Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 3)

SM. Where did you get the idea for LucidEra? What is your domain experience in the Enterprise 3.0 business? KR: The idea developed in two stages. First, when I ran my Business Intelligence consulting company many years, it became obvious that while Business Intelligence solutions were common in large enterprises, they were rare in small

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Taking on Business Intelligence: Lucidera CEO Ken Rudin (Part 1)

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