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This week I sat and listened to a leader
His name is Matt Mullenweg. This is what he looks like: Matt is a Leader. Matt is also 30, a Texan who lives in San Fran now and 11 years ago he started the open source software called Wordpress, via a "Not for Profit"organisation Wordpress.org. Did you know that...
Do you stand out in a crowd?
As I have mentioned I have sat through a lot of presentation this year. When I get bored my mind wanders. One of these times I thought: "I wonder if all these different BI company tag lines are similar" So here we go, a selection of tag lines from BI companies:...
To blog or not to blog ……
I returned a while ago from four weeks overseas in a family holiday. I had thought I would spend the down time in the evening catching up with my reading and writing some blogs I have had in my head for a while. I managed to achieve one of the two. If you follow our...
? vs ?
As you may have noticed we have launched Poli vs Poli, a micro website that shows a number of metrics based on tweets about New Zealand politicians. Somebody asked me the other days where the Idea came from. We had the idea a few years ago before the last election....
Complexity is often the basis for making something simple
When we launched MagnumBI our goal was to make Business Intelligence as simple as possible for our customers. As a result we have ended up building a fairly complex architecture under the covers. Why you might ask? If you think about Dropbox it's a very simple product...
When presenting, present what counts for your audience first
I have been to a few conferences and presentations this year. A big part of my role is to look to the future to see what is new in the world of Business Intelligence and what it could mean for our customers. So attending these (along with lots of research and...
Sex Sells – What about Advanced Analytics Tools?
When I was working in Presales at Oracle, doing penance by trying to sell Oracle Applications, I got my butt constantly whopped by Peoplesoft. Why? Sex Sells! Yes they had a few features we didn't (date effective GL hierarchies were a killer), but we had "the stack",...
Cloud – The rate of change is going to make administrators jobs …. different
As I read this blog post on an interesting idea around how to get help up-skilling on the the cloud providers (AWS etc) i reflected on the rate of change we are seeing in the software market and what that means to administrators that are responsible for managing this...
The Wellington contractor market is changing – watch out
Its a very interesting time for the contractor market in Wellington this year, a number of major changes by Government last year, coupled with some some other factors has made the market tight for contractors and my view is it will get tighter as we head into 2014. So...
Gartner Magic Quadrant – “Advanced” Analytics 2014
It's that time of year again when Gartner publish their BI related magic quadrants and the vendors all blog. tweet and email the good news of where they sit. This year Gartner released a new quadrant, focussed on Advanced Analytics vendors. Here it is: I'm a...
Webstock – The Internet removes barriers
My current standing joke is: “I have a great product idea i’m about to launch I just have to figure out how to build it and then how to sell it” At Webstock one of the many great presentations was by Spoek Mathambo about how the internet is changing things for music in South Africa. […]
RapidMiner – Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
If you ever try and install RapidMiner on a mac, you might get this little error when starting its engines: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/rapid_i/LauncherJVMOptionBuilder : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 To get this error...