Since “business analytics” has come into vogue, like all newly popular technologies, everyone is talking about it but few are defining what it is. In his inaugural article for the B-EYE-NETWORK, “Today’s ‘Analytic Applications’ — Misnamed and Mistargeted”, Merv Adrian argues that “analytic applications ought to be defined as those which use analysis to deliver […]

I was surprised to find the obvious reported as news today when I read Ted Cuzzillo’s latest article for TDWI’s newsletter BI This Week titled “The New Breed of BI Analyst.” I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised, because vendors and other organizations that support the business intelligence industry sometimes claim to have discovered something […]

If my experience is at all typical, you probably have a friend or relative who occasionally sends you emails like the one below, which I recently received. In reading it, you’ll find several logical errors, along with errors of other types that render it absurd and unreliable (and perhaps dishonest), regardless of your political affiliation. […]