Jim Ericson

Moving On With Analytics

March 9, 2010
Catching up with Tom Davenport and his latest book, it looks like we're squaring up analytical prowess with our slower culture and process evolution

Vendors: What's Not To Like

March 2, 2010
Dresner survey churns top 10 peeves list in David Letterman fashion; we share them with you here

Best in BI? Ask the Crowd

February 23, 2010
Former Gartner analyst Howard Dresner is running his own customer experience survey for participants to decide what business intelligence is and how well it works

Worst-Kept Secrets

February 16, 2010
It's not so much that columnar databases and in-memory are hot or that MPP and virtualization won, it's the rate of change that should have you guessing now

Who Let the Dollars Out?

February 8, 2010
2010 has already delivered a list of top acquisitions; drivers include maturity, customer acquisition and cross-selling, but the confusion now falls to buyers

Big Brother For Hire

February 2, 2010
With CIA profilers reportedly moonlighting to monitor earnings calls for "deception detection," speech analytics vendors are likely licking their chops for what comes next

Data as Commerce

January 26, 2010
Just like iTunes, granular Web data services are just beginning to sprout into a new transactional data economy

Hedge Like the Vendors Do

January 19, 2010
Deconstruct your daily tech briefing, find your self-interest and use last week’s HP/Microsoft news as a learning experience

Next-Gen Jobs

January 12, 2010
Parents want to see their kids with a happy and successful career, but these days there's not a lot of useful advice

The Movable IT Budget

January 5, 2010
Not that it will change overnight, but an annual budgeting cycle for IT spending might not stand the test of time

Data Center Lessons from AVATAR

December 29, 2009
Weta Digital’s Paul Gunn runs a state of the art facility but doesn’t play by all the new rules

A Spot Market for Computing

December 23, 2009
Amazon’s 12/14 launch of Spot Instances for EC2 is something we might want to mark on our calendar as a minor historic date in computing

Wisdom That Isn't

December 15, 2009
If you're going to tackle a new center of excellence or competency center, at some point you're going to have to throw out the analyst playbook

Data Governance Moves Upstream

December 8, 2009
Don't sweat data governance, make it a measure of political maturity to challenge your peers and look for tools to help your people processes

Clouds: Both Sides Now

November 18, 2009
With my inbox groaning under overload, two themes have emerged: some will watch the establishment evolve (Goldman Sachs has picked the winners already); and others will simply go for it