Nenshad Bardoliwalla
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer at Paxata,the Adaptive Data Preparation pioneer. Previously Co-Founder at Tidemark, VP Product roles at SAP, Siebel. Nenshad is Co-Author of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution (Evolved Technologist Press, New York, NY, 2009), and an entrepreneurial analytics product executive.

Big Data in 2014 – The trends behind the predictions
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 6, 2014
Back in December 2009, fresh off the heals of publishing what I hoped would be the definitive guide to strategy-driven analytics Driven to Perform, and being accidentally admitted to the Enterprise Irregulars, I wrote The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management where I summarized where I thought the industry was […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Big Data, business intelligence, Cloudera, mapreduce, NoSQL, Paxata, QlikTech, Tableau | 2 Responses

The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Model – Part IV – Model and Optimize
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on February 1, 2010
This is the fourth in a four part series on the Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Model. Part I covered the strategize and prioritize phase, Part II covered the plan and execute phase , and Part III covered the monitor and analyze phase. In the model and optimize phase of the Performance Management Lifecycle, we […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Sensitivity analysis, Strategic management, Strategic planning

The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Process Model – Part III – Monitor and Analyze
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 18, 2010
In the first installment of this series, we laid out the performance management lifecycle and its four phases. We also explored in detail the first phase of the PM lifecycle, strategize and prioritize, where we develop and set the strategy, plan risks and set KRIs, plan compliance and set controls, and put together strategic action plans and […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Strategic management, Strategic planning

The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Process Model – Part II – Plan and Execute
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 11, 2010
In the previous installment of this series, we laid out the performance management lifecycle and its four phases. We also explored in detail the first phase of the PM lifecycle, strategize and prioritize, where we develop and set the strategy, plan risks and set KRIs, plan compliance and set controls, and put together strategic action plans and […]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged budget, business intelligence, Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Strategic management, Strategic planning, strategy | 1 Response

The Unified Performance, Risk, and Compliance Process Model – Part I – Strategize and Prioritize
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on January 5, 2010
The classic performance management lifecycle that most theorists and practitioners use to describe the continuous cycle of performance improvement consists of four phases: strategize & prioritize, plan & execute, monitor & analyze, and model & optimize. This lifecycle represents the natural stages that most companies go through over and over again as they improve their […]
Posted in Business | Tagged Business, Business process, Management, perfomance management lifecycle, performance management, Risk management, Strategic management, Strategic planning | 4 Responses

The Top 10 Trends for 2010 in Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Performance Management
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on December 1, 2009
In the wake of the long-running massive industry consolidation in the Enterprise Software industry that reached its zenith with the acquisitions of Business Intelligence market leaders Hyperion, Cognos, and Business Objects in 2007, one could certainly have been forgiven for being less than optimistic about the prospects of innovation in the Analytics, Business Intelligence, and […]
Posted in Business | Tagged 2010 predictions, analytics, business intelligence, Business Objects, cognos, Enterprise resource planning, excel, hadoop, hyperion, ibm, mashups, master data management, ms excel, performance management, predictive analysis, SaaS, salesforce.com, sharepoint, spss, varicent, virtualization, workday | 35 Responses
Perspectives from DreamForce ’09: On the current state of SaaS in the Large Enterprise with a focus on current SaaS BI trends
By Nenshad Bardoliwalla on November 24, 2009
I had the pleasure of conducting an interview at the DreamForce ’09 event with Dennis Howlett, who writes the well-written and widely-read Irregular Enterprise blog on ZDNet. The video of the interview is embedded immediately below and a transcript of our discussion follows.
Posted in Business | Tagged business intelligence, chatter, Cloud Computing, Custom Cloud, Dreamforce, SaaS, Sales Cloud, salesforce.com, sap, Service Cloud, software as a service