitive, companies are focusing heavily on reducing the costs and increasing the profits.  Some of the strategies adopted by companies are in Outsourcing manufacturing, taking up assembling only, or resorting to selling only.  Vendor Spend Analytics (VSA, in short) is a concept that focuses on reducing costs.

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January 08, 2010

Will Enterprise Mashups “mashup” the Enterprise?

I recently came across a very nice video explaining about enterprise mashups (Watch Video). All of us in IT know those mission critical projects with tight schedules, last minute problem solving with moving goalposts and suffering from the dreaded scope creep. So the image of having the users doing their stuff on their own while I’m relaxing in an armchair with a nice glass of wine is quite appealing. But will Enterprise Mashups get me there?

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