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Microstrategy aligns with Facebook as part of its social intelligence strategy

At its BI Symposium in London last week Microstrategy outlined its product and marketing strategy based along four key pillars: Social, Big Data, Mobile and Cloud. While Microstrategy isn’t the only BI and analytics company to push these themes (in fact I’m hard pushed to think of many vendors who don’t) its attention to Social [...]

Posted on Wednesday, November 2, 2011 by

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Social graphs? Puh-lease.

There’s lots of pseudo-intellectual waffle about social graphs out there at the moment, largely in relation to Facebook (and its implementation of an advertisement-supported business model based on the information it holds about people, their connections, and their interests). Can we just call it a database, and move on?

Posted on Friday, November 9, 2007 by

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Time to be honest about SaaS

I thought that those of you who aren’t recipients of our monthly newsletter might be interested in this commentary (penned by the other Neil) dissecting some of the problems with the definition (or lack thereof) of software-as-a-service. Over the past few days we’ve been having an interesting debate here at MWD, in conjunction with the [...]

Posted on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 by