Tag Archives: business case

This new Mobile BI (Ooo, shiny!) seems somehow to lack, well, newness.

In this post, Professional Services Manager Richard Parsons argues that there are more important things on which to focus than “new Mobile BI”.

I am getting drenched in wide-eyed enthusiasm for Mobile Business Intelligence (BI). It is getting tiresome.  It is obscuring more important things, and making it harder for people to actually drive on making a difference.

It is very true that with BI we deliver business performance improvement.  There is… Continue reading

BI in Education – Macquarie University

Second in the trilogy of End User stories in Education, here is a short history of Business Intelligence in action at Macquarie University.

Faced with an issue of 25,000 lines of SQL script to generate information for users – it was unmaintainable and unreliable.  CALUMO were engaged through winning a tender process to provide integrated Reporting.

The CALUMO solution, referred to as ForeSight provides financial and HR information… Continue reading

Valuing Business Intelligence Projects

In this comic April Fools video, Bruno Aziza interviews L. Vaughan Spencer about Business Analytics (or Business Intelligence).  Spencer tries very hard to tell us why analytics is important. He includes in a rap about Time Series, Score Cards etc.. Aziza asked “Why are analytics so important for organisations?” The best reason Spencer gives is  “they [Analytics ] are a must squared to have” and “without analytics what are you?… Continue reading