Tag Archives: Business intelligence

May 16, 2013 Posted in Business 1 Comment

EdgeSpring and the Democratization of Business Intelligence

By Ben Kepes

Making sense from the ever-increasing quantities of raw data available to us is a recurring theme in the companies I speak with. Indeed one of my theses when looking at companies is to search for fabrics that span multiple disparate systems and bring sense to them. Business Intelligence is one

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November 13, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Chart.io Goes GA, Lots of New Partnerships

By Ben Kepes

I spent some time yesterday talking to Chart.io, a company laser-focused on being an interface for organizational data. That’s a complex way of saying that Chart.io aims to take raw data out of different applications and databases and give organizations a pallet of tools with which to create illustrative charts

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August 28, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

By Ben Kepes

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always struck me that there is a lot of value left on

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August 15, 2012 Posted in Business 1 Comment

Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

By Ben Kepes

Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data is. For me, I’ll revert to Wikipedia and it’s definition which

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August 6, 2012 Posted in Business Leave a comment

Allena Aims to Deliver Plain English BI Insights for Salesforce Users

By Ben Kepes

Recently I received an email from Saqib Waqar, CEO of Allena, an interesting new vendor in the “plain English BI” space. Waqar comes from an ERP background having created custom ERP solutions for several customers. Waqar made contact after seeing content I’d written about two other BI players, YouCalc (eventually

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Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. Ben covers the convergence of technology, mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.

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