Business intelligence thinkers can take a leaf from the books of grammarians, who speak of “tense” as defining the time over which an event occurs. And as someone who has long criticized BI for being mostly concerned with predicting the past, I thought it would be instructive to consider the convoluted way we often find ourselvesContinue reading “BI Should Be Tense: Future Perfect Progressive, to be Exact”
Author Archives: Merv Adrian
Business Intelligence Matters? Optimize your site for search, Merv.
Business Intelligence is the center of my practice. And I’m trying to launch a website that will tell people so. Good thing I have a great network of people who are expert in things I am a rank newbie in, like web site construction. Shawn Rogers, co-founder and executive editor of of B-Eye Network, was kindContinue reading “Business Intelligence Matters? Optimize your site for search, Merv.”
Once more into the breach…
After an interesting evening 6 months ago playing with all this stuff but never coming back, I am at last getting the blog started in earnest. Remarkable how it concentrates the mind to needto do something as opposed to just playing with it! On this site, I’ll air the issues, ideas, and opportunities of my new venture,Continue reading “Once more into the breach…”