Business Intelligence > Data Mining

The Field of Dreams saying: "If you build it, they will come!" doesn't hold true in the world of BI. You need to provide the right training to the right users to have a successful BI implementation.

Pack your lunchbox and sharpen your No. 2 pencils. It's time to bet back to the basics of data warehousing.

Staying on top of technology trends is one of the biggest advantages a CIO can grab. Here's a look at what's hot for this year, so you can keep your sites on the ever-moving technology target.

What do the prevailing wisdom purveyors and pundits believe the top information technologies will be over the next 12 months? Since 2009, these predictions have been pretty volatile...can you guess what's hot and what's not for 2012?

What mattered most in 2005? Intelligence and information, probably more so than they did in any other year. Now what can we learn as we head into 2006?

Here's a real life ca$e $tudy of data mining. The US Government is using data mining as a primary strategy to fight terror. All well and good, but many government data mining projects are being approved without any thought as to cost, efficacy, efficiency and necessity. Perhaps taxpayers should demand a solid business case behind these projects.

Is status quo the way to go in the rapidly changing nature of business and competition? If we all stay with current patterns and neglect innovation, experimentation and acceleration, we may find ourselves in the midst of more crises than we can handle. Here's some advice in moving your analytical systems forward.

The latest release from MicroStrategy touts itself as a data mining tool to take you to the next level of business intelligence. No doubt, it's new, but is it a legitimate data mining tool? Here's how you can identify the real deal.

There's no denying that BI has evolved somewhat over the last five years, but still the industry is feeling stagnant. Why haven't we seen bigger leaps?

You can walk the walk. Make sure you can talk the talk with this guide to BI buzzwords.

BI isn't an official Olympic event (yet), but if you want to go for the gold on your next project, you're going to need some world-class players.

Executives need projects so they can deliver on commitments, and projects need executives, who control the resources and networks essential to success. This co-dependent relationship is itself a project that can be cultivated within a PMO for an organization's strategic long-term benefit.

In every presidential election, we are inundated with data. From an analytical perspective, it's fascinating. Yet as a professional who has focused on analytic specificity for so long, it seems so non-specific and ambiguous.

Uncertainty, fear and doubt are hard at work in the minds of many CIOs when it comes to making a serious move into the cloud...and this concern is not without merit when you consider how much information is being piped over the internet these days.

Managing customer expectations in an era of aging analytics can be challenging. IT business interface managers need to become more active in understanding business intelligence users’ gripes and "wow" factors regularly.

Sure, you've been mining data, but have you considered the benefits of text mining?

Move over data mining, there's a new mining technique in town. It is time to unleash the knowledge in blogs by beginning to utilize blog mining!

With a world economy in recession, there isn't a whole lot of technology spending on the horizon. For an idea of where those precious IT dollars will (and should) be spent, here are the hot technology investments to look forward to in 2010.

When it comes to KM, the problem is not too little information, but too much of it. Data mining is just one tool in an organization’s overall effort to glean trends from raw information.

Truly integrated, web-based, real-time personalization--now that would be a real treasure. Is Black Pearl the priceless gem that BI has been looking for, or just another faux solution?

Data mining techniques may be your worst enemy when it comes to taxes, so tread carefully when filing your return.

Getting valuable information from your client takes the patience, persistence and mindset of a prospector. Searching for and finding those nuggets of client information will yield the project's motherlode.

New enhancements to data mining and segmentation tools let users cross-analyze customer purchase history, service patterns and current pipeline activity, as well as mine customer purchase, case, opportunity and transaction histories for the creation of target groups.

Is data mining dead? Is it the same thing as predictive analytics? Whatever you think, there is no denying the fact that predictive analytics is slowly gaining ground.

Pervasive computing is going to be all around us, and two dimensions of business intelligence play a large role in enabling pervasive devices: learning capability and data collection. Are you ready for it?

Finding a good data warehousing consultant can be a challenging exercise. Don't break into a sweat. Let us help you stretch out first with these helpful tips.

Be careful: The inability of a market to fully appreciate the needs of its customers and adapt its product to a different culture is a huge mistake. Unfortunately, it's all too common when it comes to many companies' misdirection of their global marketing strategy.

As social networking sites become hubs of information with attribute and interaction data, they become ripe for analyzing behaviors and demographics. This Web 2.0 intelligence can provide businesses invaluable opportunities to harness the power of communities.

Tremendous marketing advantage can be gained from data mining in huge transactional data sets.

Two schools of thought diverge regarding common performance and financial metrics applied to data modeling and data mining.

While the Lean Six Sigma approach is rarely linked with business intelligence, it is a concept that relies heavily on data, measures and analysis to support and encourage process improvement efforts. These can be provided by the BI function in the organization. The two disciplines can work together in a symbiotic relationship--one requiring data to solve problems, the other requiring problems for the data it can provide.

Big Bill Gates helping out the little guy? Seems unlikely, but a good look at Microsoft's BI tools proves that the software giant might have a good heart after all.

Success at predicting customer behavior depends on having accessible, clean, easy-to-use information. It's time for some data mining!

Data mining is a highly directed technique that requires judgment and experience on the part of the analyst. Learn from an industry pro what is expected.

Techniques such as data mining and statistical analysis perform well in the hands of advanced analytical users, but can prove challenging for a broader user base.

Consider this: The probability of a random event occurring is modified when partial information relevant to the event is obtained and considered. Now let's apply this to data mining, shall we?

Data mining technology is changing as a result of all the industry consolidation.

This excellent article could easily be retitled Data Mining 101.

Make no mistake about it. The future of the term data mining lies in predictive analytics.

Sexy or not, effective dashboards help project leaders quickly impart information to a range of audiences, from team members to executives to stakeholders — it’s the 30-second elevator speech on a screen, customized for detail. And it’s getting more advanced as dashboard developers consider user appeal as well as utility.

By building data warehouses and data marts that integrate customer contact information with product history and customer service information, organizations can truly begin to build a complete picture of their customers and really start to understand their needs and tailor specific messages for each customer.

Personalized marketing and customer data mining are being socked by privacy and data integration woes.

Project management alone is not enough to tame the beast of data warehousing. It's time to call in the big guns of program management.

Granted, the pay-per-view prospects of this conflict are pretty dim, but when you're looking for a BI solution, the outcome is vitally important. There is no clear winner--it all comes down to what's best for you.

Understanding the power of IT and using it to build competitive advantages enabled two companies to leap-frog the competition, whereas another lost a big customer because it could not foresee the challenges coming from non-traditional competition. Read this article to take advantage of these hard-earned lessons.

Maybe the buzzword is, but the concept still has value.

Do you even have to ask? It's a landslide victory for one of these contenders...

There might be something to that Big Brother idea. Keeping an eye on customer use of your website with ClickStream Data can build stronger relationships with clients.

For many years, business intelligence within organizations has focused on the question of "what is." But the questions that emerge from the study of complex systems is more of a question of "what will be." Those companies that can use intelligence to understand this are the ones that will be able to adapt to our rapidly changing environment.