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August, 2008
Business Objects – BI and Performance Management with SAP Evolves - Monday, August 18, 2008
Actuate Integrates Open Source for Business Growth - Friday, August 08, 2008
Is Oracle Really Ready for BI and Performance Management or Are You? - Sunday, August 03, 2008

June, 2008
Open Source BI: From Commoditization or Complexity? - Sunday, June 29, 2008
Why Lack of Customer Experience Insight Could Spoil Your Business - Friday, June 13, 2008
BI and Software as a Service (SaaS) – Challenging Conventional Wisdom - Thursday, June 05, 2008
Informatica Bets Big on Information Economy - Wednesday, June 04, 2008
Information Builders Elbows In With Predictive Analytics - Tuesday, June 03, 2008

April, 2008
Does HR Understand Their Information Dilemma? - Thursday, April 24, 2008
Why IT Might Be in Big Trouble - Again - Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Why Business Should Be Mad as Hell at IT - Monday, April 21, 2008
HP Software Advances and Transforms - Wednesday, April 02, 2008

March, 2008
SaaS – New Economic Pressures Increase Focus but Are You Prepared? - Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Why Bad Research Could Jeopardize Your Business - Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Why Research Matters for Improving Performance - Tuesday, March 11, 2008
BI Market Changes Expose Stark Reality - Monday, March 10, 2008

January, 2008
BI Market Chaos Accelerates with SAP and Business Objects Combination - Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Microsoft: The Road Ahead Without Bill Gates - Friday, January 11, 2008
Happy New Year: Be Skeptical about BI Predictions and Trends - Wednesday, January 02, 2008

November, 2007
Oh Oracle – Let’s Be Honest Now - Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Teradata: New Tiger in Analytics and New Choices Ahead - Monday, November 12, 2007
IBM To Digest Cognos – Maybe Not So Stubborn - Monday, November 12, 2007
IBM Software Group Analyst Summit – Visionary, Conservative and a Little Stubborn - Friday, November 09, 2007

October, 2007
Business Objects – Innovations and Looming Challenges with Future in SAP - Friday, October 26, 2007
SAP Shakes Up Market with Business Objects - Tuesday, October 09, 2007

September, 2007
SAP BusinessByDesign – One Step at a Time - Friday, September 21, 2007
Can Salesforce.com Make the Dream Reality? - Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Business Objects for Sale? - Monday, September 17, 2007
Oracle and SAP – Can They Help HR? - Monday, September 17, 2007

August, 2007
Microsoft – Can PerformancePoint Perform for You? - Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Oracle 11g – Universal All Over Again - Tuesday, August 07, 2007
Competency and Compensation: Building Blocks for Talent Management - Friday, August 03, 2007
Is the BI Battle Over? - Wednesday, August 01, 2007

July, 2007
Oracle Boasts Leadership Position in BI & Performance Management – Should We Believe Them? - Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Talent Management Tailored for the Midsize - Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Informatics? What is This All About? - Monday, July 02, 2007

June, 2007
Sales Performance Management Deserves More Attention - Friday, June 29, 2007
Data Discovery: A Tool for Information Management - Thursday, June 28, 2007
Your IT Portfolio Could Be Bleeding Dollars - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Are You Ready for Location Intelligence? Google Enterprise Says It Is - Monday, June 25, 2007
Microsoft Gets Serious about Master Data Management - Friday, June 15, 2007

May, 2007
When Blogging Goes Bad - Thursday, May 31, 2007
Do BI Vendors Want SOA Now? - Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Business Impact from SOA? Yes, SOA. - Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Taking the FUD out of Open Source BI - Wednesday, May 23, 2007
BI Is Not Performance Management - Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Mobile BI Is Ready. Are You? - Friday, May 18, 2007
SAP Improves Outlook on Financial Performance Management - Thursday, May 17, 2007
The Promise of Workday - Friday, May 11, 2007
New Definition for CDI: Customers Don’t Interface - Thursday, May 10, 2007
Industry Analysts – Bad Charts Bad Decisions - Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Total Compensation Management Doesn’t Add Up - Friday, May 04, 2007
The Uncommitted: New Dimensions in Workforce Management - Thursday, May 03, 2007
Tibco Spots for Analytics - Wednesday, May 02, 2007
Time for the CIO To Step Up - Tuesday, May 01, 2007

April, 2007
Do You Have Business Intelligence? - Monday, April 30, 2007
Salesforce.com moves away from the sales force - Friday, April 27, 2007
Does Microsoft Have Your Dynamic? - Thursday, April 26, 2007
Globalization and Mobilization of Workforce – The Information Bottleneck - Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Financial Technology Shifts Ownership: Business Objects Announcement and Oracle’s Hyperion overshadow SAP Reseller Deal - Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Does IBM Understand BI? - Monday, April 23, 2007
Generational Transformation in Your Workforce - Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Does Hardware Matter for Business Intelligence? - Monday, April 16, 2007
Can Software AG Lift webMethods to a New Level? - Friday, April 13, 2007

March, 2007
Oracle and SAP - Fur Flying and SAP Executive Jumps or was Bumped - Thursday, March 29, 2007
Professor Davenport Misses the Point of Analytics - Friday, March 23, 2007
The Bottleneck in Your Business May Be Information Technology - Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Too Much 2.0 Hype - Thursday, March 08, 2007
Oracle Scores Big with Hyperion; SAP Must Respond - Friday, March 02, 2007

February, 2007
Put Enterprise Search in Proper Perspective - Monday, February 26, 2007
The Promise of Event-Based BI: Operational Intelligence - Thursday, February 22, 2007
Business: Please Manage Performance - Tuesday, February 20, 2007
HP and Enterprise Software – Is the Company Ready? - Thursday, February 15, 2007
Microsoft Missing MDM - Tuesday, February 13, 2007
The Performance Mandate – Does it Exist? - Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Is SAP Ready to BI? - Monday, February 05, 2007

January, 2007
Information Democracy Is Worse Than Messy - Friday, January 26, 2007
The BS in BI - Wednesday, January 24, 2007
SFA – Sales Force Awaiting - Thursday, January 04, 2007

December, 2006
Spreadsheets Are Just Too Risky - Friday, December 22, 2006
Visualizing Data Can Accelerate Insights - Monday, December 18, 2006
Application Integration Vendors Stuck in Plumbing - Friday, December 15, 2006
Searching for SOA Paradise - Thursday, December 14, 2006

October, 2006
The Danger of Outsourcing Data Assets - Monday, October 23, 2006
Does HR Have the Competency to Manage the Workforce? - Friday, October 20, 2006
CRM Isn’t Really about Software - Wednesday, October 18, 2006

September, 2006
The ERP Dilemma – Is it You or the Technology? - Friday, September 22, 2006
Include Master Data Management in Application Development - Thursday, September 21, 2006
Who Is Master Data For? - Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Finding Competency, Building Performance - Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Is Your IT Budget Irrelevant? - Monday, September 18, 2006
Is a Dashboard Enough to Drive Performance Management? - Friday, September 15, 2006

August, 2006
Build a Bridge between ERP and BI - Thursday, August 31, 2006
Productivity Improvement is Not Enough - Wednesday, August 30, 2006
The BS in BI Strategy - Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Let’s Get Sensible about Search - Monday, August 28, 2006
Spreadsheets – A Miscalculated Risk - Wednesday, August 16, 2006
More Than the Latest Toaster - Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Open Source BI – Coming to Your Organization Soon - Monday, August 14, 2006
Data Quality 2.0 – Time To Get Serious - Friday, August 11, 2006
Performance Management: Programs Must Deal with Complexity - Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Enterprise Software: Improvements in Data Infrastructure Bring New Life - Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Software Consolidation: Is HP Capable of Leading IT Management? - Monday, August 07, 2006

July, 2006
Is the Public Sector More Nimble than the Private? - Friday, July 07, 2006

June, 2006
The Changing Nature of Search - Thursday, June 29, 2006
Racing at the Speed of Business - Tuesday, June 13, 2006

May, 2006
Performance Management: Needed Not Tomorrow but Today - Thursday, May 25, 2006
Enterprise Applications: Seismic Shift - Tuesday, May 23, 2006

April, 2006
Does CRM Live in Your Business? - Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Enabling Operational Intelligence - Monday, April 17, 2006
Profiling Your Workforce’s Performance - Friday, April 14, 2006
Do Analytics Matter? - Wednesday, April 12, 2006

March, 2006
Who’s Your Data Master? - Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Opening Your Mind and Information – Open Source BI - Wednesday, March 01, 2006

February, 2006
Google in the Enterprise – Should you Care? - Tuesday, February 28, 2006

January, 2006
Your Dirty Large Secret – Data Quality - Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Software as Service Performance Management – Alternative to IT Backlog - Monday, January 30, 2006
Failed BI Implementations – Technology or Best Practice? - Friday, January 27, 2006

December, 2005
SOA, SOA and More SOA - Wednesday, December 21, 2005
To SAP or Not to SAP: That is the Question - Tuesday, December 20, 2005



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