Google Analytics arguably came into being when Google acquired Urchin Software Corp back in 2005, developing it into Google branded tool before refining it into asynchronous model to increase page load times.Over the last 5 years Google Analytics...
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All posts for March 2011
Open Group Conference on World Class EA and Cloud Computing
By Rick Mans
This is a guest post by Venkat Korukonapalli, Venkat is a Senior consultant and enterprise architect in Capgemini India and you can follow him on Facebook, LinkedIn, or his WordPress blog where this post was previously published.The Open Group India...
Read moreThe Blending Philosophies of Lean and Agile
By gverheye
Some management philosophies should not be mixed. Because the unique flavor of the ingredients will get lost in the mix. As well as the benefits.Lean is a powerful but typical mindset (see The Power of Lean Thinking). But does that automatically...
Read moreICF and social management or crowd sourcing the easy way
By Rick Mans
This is a guest post by Vladimir Baranek, he is currently Enterprise Architect with Capgemini. His role includes strategy development, architecture design and infrastructure implementation. Vladimir has published a number of articles on Cloud...
Read morePrezi: fun tool, just not for me
By adoezela
This blog post is not about why you should use Prezi or why you shouldn’t. This blog post is about what Prezi can do for you and what it can’t.First of all, what is Prezi? Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that...
Read moreThe business case for good typography online
The Internet is still in its infancy. Typography, however, is not. Typography is a fully adult mechanism of communication that has been around since the first cave paintings started to look more like letters than buffaloes and men with...
Read moreThere is no "single" customer view
By Steve Jones
One of the bits that happens around MDM is that people talk about a "single customer view" that everyone in the business will use. My colleague Simon Gratton today made a great, and often over looked point. Whose view? You see the point is that...
Read moreManagement Data Master (MDM) – Back to the Future!
By skanthad
Management Data Master (MDM) – Back to the Future! Let me be upfront, I am a self proclaimed “dinosaur” from the good old days of computing (YES, I was a COBOL programmer). But over the years having watched technology grow and change and...
Read moreHow come my Facebook page doesn't have a million fans?
I often get this questions when I help organisations: "who doesn't have our Facebook page a million fans ?" (number of 'likes' on a page). Which isn't a weird question, since Starbucks has quite some fans (nearly 20 million at this moment), Disney...
Read moreData Quality – Collaboration is Key
In my previous post I discussed how an organization should leverage data quality scorecards within their environment. The purpose of this was two-fold, as it provided a starting point for ensuring collaboration between the business and IT groups...
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