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Social Business Intelligence: Positioning a Strategic Lens on Opportunity

Social Business Intelligence: Positioning a Strategic Lens on Opportunity

By Dion Hinchcliffe on September 1, 2011

Recently I’ve been tracking the growth of social analytics and the means of delivering well on it. Connecting it to the needs of the business is the next step beyond basics of collating, aggregating, and identifying patterns in what the world is doing that affects your organization. On ZDNet recently, I explored the rapidly growing trend of big data. Collectively, big data represents a set of highly innovative new ways that companies are developing to distill value from the sheer scale, richness, and complexity of today’s vast networks of people and their data, of which the Internet is just the biggest example. It is social media in particular, however, where big data and business value intersect.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged actionable insight, aggregation, Analysis, big analytics, Blog Post, CIO, CMO, Community, customer care, Data mining, Facebook, fast data, innovation, Insight, knowledge, listening, marketing, monitoring, operations, optimization, patterns, sentiment, social analytics, social BI, social business, Social Business Intelligence, Social CRM, Social Media, trends, trendspotting, Twitter | 5 Responses

Tuesday’s Tip: How To Compare Total Ownership Costs

Tuesday’s Tip: How To Compare Total Ownership Costs

By R "Ray" Wang on May 11, 2010

Apps Strategy Options Abound And Organizations Need Accurate Comparison Methodologies

Recent inquiries from blog readers and client engagements highlight a growing need to compare the cost of apps strategies. Common comparison scenarios often include:

Posted in Business | Tagged 3PM, adoption, Apps Strategy, CIO, Cloud, custom apps, customization, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, enterprise strategy, implementation, on-premise, optimization, packaged apps, renewal, ROI, SaaS, selection, single instance, single instance erp, software as a service, software ownership lifecycle, Third Party Maintenance, two tier, two-tier ERP, upgrade, upgrades

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List - Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

Tuesday’s Tip: The SAP Optimization List – Key Ecosystem Vendors You Should Know

By R "Ray" Wang on January 6, 2010

High Cost Of Ownership And Changing Requirements Drive SAP Users To Seek Optimization Solutions As users await SAP to regain its mojo (see Dennis Howlett’s post) and implement it’s “Voice of the Customer” strategy in 2010, users must continue to reduce their cost of ownership and complexity (see Figure 1).  In addition, rapidly changing business […]

Posted in Technology / Software | Tagged 3PM, adobe, ALM, application extension and usability, application life cycle management, Apps Strategy, archiving, CIO, cost reduction, customer experience management, disaster recovery, DR, EMC, enterprise applications, Enterprise apps strategy, enterprise software, ERP-Link, Friday's Feature, GuiXT, HA, Hayes Technology, high availability, Hyperformix, ibm, IBM Optim, IntelliCorp, license management, license policy, license returns, long term apps strategy, maintenance fees, Microsoft integration, Microsoft Office, optimization, partner ecosystems, RainStor, rimini street, sap, SAP Duet, secondary market, shelfware, software bill of rights, software licensing, software licesing and pricing, software pricing, Storage, SusenSoftware, Synactive, The SAP Optimization List, Third Party Maintenance, Tidal Software, Tuesday's Tip, ue, ui, upgrades, usability, used software, UsedSoft, User Experience, user interaction, user strategy, users, virtualization, VM Ware, VMware, West Trax, Winshuttle | 3 Responses

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