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“According to recent global research by the Aberdeen Group, 57% of business intelligence (BI) projects are delivered late.” – itweb.co.za article. 57%! That is incredible, and not in a good way. The article goes on to explain a bit more, saying that: “64% of business managers have seen their decision window shrink in the past …

There is at least one IS2 employee here who isn’t really religious but still sees Lent as a great way to cut out excess in his life. This year, it seems to be red meat (we’ll see how long that lasts). Though many of us here would be hard pressed to give up bacon for …

It’s been over two months since we received our beloved kegerator, and it’s about time it got some proper blog love. After all, it’s already survived a house warming party, the holidays, the Superbowl, and multiple beer Fridays (and some Thirsty Thursdays). The model is The Beverage-Air DD50, though we affectionately call her “Winnie” as a …

Sales Goals are an excellent metric for tracking your team’s performance. But sales (or booked deals) are a lagging indicator. What happens when you need a leading indicator of performance? Enter Activity Goal tracking. This new dashboard will track how each employee is performing against his/her activity goals. What activities are tracked? That’s up to your …

Measuring and compensating your sales team by quota is not only common, it’s a best practice. Yet tracking an employee against goal for various date ranges, various goal levels over a year, and multiplying this by as many employees as you have…can be a pain in the neck. We’ve made it easy: Now you can …

Say you’re a CEO. You want to know how much each of your divisions has sold in the last 12 months. Our Bookings report has had the ability to be sliced by Client or by Employee. Well now you can also slice by Team: At a glance, you can see how each of your teams …

We like to harp on data errors by humans, but sometimes the opposite is true too. Here are 6 human errors by Star Trek‘s Data. 6. Succumbing to Emotions This is about as human an error as it gets. In episode “Brothers,” Data got a hardware upgrade [Ed. note: downgrade?] from Dr. Soong in the form of …