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Nenshad Bardoliwalla, co-author of Driven to Perform: Risk-Aware Performance Management From Strategy Through Execution will be delivering the keynote address at TDWI's Chapter Seminar in New York City on March 10, 2010.

Bardoliwalla's address will be on “The Top 10 Emerging Trends in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Performance Management," which is the topic of the March 10 seminar, and his co-speaker will be Howard Brathwaite from MTV Networks. More »

In his JargonSpy column this week, Dan Woods starts off by saying that much of the analysis about SAP lately "has focused on the need for the software giant to regain a sense of excitement for its customers."

Woods says that it appears analysts are saying SAP should become the "New, New Thing," but he thinks SAP should stick to its guns, but also do these key things:

Reconfigure the customer experience; More »

This week's JargonSpy column mentions about a newish programming language that Dan Woods recently learned about at a New York CTO club meeting: Groovy, a "a Java-friendly language with many of the properties of Ruby and Python." More »

In his January 26 JargonSpy column, Dan Woods shows how much he has come to rely on using Google Apps to run his company, Evolved Media. More »

Dan Woods's January 19 JargonSpy column exposes a scary truth about the mainframes that are still used today to store vast pools of data and run electricity and telecommunications grids: they are not as secure as they should be.

Woods says that IT managers tend to think of mainframes as basically safe from intrusion, so they don't focus their resources on protecting them from security breaches. More »

In his January 12 JargonSpy column, Dan Woods discusses the attributes of Lean manufacturing and Agile software development, and says that these two methodologies are starting to merge. More »

In his first JargonSpy column of 2010, Dan Woods, aka the JargonSpy, talks about the sense of attachment he feels with certain aspects of technology, such as the server he used for his company Evolved Media's wiki and workspace. Woods mentions that beginning in the new year, Evolved Media has moved from its server space on The Planet to Rackspace. More »

Driven to Perform author Nenshad Bardoliwalla has published his second installment in his blog series on the risk-adjusted performance management lifecycle. More »

The end of 2009 saw some interesting columns coming from the JargonSpy's desk. The last three columns especially concerned issues that are companies will do well to consider going into the new decade.

On Dec. 15, the JargonSpy (Dan Woods) wrote about The Security Threat From Within, in which he said that "using production data for testing and development can be a major security risk." More »

PC World's Business Center site has an article titled 'SAP Making EPM Push Against Oracle' that touches on a subject covered in 'Driven to Perform.'

The article talks about CKE Restaurants' move from Oracle's Hyperion software to SAP's BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation product. More »