Tag: Business Intelligence

The dubious beginnings of corporate BI/analytics Business Intelligence (BI) solutions have been around for decades, dating back to decision support systems (DSS) and executive information systems (EIS) in vogue during the 1970s and 1980s. Soon thereafter, data warehouses, data marts, data …

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Big data, big business, big value The promise of big data is both compelling and straightforward — crunch large data volumes (operational, transactional, structured, unstructured) to unlock insights (correlations, trends, outliers, etc.) that inform timely decisions that boost efficiency, the …

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CFO – From bean counter to trusted advisor Chief Financial Officers are relatively new to the C-Suite — fewer than 10% of the major companies in the U.S. had CFOs before 1978, compared to 80% or more each year after …

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