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Month: April 2009
Blog Cat on Bloggers
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The divided world of Business Intelligence
The world of business intelligence is divided between the haves and have not – the want to be and the could bees.
Divided between camps of open Source and closed source
.Microsoft alliances versus IBM alliances with SAP alliances and Oracle alliances. Jostling like knights at King Arthur’s tables. Writers in the BI blogosphere are trapped in exclusive arrangements, their own quest for intellectual satisfaction and the inherent frenzy at which technology changes faster than you can say the word “ Cloud manifesto”. There are BeYe network, Intelligent Enterprise ,CIO world , Company Blogs at SUN, IBM and SAS, superbly written individual blogs , blog aggregators -some of whom do share their knowledge out.But some don’t.
And the customer is confused- where is the intelligence in a divided business intelligence world.
BI Customers in a Recession
A customer is the most important visitor on our premises,
he is not dependent on us.
We are dependent on him.
He is not an interruption in our work. He is the purpose of it.
He is not an outsider in our business. He is part of it.
We are not doing him a favor by serving him. He is doing us a favor by giving us an opportunity to do so.
Mahatma Gandhi –
And why do 1/3 rd of BI installs go wrong and what customer protection is there in an industry that allows 1/3 rd of installs to give negative ROI.
Divided we bill is better than united we serve.
Author- These are my Personal Views only.
Offshoring and Technology
The world is getting flat. Despite Microsoft ‘s attempts to reduce Indian h1 visa holders by sending some of them home – and then remote working from there. Who needs immigration when you can work at a low cost location near your family using Skype, PayPal ,and a secure remote desktop.Nobody reminding you that you are two shades lighter and your cost is lower so you should charge lower rates. Like charge less than an illegal Mexican immigrant sweeping the garbage.You don’t need health care in India, you fall sick there are tens of millions others hungrier and younger who will work at 5 $ /hour lower than you would.or 5 $ a hour lower than the Mexican janitor would.
But thanks to technology – you can compete with the Boston Brahmins without going to Boston. If American people can work from their homes and tele-commute for US companies in the US- they can certainly work for US companies sitting on a beach at Pataya. No Hb1 visas are needed for hiring mathematicians in East Europe – just internet connection, Skype, PayPal and a remote desktop connection.
And I have a dream-The only color that matters will be grey – the color of your brain cells.And green –the color of environment and the money you get.
Comprendez vous ?
History of BI Month
Here is a good video tutorial from a cool guy working for Microsoft. If you have 10 minutes 36 seconds to spare – then watch it here –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1y5jBESLPE
10 minutes 36 secs is all it takes
April 2 Announcement
Please note that the announcement on April 1 of SAS Institute investing 20 million dollars in R was an April Fool’s joke. I really enjoyed the emails, and discussion .
Cheers,
Ajay
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