Gartner claims 50% of DW projects will fail due to
- I.T. driven, not business driven
- data quality issues
One solution? Have a data warehouse competency center.
I’d broaden it to have an analytics competency center. Fortunately, Yahoo! gets it.
Yahoo
Ramblings about my employer.
Yahoo! Search Web Services
On the heels of TiVo’s release of their API, Yahoo! has introduced developer.yahoo.net, a set of services (and SDK) for embedding Yahoo! search into applications. If you’ve used any other search engine SDKs, you’ll be impressed with this one.
There’s a blog too.
Grab your application ID and start hacking…
Snowed Out
I was scheduled to hit the red-eye tonight, off to New York to see our good friends at HotJobs and attend the Search Engine Strategies conference. The airline called this afternoon and said the flight was cancelled due to the snow storm in NYC.
I see that Jeremy had an earlier flight. Nice. I booked too late to get a good flight…
It’s a shame, too, because I wanted to drop in on the Web Analytics cocktail hour that Eric Peterson was throwing. I just found out Eric’s cancelled his trip for weather reasons also! But the cocktail hour is still on, and WAA (Web Analytics Association) folks will be there too: Wednesday, March 2nd (6 PM, lobby bar at the Hilton).
Of course there’s also the Yahoo! 10-year anniversary gig on Tuesday.