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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 pages and moved applications to the Web anyway because of the substantial savings promised by the shift. Now their patience is about to be rewarded. Emerging from a decade of groundwork is Web... (more)

Can the iPhone Do BI?

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 de... (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 s... (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 al... (more)