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John Santaferraro blogs about Business Intelligence and HP’s BI Portfolio
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It’s time for some dialogue. This blog is not just about my thoughts; it’s about your responses. What do you think about business intelligence? Where are things headed in our industry? What is missing? Leave me a comment and let’s talk about how to make the world of intelligence a better place.
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» STRAIGHT TALK: Simple business intelligence?
Is there such a thing? When I look at all of the things we have to do with data, everything we have to do with infrastructure, and everything we have to do with the people and organizations who work with information, I have a hard time believing simple....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Monday, April 21, 2008 at 4:27:00 PM
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» From operations to intelligence and back again
Almost every business I know would come to a screeching halt if we removed their operational business systems. Many would be out of business in a matter of days. When we make the move to operational business intelligence, the same thing will be true of business intelligence systems....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Wednesday, April 09, 2008 at 4:22:00 PM
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» Think again! Three BI Brain Teasers

Do you think you have a lot of data in your organization? Think again! With information doubling every 18 months, we are about to be hit with another wave of information more daunting than anything we’ve experienced to date....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Monday, February 25, 2008 at 1:29:00 PM
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» Intelligence That Makes a Difference

When I was at the Gartner BI Summit last week, I was on a panel with three other business intelligence vendors. Towards the end of the talk, I shared something that seemed to touch a chord with the audience.

I’ve heard 100 stories where business intelligence helps companies make a dollar. I’ve only heard a handful of stories where intelligence makes a difference....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 11:20:00 AM
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» LIVE from the Gartner BI Summit in Amsterdam
I’m here at the Gartner BI Summit in Amsterdam and excited about four things: 1) The number of people who are just now getting involved in business intelligence continues to grow; 2) the drive toward operational business intelligence is almost universal, everyone is talking about it...
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Tuesday, February 05, 2008 at 9:39:00 AM
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» The Googlization of Information

Does anyone remember VITAL? I was thinking about it just the other day. The two original founders of my start up company, Marty Moseley and Subhash Chowdary, lived by it and infected me with the vision back in the early 90’s. It stands for Virtually Integrated Technical Architecture Lifecycle. It was brilliant!

VITAL provided a definition of the internet, data warehousing, business intelligence, and service oriented architecture before any of those terms had been coined....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Friday, February 01, 2008 at 1:22:00 AM
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» The Digital Intelligence Revolution

Everything has gone digital. Music. Advertising. Documents. Art. Data. Photography. Economy. Community. Politics. Movies. Telephone. Voice. Television. Imaging. Internet. Video. And now Intelligence.

The “intelligence worker” used to download volumes of data from databases as a primary source of insight. Today that same worker searches through data, reports, analytics, digitized documents, and text....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 at 10:40:00 AM
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» This reminds me of the 60’s!

Yes, I was alive in the 60’s. And yes, blogging reminds me of the 60’s. I was just up in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco a few weeks ago and I reminisced about the free concerts, sit-ins, and general feeling of openness and community that used to thrive on the edge of Golden Gate Park. I always loved the view from Buena Vista Park and felt like something was happening in this place on top of the city, where you could see the world....
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Posted by John Santaferraro on Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 1:06:00 AM
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