In my on-going effort to uncover and discuss key BI industry trends, I recently authored a new article for my TDWI column (called “The BI Revolution”), under the same headline as this post.  In that article, I focused on the big market that will emerge for BI in the cloud.  [...]

If competing based on time and information really will drive the next major economic era, then Big Data is real and represents a huge opportunity.  If you’re a business analyst or technologist responsible for mapping data to decisions, then the variety, velocity, and volume of data available to you today has never [...]

For the last ten years, I’ve been partially obsessed with the notion that the formula for creating economic value needs to be updated.  I’ve worked in the technology industry for 26 years and I’ve seen information systems radicall
y change the landscape of competition and value creation.  My most recent article on this [...]

I’ve been writing about how important it is to build and deliver big data projects that can succeed, because the opportunity to do so has never been better and the business reasons to do so have never been more compelling.  Seems like each week, more tools and products are available to make big, complex data [...]

Will we look back at 2011 and think of it as “the year of Big Data”?  This does feel like the year when organizations can genuinely take advantage of the opportunity presented by big data - harnessing its volume, variety and velocity - in both concept and implementation.
The venture capital and investment community has been [...]

So much has been written in the past week chronicling the life and leadership of Steve Jobs.  One of my favorite articles actually distills 12 lessons from his life.  No doubt, he created enormous value for his investors, customers, employees, and partners and literally enriched countless lives along the way.  I hope to add another [...]

Having the right piece of knowledge at the right time is pure gold in business.  I rarely speak with a commercial Jaspersoft customer without hearing a fascinating anecdote about how they are using our BI tools to make new insight emerge quickly and affordably within their organization.  Of course, this is what we are in [...]

Congratulations to Matt Geise, who was just named Jaspersoft’s Open Source Community Development leader.  Matt’s job is to build, nurture, and enable a thriving Community of open source business intelligence software fanatics.  It’s a big job and Matt is just the right person to lead our next generation of work with the Jaspersoft Community.
In his [...]

We’ve been thinking and talking about this since 2006, fundamentally driven by the belief that the Eclipse community deserves best-in-class reporting and unfettered access to a complete BI suite that doesn’t necessarily require a commercial license.  To do this right, we always knew that our flagship report design tool (iReport) would need to be re-built [...]

I’ve spent a meaningful number of days in 2011 traveling the globe. Following on from our JasperWorld conference (February, San Francisco) and other events in the United States, I’ve met with customers and spoke at conferences in Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Germany, Holland, Austria, London and Paris. In all my conversations, what I’m struck by [...]