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Summary: Very good book
Review: This book helps you to understand how important is the positive impact of business intelligence in your company
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Summary: MUST READ!
Review: This book is a great read for anyone trying to transform their traditional brick and mortar company for the internet. This book does not cover the common "transaction" focused e-business information; it introduces new thinking on the critical information side of e-business. I've given this book to my executive team as required reading. I look forward to Liautaud's next book.
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Summary: Clear Perspectives on How to Turn Data into Advantages
Review: This book is rare in my experience. It is helpful to both the executive who wants to develop important customer and competitive advantages and to the CIO who has to plan the company's electronic capabilities. The book succeeds in doing this in a way that will improve the dialogue and effectiveness of technical and nontechnical executives in working together to improve their organization's knowledge and ability to make good use of it. Beyond that, the book is well-founded in a vision of individuals (at work and at home) being able to interrogate data bases to find better ways to do things, and then cooperating with other people to save time and money.Business intelligence software basically does two things: First, it pulls off data from other databases so that relevant information is all together in a usable form. Two, it contains simple query tools that allow anyone to ask a wide variety of ad hoc questions and get quick answers back. Think of this as being like turning a large business into the simplicity of a one-person operation being run by the owner. The strength of the book comes in the many detailed examples from around the world of companies in different industries using business intelligence software to improve themselves, their customers, and suppliers. The examples come from companies of many different sizes, dealing with different kinds of problems, and having varying degrees of technical sophistication. These are presented in some detail in sidebars that are highlighted in gray backgrounds so that they are easy to find. I intend to recommend this book to all of my clients, which is something I seldom do. The writing in this book deserves special praise. Mr. Liautaud and Hammond have done a very careful and thorough job of taking complex ideas and breaking them down into simple words, concepts, lists, and examples. They have done this without "talking down" to the reader, and the material is consistently interesting. Mr. Hammond deserves special credit for understanding the advanced thinking of Mr. Liautaud that has led to the development of an entire industry around helping companies expand their e-business intelligence. I am often annoyed by books written by CEOs of companies that have services to sell. The books often come across as one big piece of advertising or brochureware. Although the examples here come from Business Objects clients, I did not have that negative reaction to this book at all. After you finish this book, you will realize that the key thing to getting benefit from e-business intelligence is to ask better questions once you have the databases and query tools in place to do your own interrogations. I suggest that you start asking those questions now. You may find that some can be answered simply and quickly without bogging down the IT department, and you will obtain the benefits sooner. What's even better is that you will find ways to start thinking in improved ways about your business sooner. Enjoy the benefits that follow naturally from having all of us know more and be able to ask more . . . to extend our knowledge into improved forms of profitable intelligence!
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Summary: Great intro to e-business intelligence
Review: This book is really great intro to e-business intelligence. It basically explains the technologies used, from what are OLAP, ROLAP and MOLAP technologies, to data warehousing. The book is also full of real life practical examples of deployment of busines intelligence technology and the benefits which the technology brought to its implementors. Recommended reading for all people interested in unleashing the power of information, which lies mostly hidden or unused all around the enterprise.
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Summary: Great intro to e-business intelligence
Review: This book is really great intro to e-business intelligence. It basically explains the technologies used, from what are OLAP, ROLAP and MOLAP technologies, to data warehousing. The book is also full of real life practical examples of deployment of busines intelligence technology and the benefits which the technology brought to its implementors. Recommended reading for all people interested in unleashing the power of information, which lies mostly hidden or unused all around the enterprise.
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Summary: Should be read by all managers!
Review: This book was written for managers in mind. This book does not cover technical details of data warehouses or data mining. Given its scope this book accomplishes its task efficiently, with no real wasted anecdotes and personal opinions. The author a well-known expert on business objects really displays his ability to convey the information accurately and illustrates his points well. This will aid any manager get up to speed on the missing information sources that can occur in any business and apply them to their own business. Overall, this book accomplishes what it intends to do and that is to inform the reader on the various methods a business can utilize information to gain efficiency and a competitive advantage in the marketplace.
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Summary: Understanding what e-intelligence enables
Review: This is a book for people that want to understand e-intelligence and what statistics can do for your website. It helps you plan your roadmap for the coming years, rather than an itemized action plan.
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Summary: terrific read for business information strategy
Review: This is a great book for anyone thinking about business strategy in the "information age", and trying to figure out how to best leverage the mountains of data in every company. I particularly liked how international this book is -- it features examples from more than just a few of companies in the US, but includes organizations across Europe as well (Fiat and British Airways along with US brands MasterCard and eBay). I was a big fan of customers.com, and this book is right up there on my list.
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Summary: A great book
Review: This is a great book. I teach and research business intelligence and I found the book to be a great read. It presents a very up-to-date understanding and set of conceptualizations for what is going on in the BI world. The company examples are also great.
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Summary: A must for business decision makers and developers!
Review: This was a great read! There are different aspects to e-business intelligence and this explains everything clearly. It provides great detail and examples with real customers one can relate to. The whole book flows right along and is very informative.
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