VooDoo BBQ & Grill opened its first location in New Orleans on Mardi Gras Day 2002 and has expanded to 18 locations with plans to open 320 in the next five years. […]
Business Intelligence Tool Streamlines Operations
A business intelligence system at Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium improved data management, streamlined operations and increased data-driven decision making. In need of improved data warehousing and dashboard analytics to streamline operations, […]
After Cloudera Purchase, Computer Security May Be Hot Sector
Intel’s investment in privately held Cloudera may be creating interest in Internet security firms among other companies that are involved in cloud computing, or the business of hosting data on remote servers. […]
Women in Technology: Could the Next Big Thing in Data Analytics Be HR?
The question in the title was one of the more interesting ones that came to the panel I moderated in the Women In Technology Summit. I was fascinated to learn that two […]
No need to re-invent the wheel for big data, says IT director
Next week Montreal’s Yellow Pages Group will welcome its first data scientist. Big data is something you address when you do data architecture, network architecture, application architecture…
Self-service BI best practices
Self-service BI: In addition to all the benefits for business users, IT also benefits from driving down their development and maintenance burden, increasing speed to delivery, and freeing up resources to focus […]
The 4 V’s in Big Data for Digital Marketing
Digital marketing professionals declare big data as the next BIG thing in digital marketing. There is no way of stopping the surge of big data explosion upon the emergence of better online […]
Exploring Big Data Analytics on Microsoft SharePoint
Business intelligence is a critical part of the modern day decision making process. Late last year, Microsoft announced a slew of business intelligence features to their popular SharePoint 2013 enterprise server platform […]
Data science vs the hunch: What happens when the figures contradict your gut instinct?
Despite the widespread adoption of analytics and scientific testing by businesses around the world, the management sixth sense continues to flourish. On the face of it, business people still hold wildly contradictory […]
Big Data and Machine Intelligence to Dominate 2014
According to Google’s Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, 2014 will herald the “arrival of big data and machine intelligence.” “Big Data” is a nascent technological endeavor that organizes the volume and velocity of […]
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