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Will the iPad Revolutionize An...

Will the iPad Revolutionize Analytics?
Rarely has a product announcement been as anticipated, hyped, and speculated upon as much as Apple’s launch of the iPad last week. One would have thought the device had the potential to cure world hunger and put an astronaut on Mars at the...

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Is Search Merging with BI?
Endeca has made a name for itself in “guided navigation” search (well, not a household name — it was recently called, “one of the larger software companies in Boston that no one has ever really heard about”). It serves...

2010 Looking Good for Analytic...

2010 Looking Good for Analytics
2010 is going to be a good year for analytics, if the survey of International Institute for Analytics members is any indication. 90% say analytics will have a greater impact on their organizations’ strategies in the coming year. 52% believe they...

Intuition vs. Evidence-based D...

Intuition vs. Evidence-based Decisions
Ah, it is as old as the chicken-and-egg debate: when is intuition your best guide and when should data drive your decisions? Enterprise 2.0 guru and Principal Research Scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management Andrew McAfee recently weighed...
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Endeca has made a name for itself in “guided navigation” search (well, not a household name — it was recently called, “one of the larger software companies in Boston that no one has ever really heard about”). It serves online retailers by helping them make their products...
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Paul Wilmott, in a recent New York Times editorial, put forth the argument that financial trading by algorithm has gotten so fast that it threatens to bring down the entire system: “If a fall in the market leads to people selling according to some formula, and if there are enough of these people...
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2010 is going to be a good year for analytics, if the survey of International Institute for Analytics members is any indication. 90% say analytics will have a greater impact on their organizations’ strategies in the coming year. 52% believe they can achieve the impact with the same level of spending,...
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Rarely has a product announcement been as anticipated, hyped, and speculated upon as much as Apple’s launch of the iPad last week. One would have thought the device had the potential to cure world hunger and put an astronaut on Mars at the same time. While the iPad met with many oohs-and-ahhhs,...