Together with my co-founder Hans Lodder I regularly discuss the level of interest you show in our Results2Match community blogs. Since we are not aiming to be bestseller authors, the absolute number a blog is read is not the measure for our “success” (although it is nice to be read by a lot of peers!). More important is that we do try to listen to our audience as to identify topics that seem worthwhile to address.

In my last blog I explored the Data Governance world and was surprised about the rather “inside out” look by most of the published theory focusing on the structured corporate data contained in enterprise systems. Since the majority of the corporate information is not-structured and is free floating on portable appliances, I looked for interesting solutions that are emerging to resolve this high risk.

Were you ever involved in a project which started brilliantly? And then, all of a sudden, things go out of control? The project breaks down, and control never returns to you. And you ask your self the question: How did I get here, in this situation? And, where did I go wrong?

My attention was drawn to the outcome of a research performed by Forrester in which it was concluded that CIO's are using to many BI solutions, making them taking decisions on too many and too different analysis outcomes. The result of the research didn't surprise me at all. What did was the statement that CIO's think the reason is the difficulty of integrating the various BI solutions. I think this is turning the world upside down.