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Why Excel Is Not an Enterprise Business Intelligence Solution
But don’t let the title fool you. I am not one of those Business Intelligence (BI) consultants who thoroughly bashes and discounts Excel. I think Excel is a flexible, powerful tool that has almost...
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About Nevada’s New ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) Law
While at one of our clients, we recently fielded a question about Nevada’s new data security laws and how they may impact a company and its HR operations. We’ve been able to find the following...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence and CPG/Retail
In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how...
View ArticleIBM Builds Biggest Data Drive Ever
Tom Simonite, writing for MIT’s Technology Review: A data repository almost 10 times bigger than any made before is being built by researchers at IBM’s Almaden, California, research lab. The 120...
View ArticleThe Great Tech War of 2012
Utterly fantastic article in Fast Company by Farhad Manjoo about the greatest tech showdown of our time, all likely going fully thermonuclear next year. With players like Apple, Facebook, Google and...
View ArticlePeopleTools 8.5: Query Drilling URL
In the release of PeopleTools 8.5, a new feature for Query Manager called Drilling URL was released. Drilling URL allow the query results to hyperlink or drill down into the source data. The query...
View ArticleThe Four Degrees of Understanding
If people are connected by six degrees of separation, then I contend that raw data and true IT wisdom are connected by four degrees of understanding. Let me explain. (And this won’t involve Kevin...
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Realtime Map of Lightning Strikes
This is too cool not to share: here is a realtime map of lightning strikes. (This region is set to United States, but you can select others on the left side of the screen.) Make sure your sound is...
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PeopleSoft 1099: Now Is the Time to Start Your Cleanup Process
I’m here to talk about the January 2015 1099 season. It’s not quite officially here yet, but it is fast approaching. I always tell our clients that Oct-Dec is the time to review your 1099 data. By...
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