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Three ways to deliver intelligence data

25-Jul-10

Many IT companies and consultants define three ways to present business intelligence data.
In an ‘unstructured investigative’ environment you build a database of information that is available to specialist staff. These analysts use the data to answer one-off or infrequent business questions. Analysis techniques include visualisation, data mining and modelling. The quality of analysis often depends [...]

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Business processes

12-Jan-09

As I ponder the manyseveral challenges of a current project — which aims to convert “80 per cent of all our forms into machine-readable format” — this Wondermark cartoon reminds me that forms are only one small part of any business process or transaction.

Similarly, the Dilbert strip for 21 December 2008 has a particular resonance [...]

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Focusing on what really matters

01-Dec-08

In a short Educause Review article, Christine L Borgman describes several types of academic activity that are being profoundly influenced by information technologies:

information-intensive scholarship
data-intensive scholarship
distributed scholarship
collaborative scholarship
multidisciplinary scholarship

Collectively, these are known as e-scholarship practices. They are types of academic behavior. They are not descriptions of the tools or technologies used in that behavior.
If academic librarians [...]

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