Director Of Business Intelligence

Total Intelligence Solutions, LLC, today announced the appointment of Craig T. Johnson as Director for Due Diligence, Business Investigations and Legal Compliance. Mr. Johnson will head up the new division of the intelligence company, augmenting the company with services to include VIP executive security protection, due diligence, physical, vulnerability, risk, threat, and behavior assessments. The division will also provide background checks for client personnel and business investigation services.

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Wal-Mart Selects HP’s Neoview for Data Warehousing across Its 4000-Store Network

Aug 02 -- Wal-Mart has selected the HP Neoview data warehousing platform to power complex analysis of data collected across its 4,000 U.S. stores.

Nancy Stewart, Wal-Mart chief technology officer, stated that “the HP partnership is part of a continued effort to drive innovation into every facet of Wal-Mart's business and IT operations."

Publicly launched in April, HP Neoview is the company's enterprise data warehousing platform that integrates hardware, software and services to offer high performance and high availability.

“At Wal-Mart, we never underestimate the importance of investing in innovative solutions that will improve our ability to understand and anticipate our customers' needs," said Jim Scantlin, director, enterprise information management, Wal-Mart. “Our experience with HP Neoview has proven that we made the right decision to partner with HP for our next-generation business intelligence needs."

“The Neoview platform provides customers with the industry's most reliable, scalable and accessible choice for capitalizing on information and optimizing business outcomes," said Ben Barnes, vice president and general manager, Business Intelligence, Software, HP.

Watch List (July 29-Aug. 4): Boardroom Chatter

In this week's issue we report on: A wave of restructurings and facility consolidations that corporations announced they will be considering in the second half of the year; How land prices are affecting cattle herds; Oxford Funding's leap into subprime loans; Plus other news you'll find only here and give you the latest facility closures, permanent mass layoffs and properties on The Watch List. Out of the Mouths of CEOs, CFOs, COOs: "Downsize" Following generally weak second quarter earnings reports, there has been a noticeable increase in chatter coming from executives about restructurings, headcount reductions and future facility consolidations. CEOs, CFOs and COOs were peppered in the past week at their quarterly earnings conference calls with questions from investment analyst about expense reductions.

Lawyers sap our will to combat terrorism

Many jihadis seek to create a global caliphate, ruled by Sharia. At best, Christians, Hindus, and Jews would live in a state of submission tantamount to second-class citizenship. If they got above themselves, they would suffer the persecutions Islamists visited on the Coptic Christians of Egypt. The rule of Islamists has resulted in murderous chaos – 150,000 died in Algeria during the 1990s when madmen decided that most of the Muslim population were apostates. The Taleban anti-state so ruined Afghanistan that Americans joked that they had to bomb it forwards to the Stone Age. There are significant numbers of people living in Britain who wish to visit such chaos on us.

This is the backdrop to the debate about anti-terrorism legislation. As usual lawyers talk to lawyers, including those overrepresented in our political class.

Business Software supports real-time process optimization.

AquaLogic BPM 6.0 integrates modeling, execution, and monitoring of end-to-end business processes to support real-time process optimization. Software allows business participants to share knowledge, effectively coordinate business activities, and conduct real-time process simulations to optimize process outcomes. Features include Eclipse-based development environment and support for system or event-initiated business processes.

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Tom Doctoroff: China Rising? Yes. Chinese Century? No.

It's a Communistic bazaar, a clanging oxymoron destined for either implosion or explosion. China both enrages and inspires. So, where are we? The Pitfalls

Robotic Programming. The Doubting Thomas's aren't crazy. Anyone with a yen for bursting bubbles need only spend an hour at Pudong International Airport, Shanghai's municipal disgrace. From afar, the French structure is magnificent, broad shouldered, thrusting skyward. Inside, everything is designed and produced locally, on the cheap, a disastrous embarrassment to a city with cosmopolitan pretension. It's inhuman and ultrafunctional, albeit inefficiently so. The moving sidewalks are absurdly narrow; a poky, passive-aggressive traveler can slow everyone behind him to a crawl. (Now that's power!) Putrid bathrooms are underground and, in the entire building, there's only one elevator.

Russia's seabed flag-planting symbolic but sovereignty has serious consequences

RUSSIAN scientists are this week trying to plunge to the seabed beneath the North Pole in miniature submarines to plant a titanium capsule containing the Russian flag, symbolically claiming much of the Arctic Ocean floor for Moscow.

Taking Control of Your Firm's Business Intelligence App

Still fighting to control the business intelligence systems in your organization? Analytics, data warehouses and performance management systems, known as BI tools, enhance decision-making, improve customer service, boost revenues and reduce costs. They are considered among the top priorities of senior business and technology executives these days, according to surveys by Gartner, BusinessWeek Research Services (BWRS) and other organizations.

All too often, though, Information Technology departments aren’t among the key BI stewards. While a recent survey of senior business decision makers found that CIOs and their IT departments are decidedly out of the BI loop, there are ways to get back in the game.

First, let’s look at the situation. Last year BWRS polled CEOs, CFOs, CMOs, COOs and other senior executives of U.S.-based organizations for their views on BI.