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Steve Miller
Steve Miller is co-founder of a Chicago-based business intelligence (BI) services firm OpenBI, LLC, that specializes in delivering analytic solutions with both open source and commercial technologies. Miller has more than 30 years of experience in intelligence and analytics, having migrated from health care program evaluation, to database consulting with Oracle Corporation, to running a fast-growing BI services business at Braun Consulting. Advances in technology over that time have fundamentally enabled the use of quantitative methods for business differentiation. OpenBI, LLC, is all about helping customers attain that differentiation. You can reach him at steve.miller@openbi.com.
Recent Stories From this Author
Statistical Learning for BI, Part 1
November 26, 2008 This is the first in a series on of articles on statistical learning for business intelligence
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Weak Ties and Diversification
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April 10, 2008 This column includes the thoughts of Patrick Walsh,investment manager for Intel Capital, on open source and super-crunching.
A Propensity for BI
March 27, 2008 At a minimum, BI practitioners should understand the strengths and weaknesses of the designs they deploy to gather intelligence.
