IBM Acquires Web-Analytics, SAP Ahead of the Game?
Boris Evelson pointed to IBM’s acquisition of Coremetrics, a web-analytics vendor, here. A commenter added that SAP has had web-analytics integration for some time. Boris is quick to point out that integration of web-analytics into any vendor’s business intelligence stack is bound to be a great competitive differentiator. I’m not quite sure I agree. The [...]
Better decision-making through more data is ludicrous?
“better decision-making through more data is ludicrous” — someone actually wrote this: here. The author criticized IBM’s Business Intelligence maturity model, suggesting that it was a ploy to get people to buy more IBM hardware and software. He further argued technology traps executives into making poor assumptions and decisions. Well there’s one kind of extremism [...]