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	<title>Thinking Business Intelligence</title>
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	<description>Fresh thinking and advice on business intelligence and enterprise performance management.</description>
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		<title>BI Review Falls into DM Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although we enjoyed reading our quarterly issues of BI Review, we were not surprised to see its demise and fold back into DM Review. Here&#8217;s an email we received from the editors recently.
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Many of you have asked us why you have not received your latest issues of BI Review. Well, we’ve been working for some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=46</link>
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		<title>Noetix Report Says BI Utilization is Still Low</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We agree. A recent report from our partner Noetix says:
Noetix Corp. recently announced results from a market survey that reveals that most companies do not believe they are using their current BI tools to their fullest potential. Moreover, if enterprises could conduct ROI studies more efficiently, it would be easier to get BI projects approved, justify [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashboards: The New Face of Reporting from DM Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting perspective from Shadan Malik at iDashboards on utilizing dashboards for reports vs. reporting.
A subtle yet important difference lies between reporting and a report. While reporting connotes the gathering of textual and numeric data, a report is a representation of this information. For example, with regard to a manufacturing company that gathers an array of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=40</link>
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		<title>IT Departments Versus On-Demand: Does Internal Expertise Matter?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BI analyst Lyndsay Wise published a fairly provocative piece that we agree with in large part. She investigated whether it&#8217;s wise for a company&#8217;s IT organization to be responsible for BI application implementation. She says:
Realistically, most organizations deploying BI use the traditional model of internal IT staff to manage and develop the data warehouse as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=45</link>
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		<title>Subscribe to DM Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re big fans of DM Review. Click here to subscribe to DM Review.
DM Review has been providing top-notch editorial from industry thought leaders and practitioners for more than 18 years. Find full coverage of the business intelligence, data warehousing, analytics and performance management issues facing today&#8217;s business and IT executives in each issue.
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		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=39</link>
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		<title>Structuring Unstructured Data to Support Business Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good article by Michael Overturf of Pitney Bowes that the challenges we face with the tons of unstructured data (emails, etc.) in most systems and the opportunities that business intelligence can provide once the data is normalized.  Most of our engagements entail a large degree of data normalization, in fact our tagline originally was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Definitions of Business Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our OBIEE clients ask us to define business intelligence (BI) all the time. Here are some good definitions we found after a quick search.
a popularized, umbrella term used to describe a set of concepts and methods to improve business decision making by using fact-based support &#8230;
www.noisebetweenstations.com/personal/essays/metadata_glossary/metadata_glossary.html
Normally describes the result of in-depth analysis of detailed business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=36</link>
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		<title>A Great Collaborate Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collaborate 08 was truly a great conference. We were proud to be a part of it. Click here for a copy of our well-attended presentation on business intelligence strategies for public sector entities. It also has some great ideas for commercial entities as well.
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		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=35</link>
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		<title>The Role of Packaged BI Applications in Delivering Enterprise-Wide BI and DW</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good article by Robert Farris of Hitachi covering the pros and cons of deploying packaged applications. Obviously we see more of the pros having implemented dozens of systems for government and commercial customers.
The Promise of Packaged Analytics
Many companies these days run their business, or at least significant areas of their business, using packaged applications configured [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=43</link>
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		<title>DIG Conference in May</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leveraging Information for Breakthrough Business Performance: 2008 DIG in Las Vegas  May 13-15, 2008.
DIG is the foremost performance management and analytics conference where IT, Finance, and business leaders gain the insights needed to leverage information for critical decision-making, helping them to achieve breakthrough business performance.  DIG steps beyond normal one-sided lectures and provides an exchange [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.irusgroup.com/WordPress/?p=38</link>
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