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October 14 BI Scorecard & Fractals & Project 10 to 100thI don't see many companies running comparative exercises as to which toolset would best suite their organisation these days - must be a reflection of industry maturity and/or the intricate vendor relationships that currently exist along with some consolidation of software accounts.
I have stated previously that there are the Forrester, TDWI and Gartner sites that offer product comparions - for a price - but the one that has always stood out has been http://www.biscorecard.com/evaluations.asp#BO.
Cindy deserves some recognition, not only for her consistant net presence and posts, but for providing a Blank Scorecard for those unable to purchase a pre-loaded comparative scorecard!
Fractals for the pure Maths and Stats beings http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/
Entries Close on 10th October http://www.project10tothe100.com/index.html
October 13 Excel on Steroids? Gemini seems to be the topic of the day and it raises ye age olde debate of the so called 'runaway power user' - Chris has a pretty good overview http://cwebbbi.spaces.live.com/
I have never been one for trying to diminish the possiblities of the desktop analyst, and/or trying to herd everyone into a DWH enclosure as the most analytical people in an organisation should be enabled in every way possible. The only focus should be on ensuring that there be some governance and expanded insight into what they're doing so as to ensure continuity and correctness.
Not sure what the Gemini and MS 2010 implications are for the likes of http://www.jedox.com/en/enterprise-spreadsheet-server/excel-olap-server/palo-server.html and the enterprise excel server endeavors.
Take a break: http://www.alientiles.com/ October 12 Stats & OSS (Open Source Stats) Most generic BI tools are not very statistical orientated, and rightly so as statistical calculations rely on a tight integration with the RDBMS. Now that the RDBMS vendors such as Oracle and MS are heavily investing in DWH, BI, Reporting components of their own, it will be interesting to see if they stick to traditional / generic information delivery options, provide a stat's stack or focus more on industry specific solutions that require statistical formulae of a more complex level.
There are a few companies that tend to specialise more on the stats front - SAS being the most known - but there's an interesting discussion as to leveraging stats AND soa http://boulderbibraintrust.org/brain_trust_blog/2008/10/spotfile-does-data-viz.php - the key comment being the interaction with the big vendors such as Cognos and BO etc.
Intro to the S language http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/slanguage.html
Comparison of SAS, SPSS, R packages and functions http://rforsasandspssusers.com/
Open Source Stats http://circa.europa.eu/irc/dsis/oss/info/data/en/statistical.html
Aside - supported MS components with virtual servers http://bisqlserver.blogspot.com/ October 08 BI, DWH, CRM etc Links - Mother of All .. |
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