Rado Kotorov

Today’s executives are on the move and they need to be able to run their companies remotely. Mobile business intelligence (BI) applications allow them to access critical corporate data from their laptops, smart phones, and PDAs. The iPhone promises to deliver information on an even more compact and versatile device. But can BI vendors make it work with the information executives depend on? The answer is yes, but it’s important to understand both the limitations and the architectural requirements of this amazing new platform. Let’s take a step back and consider the iPhone’s legacy, beginning with the iPod. The iPod was successful because it creatively destroyed product boundaries, hastening the convergence of disk storage, high-resolution video screens, and music technologies. Apple changed our perceptions about mobile media, creating a newe... (more)

Will Combined Search and Business Intelligence Go Mainstream?

My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher “Googles” for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google’s obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can foresee generations X and Y being followed by generation S – one that will rely on search to accomplish almost any task. Search’s simplicity has excited many people about the prospect of bringing Google-like search into enterprise business intelligence (BI) systems. Ther... (more)

Delivering Web 2.0 User Interfaces Using AJAX

By any reckoning, the Internet and the World Wide Web have remade the way we do business. The ascendance of the Web-based enterprise has come to be seen as inevitable. But anyone who takes a hard look at the serious limitations of first-generation Web applications is likely to have a renewed sense of wonder at the spread of their adoption thus far. Users experimented with e-mail, instant messaging, and search engines and turned them into real communication, collaboration, and information-gathering tools. Those same business users endured their fitful interactions with static HTML... (more)

Introducing "Generation S" - for Search

My seven-year-old daughter thinks that there is a knowledge genie that her teacher "Googles" for answers. While cute, the anecdote also exemplifies how much Google's obsession with simplicity has helped build brand awareness, making their name literally synonymous with search. I can foresee generations X and Y being followed by generation S - one that will rely on search to accomplish almost any task. Search's simplicity has excited many people about the prospect of bringing Google-like search into enterprise business intelligence (BI) systems. There is something magical about t... (more)