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Where is the intelligence in Business Intelligence?

Many people believe that if they go ahead and implement a Business Intelligence solution they will suddenly have an intelligent business that will tell them how it is operating and what they need to do. Customers they need contacting will be flagged, orders that are likely to be late are notified so as to keep the customers happy, and the boss is alerted as to the reason profits have fallen from 15% to 10%.

The expectation is that the system, the data warehouse, the reports will provide this intelligence.

This is just wrong.

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Performance Point RTM is now available

I got an email from MS today saying the Performance Point RTM is now generally available. Performance point is something I am interested in but as with many new technologies I have yet to dedicate any time to picking it up. If you are interested in learning...
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