Analytical functionality integrated with existing and deployed business applications such as Enterprise Resource Planning or Customer Relationship Management applications is referred to as Embedded Analytics or Embedded Business Intelligence (BI).
In my view, that BI & Analytics contribute to organizational performance with three different levels of importance. Tier 1: Business Metrics — Are we contributing to profitable revenue growth? Tier 2: User Productivity — Are we impacting the user productivity? Tier 3: IT Productivity — Are we more efficient in our IT operations? In this… Continue reading Business Intelligence & Analytics Tier 2 Performance User Productivity
Issue 10 of Today’s Software Magazine has an article on “Going Agile” that provides an overview of the content of the book, excerpts related to cost management in agile projects, and do’s and don’ts on going agile. I will present the content of the article on on 04-April-2013 @ 19:30 .
Today, Federico Bellani released his research on the Adoption and Evolution of Agile Method Practices. The research is an extensive litature review supported by survey results from 194 worldwide participants and extensive survey analysis. Some of his findings on agile practices fall inline with the results from the VersionOne annual survey on the state of… Continue reading Federico Bellani on “Adoption and Evolution of Agile Practices Over Time”
At the “…even mammoths can be agile” conference…, I presented on using some of the practices described in Going agile Project Management Practices to help with the challenges and problems faced in agile projects.
In my view, that BI & Analytics contribute to organizational performance with three different levels of importance.
“Projects too often get too big to succeed.”
On February 5th, Gartner released the Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics Platforms. First, they have updated the name of the report to add analytics to the BI platforms report. Gartner explains,
In January 2013, David Stodder from TDWI Research issued the report Achieving Greater Agility with Business Intelligence. The report was based upon the results from 408 survey respondents, interviews, vendor briefings, and other TDWI research reports.TDWI provides education and research in the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) industry. The following are some data… Continue reading TDWI Reports On Agile BI/Analytic Facts And Recommendations
On February 8, 2013, Service Performance Insight (SPI) released the 2013 Professional Services Maturity(tm) Benchmark. The report analyzes data from 234 organizations and 55,000 consultants that participated in a 2013 survey, and comparative data from five years of past survey data. SPI is a global research, consulting and training company.