How Powerful is IT Anymore?
In your eyes, how powerful is IT these days, especially as it relates to the bygone days of IT glory? I’m genuinely interested in your perspective.
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Business Intelligence and CPG/Retail
In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how to get the most value to their organizations from these systems. As with every industry vertical, there is some uniqueness to CPG/Retail market. I am very
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 7/2/10
Chances are nobody is reading this post because they are on a beach or heading up north or in the backyard setting up a homemade slip-n-slide with baby shampoo (heard that on the radio this morning), so I’ll spare you the silly prefatory babble and get right to the links that you might be able
Read More...‘The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be’
The future looks bright and innovative when you consider the latest wave in technology, which is cloud computing. But the more I learn, the more it seems like the future is what it used to be.
Read More...Another Common Customization in PeopleSoft Benefits Administration
Today, we’ll get a even deeper into the PeopleSoft Benefits Administration guts. (Please see my previous post for the first dive.) As mentioned before, the delivered functionality of the PeopleSoft setup tables and the Benefits Administration process can’t handle every aspect of the new-hire processing requirements. Another common issue is that not all employee benefits
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 6/25/10
In the middle of doing some heavy RFP work right now, so I won’t tell you the story about the time some guy lost his mind in a volleyball tournament and flipped a picnic table over onto the referee who was reffing his match. This was his way of disputing an out of bounds call.
Read More...BI Sidebar: Master Data Management and Data Quality
We have discussed previously the importance of data quality to business intelligence. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that topic here in this post. It is plainly obvious that your business intelligence will only be as good as the quality of your data; this, in turn, means the quality of business answers derived
Read More...Linkology: The Best of the Internet for 6/18/10
Today’s trawl from the depths of the Internet will be light, basically because I’ve been watching too much World Cup (how do you miss that direct kick, Germany?) and I really can’t think quite right (does Ronaldo hit the pitch anytime another molecule touches him?) and my attention to Internet nonsense is dwarfed by World
Read More...A Common Customization in PeopleSoft Benefits Administration
Today, we’ll get into some PeopleSoft Benefits Administration nerdery. Frequently, the delivered functionality of the PeopleSoft setup tables and the Benefits Administration process (don’t you just love COBOL?) can’t handle every aspect of the new-hire processing requirements. One common issue is that employees are given 30 days to enroll, while all the benefits become effective
Read More...MIPRO Workshop: Business Intelligence Requirements Gathering
If our server logs are credible, Business Intelligence requirements gathering continues to be one of the most highly searched terms and asked-about BI subjects that we encounter. We have authored several posts on this subject, including outlining at a high level the MIPRO approach to ensure business intelligence requirements are gathered and assessed appropriately. This
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