Inteltrax: Top Stories, July 4 to July 8
July 11, 2011
Inteltrax, the data fusion and business intelligence information service, captured three key stories germane to search this week, particularly the ups and downs of corporations dipping their feet into the business intelligence pool.
We kicked off the week looking at a decidedly negative aspect of this theme. In the feature story, “Ticketmaster and Ticketfly Woefully Behind Other Analytics,” http://inteltrax.com/2011/07/ticketmaster-ticketfly-woefully-behind-other-analytics/ we were shocked to discover how poorly ticketing giants are using the wealth of data they are sitting on top of.
Computing kingpin, Apple, also seems to be playing with analytic fire with its BI security. Our story, “Apple Fails to Protect its BI Passwords,” http://inteltrax.com/?p=1923 took a deep look at how Steve Jobs and company failed to protect sensitive BI info and showcased a clutch of companies that could do the job the right way.
However, some big companies are coming to rescue struggling industries. We highlighted this exciting phenomenon in “Google and Others Aim to Rescue Newspapers,” http://inteltrax.com/?p=1919 the story of how the search monster’s Google Analytics and smaller companies are tailoring analytic software to make newspapers more efficient.
These stories all look at analytics and business intelligence with a wide angle lens. We do this because our data is being transformed into power right before our eyes and the people making the biggest noises, unsurprisingly, are the biggest companies. That doesn’t mean they’re the only ones doing something worthwhile, though, and we’re going to cover this revolution from all angles, great and small.
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Patrick Roland, Editor, Inteltrax, July 11, 2011
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