Coy Yonce
Thoughts on Information Design, Business Intelligence, and other selected topics

Welcome! The goal of this site is to provide insights in the areas of Information Design, Creative Thinking, Business Intelligence, designing the User Experience, the Product Deployment Lifecycle, and Process Engineering. This goal will be achieved through blog posts, which will spark discussion, and through collaboration with other subject matter experts via papers and articles hosted on this site.

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Information Design
Business Intelligence
Creative Thinking
Software Deployment
Process Engineering
Suggested Reading
User Experience

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Retain Source Information While Embedding BI Content

An article that I was reading on Wired recently had an interesting feature when copying and pasting content. In this post, I explain how this feature could be used within the context of BI content embedded into other applications.
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Fisher-Price Digital Camera: Usable Design

My daughter recently received the Fisher-Price Kid-Tough Digital Camera as a Christmas present. The design of this camera is explored within the context of how it's simplistic and direct design can provide positive examples to software designers.
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Business Intelligence Demos

Links to many business intelligence solution demos have been provided in this post. For most of them you can interact directly with the software; however, there are some that are just links to videos of the solutions in action.
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Creating Embedded Business Intelligence

As a final part to a three part series, the focus of this post is on how Business Intelligence vendors should extend their existing methods for embedding their content to make it easier for the creation of both on-premise and off-premise BI services.
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Extending Collaborative Business Intelligence

As a second part to a three part series, the focus of this post is on how Business Intelligence vendors should include collaborative and community-based features alongside their content to ensure that BI can become pervasive.
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Creating simpler, interoperable BI products to enable pervasiveness

As mentioned in previous posts, real storytelling with BI can only be achieved after BI has become pervasive in an organization. Continuing on with this idea my latest posts focuses on creating simpler, interoperable BI products. This will allow users to start using BI products quickly which will lead to more insights and more complete stories. The end result is a more efficient organization.
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Storytelling Depends on Ubiquitous Business Intelligence

It is important that Business Intelligence be used to create stories around the information that exists within an organization. In order to achieve an organization-wide capability of looking at data in this way and collaborating on information displays, we must make BI as pervasive as possible. This post kicks off a series of how we, as BI vendors, can help our customers with the art of storytelling by allowing them to deploy BI to all users.
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The Art of Storytelling with Business Intelligence

In this post, I discuss the importance of creating a story when presenting information. As the objective of Business Intelligence is make it easier for individuals to discover, analyze, consolidate, and share information, it is important for BI to not only provide access to information, but to also allow a story to be told. These stories are the way that positive impacts can be seen through the implementation of BI.
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