Eric Lundquist

Yahoo! is in the midst of reorganizing into three divisions, unloading some execs and all caught up in claiming that it will now develop new focus. Am I the only one that believes Yahoo! got into trouble becaue its original hierarchial search engine was crushed by Google’s search methodology?Yahoo’s forays into Hollywood, news and lame […]

Was there something missing from your technology experience last week? Did you get the strange feeling that you should really be wandering around garish, over-the-top trade booths listening to vendors spew promise after false promise? Did you think that the only appropriate way to get from one convention site to another was to wait in […]

Is your company flat? Is your company paranoid? Do your managers manage by walking around? All those terms have always been printed in boldface type in the consultants lexicon, but aside from fodder for Dilbert cartoons, those terms are usually just that, terms instead of actions. But as the power of consumer social technologies becomes […]

What is business intelligence in the health care field? This was the question I asked John Halamka. Heres his reply and accompanying visuals that illustrate how advances in medicine are not only in the discovery of new disease treatments, but also in discovering new ways to manage and improve health care via information technology. John […]

Has open source passed by business intelligence? Not really; there are a lot of open-source BI products around. A good starting point is Pentaho. The company has a strong management team including Andre Boisvert, who has made stops at most of all the big names in BI. Taking the leap into open-source BI is an […]

Greg Smith thinks big. Whether it be figuring out how to transmit data from remote areas or writing a groundbreaking new book on what it takes to be a CIO in this era, Smith is not only an IT practitioner, but also a leading strategist. Smith is vice president and CIO of World Wildlife Fund. […]

Fran Rabuck is a longtime observer and participant in the information technology business. Rabuck is a member of the eWEEK corporate partner advisory board and is president of Philadelphia-based Rabuck Associates. He discussed business intelligence trends with Eric Lundquist. “We mixed, mashed and ETL [extract, transform, load] our data to make nice little data warehouses. […]

The users of business intelligence are outpacing the vendors of BI software. Thats my conclusion after a round of talks and e-mails with users and vendors as well as looking at the expansion of the definition of BI in a world of social networks, sensor networks and corporate networks. Consider the comments from three experts […]

Heres an example of business intelligence that BI vendors dont talk about too often. A person calls an 800-number at a telecommunications carrier for help on billing questions. Maybe the person has exceeded his or her allotted minutes, made calls outside the service network, or didnt realize that calls from Canada to the United States […]

What do the sun, dust and shipping containers have in common? All three objects were in the news for their application toward controlling the costs of IS, expanding the definition of IS and making information as easy to set up as, well, hauling around a shipping container. Google last week announced its intention to outfit […]

When I wrote a piece on my experience installing (or trying to install) Internet Explorer 7 on my IBM ThinkPad, I expected a strong response from both the pro-Microsoft and the pro-Firefox parties. I wasnt disappointed. However, there was some useful input. Read to the bottom of this article to find out how one reader […]

What are the biggest concerns among CIOs for the data center in 2006? The Gartner Group in its 2006 survey of IT executives gives the following four as the top of the list. 1. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery 2. Virtualization Directions & Technologies 3. Server & Storage Consolidation Trends 4. How to Run an […]