From the domosapiens
Musings, insights and creative solutions from the team at Domo.
Monthly Archives: August 2011
Monday
August 29, 2011
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
With any good 12-step program, admitting there's a problem is … well, you know. But when it comes to business intelligence, sometimes that admission is hard to come by …
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Thursday
August 25, 2011
Thamina Christensen
Marketing Project Manager
“The problem we have is generating reports from our 26 different states who all use different data sources.” As I listened to this Director of Business Intelligence from a Swiss company at the recent TDWI Conference in San Diego …
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Tuesday
August 23, 2011
Dan Roden
Director of Marketing Experience
I am 35 years old and I have never had a massage. Crazy? Maybe. I like to think I know what I am doing. The fact of the matter is I am quite certain I would love the experience, but I don't want to "need" the experience to the tune of $50-$100/month. I know friends …
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Wednesday
August 17, 2011
Julie Kehoe
VP of Communications
Last weekend, I drew the short straw and won the honors of setting up the wireless network at home. (We recently moved.) I've done the wireless network thing before and it's never been fun or easy. In fact …
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Tuesday
August 16, 2011
Mark Christensen
Director, OEM Programs
I was recently thinking back to a panel I was on with a VP at SAP discussing Business Intelligence (BI) and what makes companies best-in-class. The moderator was a leading BI analyst. The topic of discussion was …
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Monday
August 15, 2011
Shawn Dickerson
Director of Marketing
Domo just wrapped up a week at the Infosys Connect conference – a global gathering of Infosys consultants, Global 2000 customers and industry analysts – where our company was a platinum sponsor. The week featured …
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Thursday
August 11, 2011
Jeff Burtenshaw
VP Community Platform
SAP recently unveiled their Hana offering which is an exciting new data storage technology and started another chapter in the big data, high performance computing saga — a sector now getting lots of attention from the BI industry. And rightly so …
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Wednesday
August 10, 2011
Dan Roden
Director of Marketing Experience
As a young boy in the mid-80’s, I often found myself cheering the G.I. JOE team during their epic battles against the evil Cobra organization. At the end of each episode, after hundreds of laser blasts that never seemed to hit anything and the only casualty being Cobra Commander’s ego due to another foiled plot of world domination, there was a short range of scenes dedicated to the life instruction of the JOE followers …
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Tuesday
August 9, 2011
Gary Gibb
Director Product Management
In a recent customer survey we asked how many unique key performance indicators (KPIs) they use in their company. We had choices from under 10 KPIs to over 1,000 KPIs. This chart shows the results of the survey …
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Monday
August 8, 2011
Jeff Burtenshaw
VP Community Platform
A few days ago, Daren my boss and CTO of Domo called an afternoon meeting with all of his directs. This is not an uncommon event but this meeting had a twist. Daren had just returned from a business trip in New York where he had also squeezed in a visit to his beloved Yankee stadium. The twist is …
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