Full closed loop BI functionality across mobile and social networks has now become feasible, allowing enterprise BI to deliver even greater business value. MicroStrategy now makes full use of interactive closed loop capabilities to deliver even greater value from the data residing both within and outside an enterprise. Within an enterprise, mobile adds a new […]
Mark Bannerman
Mark Bannerman joined MicroStrategy as country manager at the start of 2011 to lead the fast-growing local operations based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Bannerman’s goal at the global provider of business intelligence software is to help companies get insight into their organisations and to use that to make meaningful decisions. Bannerman was previously the business user manager at SAP, which he joined when it acquired Business Objectives.
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Business Intelligence’s social evolution
In this information age, the businesses that have the best relationship with their data are the businesses most likely to succeed. And over a very short space of time, as the amount of data has grown exponentially and the ability to access information becomes more urgent, this relationship between businesses and data has shifted from […]
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2011: The year of big data
This was the year of big data. In the last two to three years we have accumulated more data than ever before[1]. This provides both a challenge and an opportunity for companies, and the ones who get it right fastest are going to lead the pack. There are three trends related to this growth in […]
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Like, so now what?
As brand warriors battle it out on the social media platform for consumer favour, “Like” has shed its identity as a plain old verb in the English dictionary to become a sought-after means of creating a following of potential brand champions … and buyers. Social media is definitely one of the biggest trends of this […]