The following announcement by BancTec demonstrates the value of high speed and high volume scanners and the associated software systems to organizations like the IRS.

Any BI application is proven to be built on four basic pillars. It is all about having right information by the right people at the right time through the right channel. Let us explore this a little further............

Taking our inspiration for a post from a discussion on LinkedIn, we thought about whether Business Intelligence should be controlled primarily by the IT department or people from business functions.

I thought it was only me but it appears that many others are expressing the sentiment that IT Innovation came to a dead stop circa Dot Com Bust in 2001 and never recovered. We have been innovating earthshaking things like searching tweets and finding BOTH of your friends on Facebook with one click instead of several clicks. What a shame? We have come a long way from improving storage and retrieval of data, object oriented databases, new programming languages and improved User In terfaces to this?

I'm giving two presentations this year at OOW. One is technical for performance tuning, and the other is a case study on a really cool project I'm leading right now.

I discovered yet another benefit of digital mailrooms today. Our list of secret or unexpected benefits is getting larger by the day!

In the past few weeks we have noticed an interesting trend. A number of old and traditional companies are approaching us with requirements for scanning solutions, archiving and workflow.

Seemingly simple question, but one with huge implications in a socially-transparent world. I have worked for some folks over the years who were “nice guys” until they got in a room with a potential customer and turned into sharks. Their belief was that they needed to close the customer as soon as possible and with as much margin as possible.

Burnout in one's job is always a perennnial problem, especially in IT. Short of switching Careers, there may be many other alternatives that may work out better.

Google Analytics has announced a new sorting algorithm called weighted sort which weights the sort by the number of data points.

Read on for 5 questions you need to answer before deploying business intelligence capabilities.

Many companies we work with process large numbers of the same standardized document. Others may have a few hundred standardized documents that they send out and receive in the mail daily.

While Q4 is right around the corner, so are some of the industry’s must-attend Business Intelligence, performance management and Cognos events. To make things easy, here is a list of those events with information on how to register. Most of these are free events, that you don’t want to miss – the events will increase your knowledge in the world of business analytics, will provide industry trends and what to expect for the rest of the year, as well as Cognos tips and tricks, and upcoming Cognos training courses – take advantage of these valuable events today.

We spell out a few tips for you to follow to get the most out of your data visualizations.

In this blog we have identified many benefits received by implementing digital mailrooms over the past few months. However, the more time I spend working with digital mailrooms, the more benefits I recognize. Here are a few more benefits that I may not have mentioned in the past.

For a long time, San Jose International Airport in the heart of Silicon Valley used to look like a Bus Station. In the heart of High Technology Innovation? Not anymore. High tech facelifts like complete Virtualization across the airport lets any Airline login as themselves at any location!!

I´m back again :) Waiting patiently for TDWI World session in San Diego to kick of, having Agile BI as the common thread through-out the entire conference. It is really sad that I live across the Atlantic so that I can't be apart of this wonderful initiative! Meanwhile I can still post messages on t...

Astadia have announced the launch of the I.T. Cloud Transformation (ITX) ROI Calculator which is a free online service.

The business software and hardware system provider Oracle has been regularly acquiring new companies to complement their offerings since 2004 - and 2010 has been no exception. Stephen Jannise speculates on who its acquisition campaign will target next.

Here is an interesting discussion on digital mailrooms that I found on the SAP Mentors channel of YouTube.