Tag Archives: BusinessIntelligence

A Better Way to Share Spreadsheets With a Living Data Set

I love Microsoft Excel. Unfortunately Excel on the Mac is not as easy to work with as Excel on the PC. One major difference is the lack of ODBC connections without third party software. This has caused me to look to web-based spreadsheets like Google Docs, but unfortunately those leave me wanting as [...]

Business Intelligence on the iPhone

Oracle has released what looks to be a really great app for the iPhone.
From the iTunes App Store:

Oracle Business Indicators is a business intelligence application that provides real-time, secure access to business performance information on the mobile device.
- Requires the licensing of Oracle Business intelligence Suite, … [and a bunch of other Oracle products] … [...]

Coming Soon: smallBIG

I have written a little bit about wanting to focus on Business Intelligence for Small Businesses. As I am currently in a transition process, but some of the pieces are starting to fall together. The picture became much clearer this morning when I came up with the perfect name for a new company [...]

Google as a Business Intelligence Platform for Small Businesses

Last week I wrote some thoughts about using the Mac OS X Dashboard for business intelligence. I still think that is a neat idea, but so much has changed in a very short period of time.
The main thing that changed is obviously Google AppEngine. Like with every major tech story these days there has been [...]

Moving Lawson Business Intelligence From Tomcat to Websphere

With the release of Lawson Business intelligence (LBI) 9.0.2, Lawson made the decision to no longer support Tomcat in a production environment. Many companies will now need to migrate LBI to Websphere since it is the only supported platform. Since LBI is a Windows-only web application the move to Websphere seems like a good step [...]