Enterprise applications giant moves Hana business intelligence engine into the cloud. Business intelligence and business analytics are probably among the most ponderous, compute-heavy tranches of enterprise data. But even these lumbering behemoths […]
Suddenly Everyone Wants To Be In Cloud Analytics
In case you’ve missed it, there is a revolution going on in the analysis of enterprise data. Rather than building big and complex data warehouses and crunching numbers after the fact, these new solutions instead […]
These are the challenges a company’s first data scientist faces
Anna Gordon was Mindjet’s first data scientist. Gordon graduated from George Washington University with a Ph.D in statistics and joined Mindjet, a 15-year-old work-management software company that had just changed its focus […]
Bringing Architecture Back
TDWI Research’s Philip Russom describes a logical architecture that knits together the multi-platform present into a diverse data warehouse environment. According to a new Best Practices report from The Data Warehousing Institute […]
As Big Data Market Booms, Hadoop Player MapR Announces Record Growth
Cloudera and Hortonworks are not the only Hadoop companies that are growing. Intel Corp.’s recent investment of $740 million into Cloudera Inc., along with a $100 million investment in Hortonworks Inc. led […]
How Data Visualization Answered One of Retail’s Most Vexing Questions
Sometimes it’s relatively easy to know what your customers are doing. In e-commerce, advances in tracking and analytics have made it possible for retailers to understand what individual customers are doing before […]
Can Small Companies Justify Investing in Business Analytics?
Even in the case of extremely small businesses, a strategic deployment of a Business Intelligence solution can have major impact on the growth and profitability of the company. Having a clear view […]
BI Use in a Holding Pattern
If use is a reliable indicator of success, enterprise business intelligence (BI) is no overnight sensation. Historically, a shockingly small proportion of potential information consumers has actually used BI. It’s beginning to […]
Big Data 2.0
Big Data 2.0: Seeing Will Make Us All Big Data Believers Big data offers zero value unless a business can extract the intelligence it’s looking for. As advanced analytics with intuitive data […]
Findings of the Big Data and Privacy Working Group Review
The big data revolution presents incredible opportunities in virtually every sector of the economy and every corner of society. The declining cost of collection, storage, and processing of data, combined with new […]