First off: wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that Business Intelligence (BI) requirements gathering was such a popular topic. I say this becuase since I wrote my first post on the subject, about 20% of this blog’s daily traffic comes to us via search strings related to BI requirements gathering. Clearly, people understand the importance –
Read More...I loved Bob Sutton’s distillation of Alan Webber’s new book, The Rules of Thumb: 52 Truths for Winning at Business Without Losing Yourself. Sutton’s favorite rules: #1. When the going gets tough, the tough relax. #10. A good question beats a good answer (This, by the way, is the reason the Nobel Prize winners often
Read More...Today we’re going to have to depart from the standard Friday anecdote + link fare, simply last night night was long and stupid and has injured my brain to the point where putting coherent sentences together is insanely difficult. I had all sorts of ideas brewing: to tell you about how we used to get
Read More...We had a huge response to our high-level discussion of what’s coming in the upcoming release of PeopleSoft Financials 9.1. Today, we will focus on PeopleSoft’s Asset Life Cycle Management (ALM) product line. If you have been reading any of our previous posts, you understand that the ALM suite consists of the following products: Asset
Read More...But don’t let the title fool you. I am not one of those Business Intelligence (BI) consultants who thoroughly bashes and discounts Excel. I think Excel is a flexible, powerful tool that has almost limitless uses and value. In fact, before becoming a convert to enterprise BI, I used Excel to create the world’s greatest
Read More...Maira Kalman for the NYTimes’s And the Pursuit of Happiness blog is featuring an exploration of Ben Franklin that everyone – yes, everyone – should take a few minutes to read and consider. It sits nicely at the intersection of poignant and beautiful. You’re seriously missing out if you don’t see the whole thing.
Read More...Apple PR: “Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished,
Read More...Here’s John Gruber with a poignant analysis of Microsoft’s current state of the union. No fanyboyism here, just some astute between-the-lines interpretation. Michael Pollan, one of my favorite authors, explains the strange juxtaposition of the decline of American household cooking and the rise of watching people cook on TV. I could not agree more
Read More...In the current economy, it goes without saying that companies are continually looking for options to improve their bottom line. And naturally, software vendors are more than happy to provide you the tools to achieve these results. I would like to take the time to discuss a couple of applications that truly deliver on that
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