Share Is failure an option for you?  Of course not – nobody wants to fail.  Yet why do so many business intelligence initiatives fail? The lack of a clear, well developed and articulated BI strategy along with appropriate executive sponsorship are among the top reasons why BI initiatives do not achieve their potential or fail [...]

Share It’s no secret – the influence of social media channels is large, and growing.  Opportunities abound for companies willing to engage consumers via these channels.  Perhaps you’ve seen the Old Spice Guy videos on YouTube, in which he personally responded to Tweets from various celebrities and others?  Yeah, well Old Spice body wash sales [...]

Share Check out this SAP Business One success story by by SAP-TV.  Style West, a branding, distribution and marketing company for apparel and footwear brands, implemented SAP Business One to set themselves up for continued growth and success.  SAP Business One provides Style West with views into their inventory across multiple divisions, tracking all transactions [...]

Share So says Mary Adams, author of the new book Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century in a post entitled How can we use IT to optimize our Intellectual Capital?  We all live and work in the knowledge era, and we all know knowledge is where competitive advantage lies.  But it is the [...]

Share Michael Fitzgerald over at Computerworld says business intelligence is going mobile.  So what’s new?  Haven’t some companies been delivering business intelligence via mobile for some time now?  Well, yes: But then the recession hit, and that stymied investment in mobile BI product development and marketing, Hatch says. What the recession didn’t stop was the development [...]