Here’s a classic story which you have probably seen but which I believe serves to illustrate, tongue firmly in cheek, the importance of business intelligence in any business. A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings.

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There seems to be no disputing spreadsheets will be a part of the future and will play an increasingly important role as a central player to BI roll outs of the future. But how many people actually know the history of spreadsheets, where they came from, what different vendors have come and gone before we […]

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We are now well on our way in pursuit of that holy grail of SaaS offerings – subscribers! Our intention is to target a select group of people with the same BI frustrations and which businesses will benefit from our service. Enter the Sage50 users who have desperately been seeking a BI solution but just […]

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I had a great conversation this week with Julian Shaw of http://www.arithmo.co.uk/ , which is a new accounting vendor in the “cloud” the UK. The fact that they have created an excellent accounting solution online is nothing new, but what I really enjoyed was discussing how he actually aims to get traffic to use his solution.

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Everyone has been watching the “cloud” services space and more specifically what the Microsoft response will be to Google online apps and the Amazon EC2 services infrastructure – and the silence has been deafening – until now. At the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference they have finally announced their play in the form of their Microsoft […]

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Microsoft Excel is here to stay. I know similar predictions of immortality were made of, for example, the typewriter , and as recently as 20 years ago no one thought that the fixed line telcoms would be at risk of becoming extinct, so maybe in 10 years time I will look back on this post […]

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Does anyone really know what “cloud computing” is apart from a lot of hype? Its time vendors actually started stating the reason for the creation of their solution and what functions resolve which real user problems. Saying cloud computing is the answer to the new world is a bit like someone in the 1950’s saying […]

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Are there any right answers to the current issue facing BI regarding the relevance of BI for mid sized businesses? Last year all of the big players in the BI space “consolidated”, Hyperion with Oracle, Business Objects with SAP and Cognos with IBM. The spin doctors wrote of leveraging relationships to mine existing revenue possibilities […]

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So midway through the beta phase of our SaaS solution, it struck me that what we have actually created is an incredibly powerful piece of technology that does all the things that the SaaS gurus (if anyone can claim to be one so early in the life cycle) say it will ie Global Reach, Frictionless […]

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I saw someone on another blog the other day say “think of SaaS like you do of bungie jumping, at first no one wanted to do it but now even your granny does it”, which I thought was a great way to sum up the rising tide of SaaS. I share this view and apply it […]

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