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Bill Cabiro

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Managing Director, Strat-Wise, LLC

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Bill started Strat-Wise consulting to help strategic business leaders, marketing and sales people utilize Business Intelligence tools to perform strategic and competitive analysis in order to grow their business.

May 22, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 1 other person answered this question

How do you currently measure the adoption and effectiveness of your BI solution?

Some BI tools have built in apps to measure user adoption. User adoption is typically low due to a variety of reasons. http://bit.ly/zHkG4H
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Business Intelligence

May 19, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 4 other people answered this question

How do I create a very basic business intelligence environment?

Adam, Interactive Visual Analytics represents what Gartner Research calls the consumerization of Business Intelligence. It’s a good example of a disruptive innovation or a market changer.
It only takes a few minutes to download the free versions most vendors offer for testing purposes. This is ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

April 25, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 5 other people answered this question

What are the best alternatives to LinkedIn?

Olivier, as others have said it'd help to define your objective and find out if you have been using it in a manner that supports it. Have you seen any of the resources to apply effective strategies to LinkedIn? http://www.powerformula.net/
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Information Technology

April 9, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 3 other people answered this question

What are the best ways to market an IT consultancy online?

I personally find Robert Middleton's approach to marketing consulting services very effective.
http://actionplan.com/home
Regards, Bill

Information Technology

Online Marketing

March 31, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 6 other people answered this question

How thin is the line between business intelligence and business analytics applications?

Lisa, please, feel free to cite my comments as well as the material in my blog and website as you wish.
Regards, Bill
http://blog.strat-wise.com more

Business Analytics

Business Intelligence

Data Governance

Data Management Software

March 24, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 13 other people answered this question

Enterprise software users prefer Excel... what can vendors do about that?

This is a complex issue. Having experienced it first hand, I can comfortably argue both sides of the discussion.
When business users create their own spread-marts (spreadsheet data-marts) it’s simply because corporate BI solutions have failed to deliver what they need.
In many companies BI ... more

Information Technology

Enterprise Software

March 20, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 2 other people answered this question

Will limited user participation impact the likelihood of the business intelligence system development & implementation success?

A successful BI implementation transforms raw data into accurate and relevant strategic knowledge that employees effortlessly access to gain a competitive advantage for the company.
However, according to Gartner, about 80% of Business Intelligence implementations fail.
Low BI utilization rate is a symptom, not the ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Feb. 6, 2012

Bill Cabiro and 9 other people answered this question

What is the fastest and easiest way to implement a BI solution for a small client?

Even in the case of extremely small businesses, a strategic deployment of a Business Intelligence solution can have major impact on the growth and profitability of the company.
Having a clear view of the profitable customers, products, regions and market segments is fundamental to understand ... more

Information Technology

Business Analytics

Business Intelligence

Jan. 26, 2012

Bill Cabiro answered this question

When using the term "analytics," must the analysis be automated?

Steven, I fully understand your point. In the end it’s all relative to how complex, difficult and time consuming some of the manual processes used to be, compared to today’s tools that provide real time, mobile, highly visual and collaborative capabilities. http://blog.strat-wise.com/2011/08/04/what-is-bi-30.aspx
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Analytics Application

Business Analytics

Business Intelligence

Jan. 14, 2012

Bill Cabiro recommends this answer by Robert Keahey

What are some big data analytics companies to keep track of?

Big data is hot, so there's lots of buzz in the industry about traditional and startup companies in this space. There's also lots of different perspectives on what big data is and isn't, so that will make the answers quite interesting I'm sure. My answer ... more

Information Technology

Dec. 29, 2011

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Which divisions within a company can best act on information learned through BI reports?

Business Intelligence analytics crosses customers and many internal teams, but who are the people who can put this data to use? more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Dec. 23, 2011

Bill Cabiro recommends this answer by John McCoy

How should IT leaders address line of business users that develop business applications themselves?

These kinds of ad-hoc solutions are all too common, particularly in enterprise environments.
I think these cases are above all, an important learning opportunity. It’s been said that necessity is the mother of all invention. When we step back and look at these situations, someone ... more

Information Technology

Information Technology Management

IT Security Audit

Dec. 13, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 4 other people answered this question

What is the significance of user participation in business intelligence for the enterprise?

Rimvydas,
I fully agree with you in that external competitive and market intelligence needs to be integrated with internal transaction data; and what better form to do this than using the latest BI/ analytics tools.
In 1984, Kirk Tyson wrote a book called Business Intelligence, ... more

Business Intelligence

Sept. 2, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 18 other people answered this question

What is the number 1 reason why business intelligence projects fail?

According to Gartner, about 80% of Business Intelligence implementations fail; while an Accenture survey of managers in Fortune 500 Companies found that 59% cannot find valuable information they need to do their jobs; 42% accidentally use the wrong information about once a week and 53% ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence Software

Business Intelligence System

Aug. 29, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 9 other people answered this question

Why should SMBs consider investing in BI and which kinds of SMBs don't need it?

Even in the case of extremely small businesses, a strategic deployment of a Business Intelligence solution can have major impact on the growth and profitability of the company.
Having a clear view of the profitable customers, products, regions and market segments is fundamental to understand ... more

Business Intelligence

Business Intelligence & Analytics

Aug. 27, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 21 other people answered this question

How do you decide which customers are more important than others?

Should we treat all customers equally?
If you say yes, I’d suggest reading “Angel Customers & Demon Customers” by Larry Selden & Geoffrey Colvin - Why?
Because in a company that has more than thirty customers, the Pareto Principle will be evident. In a business that is ... more

Customer Service

Customer Experience Management

Aug. 12, 2011

Bill Cabiro answered this question

How can BI vendors encourage end-user adoption? How can vendors make BI easier and more intuitive?

Some vendors are already doing it. There is a new generation of front end BI tools so intuitive to the user that little or no training is necessary. This is a great feature since, according to Gartner, BI users do not want to read manuals. ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

End-user Experience

Information Management

Aug. 11, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 2 other people answered this question

How does a BI framework helps Sales & Marketing

Why is that after the successful deployment of state of the art Business Intelligence software folks in strategic areas of the company still struggle to make sense of the data?
The reason is pretty simple. Strategic Marketing is the headlights of the business; their job is ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Aug. 11, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 1 other person answered this question at this roundtable

Self-Service BI, what does it look like? How do you evolve towards Self-Service BI? [8/9 @ 9:30 am]

Self-service BI interface (front-end) is supposed to be easier to use. What's the magic behind it?

There is no magic. Self-serve data visualization is based on the fact that 70% of the human sensory receptors are dedicated to vision while the other four senses share the remaining 30%. In addition, our brains are much more effective recognizing shapes trends and patterns ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Information Management

Self-service BI

Aug. 11, 2011

Bill Cabiro and 4 other people answered this question at this roundtable

Self-Service BI, what does it look like? How do you evolve towards Self-Service BI? [8/9 @ 9:30 am]

So, can't BI tools be as easy to use as Excel?

The new generation of Self-Serve BI tools is so intuitive to the user that little or no training is necessary. This is a great feature since, according to Gartner, BI users do not want to read manuals. They demand intuitive BI interfaces, in line with ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Information Management

Self-service BI

July 25, 2011

Bill Cabiro answered this question at this roundtable

Self-Service BI, what does it look like? How do you evolve towards Self-Service BI? [8/9 @ 9:30 am]

Are there only casual and power users? Does this dichotomy create any challenges?

Self serve BI represents what some industry experts describe as the consumerization of business intelligence. These front end tools are very intuitive to the user to the point that very little or no training is really necessary. This concept is similar to a Google search ... more

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Information Management

Self-service BI

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