It's been a while since I've written a blog because I've spent most of the summer working on our Cloud Computing for Dummies book along with Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor and Marcia Kaufman. I did, however, post a short blog about premise vs....

Over the past few days, I got a chance to speak to two different companies in the business analytics space about data in the cloud. One was a SaaS provider, the other an enterprise software vendor. Two vendors, two different stories that...

Visualization can change the way that we look at data and information. If that data contains a geographic/geospatial component then utilizing location information can help provide a new layer of insight for certain kinds of analysis. Location...

I had an interesting chat with Roman Stanek, CEO of Good Data last week about the debate over data security and reliability in the cloud. For those of you who are not familiar with Good Data, it provides a collaborative business analytics platform...