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Privacy in the Information Age
An IT developer recently compiled a list of 100 million Facebook users and posted it to BitTorrent for sharing. Much was made of this “security breach” (Facebook denied a “security breach” since all...
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Can’t anybody here play this game? – Casey Stengel By Peter Beck, CBIP IBM has a new paper out on that age-old question – why do BI projects fail, and what can be done about it? The paper is entitled...
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“Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone” – Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi My six week experimentation with Android is over. I am back on the Blackberry network....
View ArticleWayne Eckerson @ TDWI Ottawa
By Peter Beck, CBIP Wayne Eckerson is a noted BI consultant who spoke recently to the Ottawa TDWI chapter. I’d call Wayne a guru, but someone once told me that guru was a polite word for charlatan....
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Business Intelligence in the Age of Austerity
photo credit: QUOI Media The Government of Canada has spent the last year on a strategic review of programs, with a stated goal of saving 5 to 10% on current program expenditures. One initiative that...
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Unblocking Your Blog
In my line of work, I spend a lot of time googling Cognos error codes or investigating Cognos issues online. My online inquiries lead me to many different sources, including many other technical...
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The Age of Working Remotely
When I started out in the IT business, you had to be on site at a client pretty much all of the time. In fact, you often had to be holed up in the server room, which was often like a closet. Unless...
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Big Data Primer at MIT
While there has been much buzz and excitement around the concept of Big Data in recent years, I myself have always had certain reservations about it. Not one of my clients works in Big Data or has...
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The Dangers of Data on the Cloud
Across the internet, many data services exist on the Cloud – those faraway servers managed by someone else, often for free. Not long ago I had a minor bad example of what can happen when you rely on...
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Why I lament the end of TechNet (and why Microsoft should too)
Years ago, when I decided to pursue a career in IT, I did something silly. I bought a full licence version of Visual Studio. It cost me a lot of money, I barely used it, and it was obsolete very...
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