Author Archives: Rob Lautt

Dashboards stir up excitement, but come with hidden costs Dashboards’ colorful, graphical decision-making content with visual cues promise to allow decision makers to bypass the spreadsheets and monthly report books, skip the time-consuming analysis, and simply click to expose their … Continue reading →

… and still the best kept secret in Business Intelligence?  Apparently so! With this current release of A3 Modeling, version 2011.1 there is no highly anticipated marketing “Launch”, no public celebration, no popping corks on Champaign bottles. Just another maintenance release … Continue reading →

In Which Our Daring Cavalier Explains His Advantages, Even Against Enemies Larger and Stronger than He Fear. Uncertainty. Doubt. The ability to paint a picture of risk in working with the smaller vendor is the stock-in-trade of every enterprise salesperson. For … Continue reading →

In Which Our Knight Errant Explores the Two Primary CPM Solution Types Certainly the out-of-the-box, plug & play package that is up and running in minutes must be lower total cost than the flexible and highly configurable alternatives. All of the decisions … Continue reading →

Ouch! I just read more closely the Wikipedia article on Corporate Performance Management linked in my last post. Actually, there is no wiki-entry for CPM. CPM searches are redirected to Business Performance Management, aka BPM, and the piece is painful … Continue reading →

What do CPM, ROI, and Don Quixote have in common? Well, their meanings have been diluted, and the powerful ideas they stand for have been undermined and distorted. In addition, I am a passionate fan of all three, so for the foreseeable … Continue reading →