Its been quiet some time since I started blogging and so I was perplexed when I initially had to think about what to blog. And of course this is the first time that I am blogging about a class/lecture and hence I am totally lost. Yet random thoughts continue to flow in my brain as I pen them down.
The first thing that pops into my mind about this course is "8:00 A.M" lecture !!!!! Yes it's been more than half a decade since I had attended a lecture as early as this. But of course the fact that this course seems to involve more interactive sessions so for sure I am not going to feel sleepy!!! All these things apart the course structure seems very comprehensive and is set to engross me for the next 16 weeks.
Business intelligence is a buzz word today in the industry. In a virtual world dominated by FLAT (Facebook, Linkedin, Amazon and Twitter), companies are continuously faced with the uphill task of making sense of the deluge of data that is publicly available on the internet. Every business knows that this data has a lot of implications to it but they lack the intelligence to make the maximum sense from it. Hence I would say the intelligence required to make this data sensible to the business is what Business intelligence is all about. If so the obvious question that comes into picture is "When did this Business Intelligence start and how did it start?" I am sure people reading this blog are perplexed now and hence I would say this is a question for discussion in the next lecture.
I would conclude this short blog with a set of some websites that I feel are the most important ones I came across in this week. I would welcome suggestions from people to add to this body of knowledge
Basics of Business Intelligence
(1) Wikipedia
(5) Google Adwords
(6) Google+
Interesting News Articles
I like the word "FLAT" ha~ More people are living in this FLAT world, some are surfing around, some are lost.
ReplyDeletethat's a beautiful summation - FLAT! And the articles provide good reading.
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