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Living in the Present is SO Yesterday

Living in the Present is SO Yesterday

By Merv Adrian on August 7, 2010

It’s an occupational hazard of living in the future that analysts can begin to ignore the present – unless we make it a practice to seek it out. Here in the Valley, that can be difficult, when being a week behind the latest version of something the rest of the world hasn’t heard of yet […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged ADBMS, Amazon, analyst relations, ibm, Industry Analysts, kindle, Mirchandani, oracle, Research Industry, Vendor image and communications | 1 Response

White Paper Sponsorship and Labeling

White Paper Sponsorship and Labeling

By Merv Adrian on August 1, 2010

My friend Curt Monash has taken Oracle to task for the way it labels its web pages that contain download links for analyst reports, and I took some collateral damage in the process. It was embarrassing to me, but an important discussion, and I thought I ought to share some ideas about the whole issue. […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged analyst relations, Curt Monash, disclosure, oracle, Research Industry, Sponsorship, technology research, White paper | 2 Responses

Decoding BI Market Share Numbers – Play Sudoku With Analysts

Decoding BI Market Share Numbers – Play Sudoku With Analysts

By Merv Adrian on July 21, 2010

In a recent post I discussed Oracle’s market share in BI, based on a press-published chart taken from IDC data – showing Oracle coming in second. As often happens in such discussions, I got quite a few direct emails and twitter messages – some in no uncertain terms – about why the particular metric I […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analyst relations, analytics, BI, business intelligence, data integration, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Dataquest, enterprise performance management, Explorer, gartner, hyperion, ibm, idc, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, OBIEE, OLAP, oracle, performance management, Research Industry, sap, SAS, technology research, Vendor image and communications | 5 Responses

Oracle Sets Sights on BI Leadership. Has it Picked the Right Target?

Oracle Sets Sights on BI Leadership. Has it Picked the Right Target?

By Merv Adrian on July 13, 2010

Oracle is not first in BI, and wants to change that – that was the clear message of a well executed, multi-site “real plus virtual” event with top executives showing off the result of a multi-year effort to rationalize and integrate a set of leading but overlapping components into a seamless suite. Oracle Business Intelligence […]

Posted in Business | Tagged analytics, BAO, BI, business intelligence, Business Objects, data integration, Data Warehousing, Essbase, Forrester, gartner, Goldengate, HyperRoll, ibm, microsoft, MIcroStrategy, MOLAP, OBIEE, OLAP, oracle, predictive analytics, Research Industry, ROLAP, sap, SAS, Software infrastructure, software licensing, Sybase, TimesTen, TM1, ULA, Vendor image and communications

Include All Comments on Blog? No. But Please – Jump In!

Include All Comments on Blog? No. But Please – Jump In!

By Merv Adrian on June 3, 2010

I post and respond to all substantive comments.  But I’ve had questions from readers who didn’t see theirs. Understandably, they wanted to know why. Here’s how I handle comments: If they are about the content – they go up. Agree, disagree, it’s all good. Dialogue is exactly the point. If they are just “I liked […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Akismet, blogging, Comment Spam, Research Industry, The Computing Life, wordpress | 2 Responses

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