Seven Methods for Transforming Corporate Data Into Business Intelligence

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Summary: Two Books, Identical Content
Review: These authors have also written a book titled "Intelligent Decision Support Methods". The two books ("Seven Methods" and "Intelligent Decision Support") are virtually identical. They have the same content, the same graphics, the same layout, the same case studies. The basic content (first 202 of 250 pages) is word for word, page for page IDENTICAL. The ONLY diffference between the 2 books is that "7 Methods" includes suggested solutions for the case studies (adding about 1 page for each of the 7 case studies). Do NOT buy "Intelligent Decision Support Methods". It is twice as expensive (hard cover vs soft cover) with no benefit.

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Summary: Do not buy this book
Review: This book is not intended for line of business managers that want to really gain insight from data.

It goes into stuff that does not really apply to business needs: brain simulation, neural networks, artificial intelligence. Also, most of the data transformation/usage examples are shallow.

jlpreza
Wien, Osterreich