BlogNotions BI Newsletter February, 2012

February 16, 2012

•	Five Things You Need to Know About Your Users Before You Deploy Business Intelligence
•	10 Really Good Reasons To Use Predictive Analytics
•	Data Security and Privacy: A Holistic Approach

Hubert Lee

Hubert Lee is one of the more colorful characters in the world of business intelligence. Known as “The Dashboard Spy”, Hubert boasts that he has the world’s largest collection of business intelligence system screenshots. An avid user experience expert, Hubert has designed business dashboards for many of the world’s largest companies. See full bio

Ken Chow

Ken Chow, Chief Marketing Officer at LogiXML, has more than 25 years of technology marketing experience. Before joining LogiXML, he was vice president of marketing at R2integrated, an Internet marketing and technology company See full bio

Andy Graham

Andy Graham is an independent consultant specialising in data and information architecture. See full bio

Noe Gutierrez

Noe Gutierrez is a highly accomplished Business Intelligence professional with domestic and international experience. See full bio

Patrick Husting

Patrick Husting is CEO and founder of the leading Business Intelligence Company, Extended Results. See full bio

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Mountains of Molehills by Patrick Husting

Fun infographic on media scare stories. source: ImageThink.net Read Original Post Read More | Comments

Look! by Ken Chow

One of the reasons I find the rise of visual analytics so fascinating is that it’s an area of technology that’s trying to better leverage human computation, rather than offload it, which has traditionally been the case. Consider one of the progenitors of all productivity software: the humble spreadsheet. Where would we be without their [...] Read More | Comments

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SAS BI Dashboard for Google Analytics Data by Hubert Lee

Rising star business intelligence blogger, Tricia Aanderud, is on fire with her SAS BI blog posts over at http://www.bi-notes.com/author/tricia. Her post today is quite excellent and worth reading through in detail. It’s available here at http://www.bi-notes.com/2012/02/dashboard-sas-bi-google-analytics-data. I’m cross-posted it here: Tricia Aanderud is SAS BI evangelist, enthusiastic innovator & hired gun, pursuing design tips, programming [...] Read More | Comments

Redundant Data by Andy Graham

Redundant data can be both a benefit and a problem to organisations but ultimately it means we have more data to manage. Some redundancy is clearly required for backups and optimisation reasons but unknown or inconsistent redundancy is a disaster. I would like to get some sense of the level of redundancy of data that exists [...] Read More | Comments

Transforming your organization from the inside-out by Noe Gutierrez

Dear readers, I know it has been a while since my last posting, but that is a good sign; it means that the Business Intelligence industry is still alive out there, even in these uncertain times. So, what is the occasion then? Well, if you have not guessed by the title, let me give me you another [...] Read More | Comments