Archive for September, 2006

Airlines providing Business Intelligence?

I’m sure it happens all the time that company brands are mixed up. I just found another case where SAS Institute has been mistakenly connected with SAS Scandinavian Airlines. In a recent Handelsblatt article, the author writes about companies struggling with BI software, because there aren’t any standard tools, and no governance. When Yahoo Finance [...]

UK travel regulations

Flew to Edinburgh today and can confirm that travelling within the UK is not much fun at the moment. I fully understand and support security measures, after all, with my kinda airmiles accumulation, I want air travel to be safe. However, some of those rules imposed by the BAA, are bordering on ridiculous. I [...]

¡Ninguna calidad de los datos!

Just returned from two weeks of conferencing in Sao Paulo and Mexico City. It’s been great to interact with folks that I typically don’t see or talk to very much, bankers from Venezuela, local government CIOs from Monterrey, IT managers from Mexican car distributors, or Brazilian information architects from shipping companies.
Companies in Latin America and [...]