If you have too much data and too little insight, you have come to the right place. This is a resource for analysts and executives who want their data to be the asset it was promised to be.
For years, the business analytics/intelligence community has been talking about: "enabling organizations to better leverage the information buried throughout their enterprise and getting the right information to the right people at the right time" (IBM)
Hard to argue with that. But we'd like to use this space to move beyond bold pronouncements to explain both:
HOW? Making business analytics valuable within your organization is a tall and tricky task. It offers technical barriers (e.g. How do I get to the data? How to I analyze it?) and cultural challenges (e.g. How do I incorporate analysis into the decision-making process?). We'll share our views on the pitfalls and success factors.
WHY? We'd like to bring business analytics to life in a way that matters. We will present new ways of understanding your customers that are intuitive and insightful. We will share our views on dashboards and reporting, and how they can drive performance. Most of all, we will explain why analytics can make a bottom-line difference for your organization.
Business analytics resources
- Stephen Few's blog on The Business Intelligence Network
- Thoughts about how visual representations of data and visual interaction techniques can be used in practical ways to analyze and communicate business information
- Anant Jhingran's Musings
- From the VP and CTO for IBM's Information Management Division. Anant is responsible for the technical strategy of products and solutions in databases, content management, business intelligence and information integration
- Open Source Analytics
- Comprehensive analytics on open-source software
Juice Analytics blog
The art and science of data
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byAnalytics-related books
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
Amazon Price: $31.36 (as of 07/05/2008)
Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data
Amazon Price: $23.09 (as of 07/05/2008)
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Amazon Price: $17.13 (as of 07/05/2008)
