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I possess an accent which seems to fox most voice recognition systems.  I suppose the closest that it comes to that most non-British people will have heard is that of the Arctic Monkeys, since S...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/microsoft-voicemail-transcription-comedy/

  As a member of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 Working Group 4 (which Mr Norbert Bollow of the Swiss mirror committee somewhat bizarrely refers to as “so-called”) and someone directly implicated in his ...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/why-do-we-need-serial-dates-in-the-transitional-form-of-is-29500/

Apologies to my Business Intelligence readers, this post is pretty esoteric and refers to some strange goings on in the document standards world. Apologies also to Rick Jelliffe, any resemblance ...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/on-the-scalability-of-a-standard-time-for-a-weirotron/

Update: The articles are once again behind the IBM paywall.  Going to assume that is the policy from now on until something official from IBM says otherwise.  Lame. I hate the way that when new...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/ibm-reinstates-access-to-seminal-bi-dw-works/

Yesterday Jos Van Dongen (@JosVanDongen) discovered that H.P. Luhn’s seminal paper on Business Intelligence, dating from 1958 was no longer accessible from IBM.  (Edit: See also the ur-post fr...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/ibm-silences-its-business-intelligence-pioneers/

With thanks to Barney Finucane (Twitter:bfinucane) for the inspiration. A tweet from Barney led me to daydream about a fantasy scenario with Larry Ellison and Richard Stallman on Ellison’s yach...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oracle-king-of-open-source/

There is a lot of talk about how AAS, especially in BI, is going to dominate 2009, mainly due to low startup costs and the hope of expert analysis of any organization’s c...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/anything-as-a-service-paranoia/

As promised in the Mini-Summary, which was written in some haste to appease those who weren’t enjoying the 24-hour party city that isn’t The Hague, a little (in fact, rather a lot) more on wh...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/gartner-bi-summit-part-2/

Not going to be a long post, this, but wanted to get a few things down. Will edit/append later with some info from other sessions. Look at my Twitter feed also for some snippets. Keynote: ‘The ...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/gartner-bi-summit-mini-summary/

Business Intelligence is a term that covers a multitude of sins.  It is also a term which is extremely open to interpretation, depending on your viewpoint, technology mastery, user skillset and ...

https://aristippus303.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/does-bi-terminology-need-a-standards-organization/