Intel Makes Significant Equity Investment in Cloudera. Intel Corporation and Cloudera announced a broad strategic technology and business collaboration, as well as a significant equity investment from Intel making it Cloudera’s largest […]
Selecting the right SQL-on-Hadoop engine to access big data
In the world of Hadoop and NoSQL, the spotlight is now on SQL-on-Hadoop engines. Today, many different engines are available, making it hard for organizations to choose. This article presents some important […]
BI and analytics tools top list of planned 2014 software initiatives
TechTarget’s annual IT Priorities Survey, conducted in late 2013, found that BI, analytics and data warehousing projects topped the list of planned software initiatives in organizations for 2014. Nearly 41% of 3,088 […]
Microsoft Reveals Big Data Strategy
Microsoft’s new tools aim to serve all users — not just data scientists — extracting insight from big data sets and the Internet of Things. Microsoft on Tuesday announced a trio of […]
Data Scientists Want Respect & Results
Analytics managers from Macy’s, Ford, and Google offer tips on how to integrate and inspire data scientists. A technical background is essential, but understanding business needs trumps technical acumen alone, according to […]
Business-Driven Data Warehouse Architectures
The evolution TDWI is seeing in data warehouse architectures is due in part to evolving business practices and goals. Data warehouse architectures have been experiencing a rather dramatic evolution in recent years, […]
The State of Agile BI, Part 3: From Agile to Agility
In the last part of our series, we examine the business-driven context for BI and the link between the agile development and a business’s agility imperative. In Parts 1 and 2 of […]
Big data: Why IT departments mustn’t be a drag on analytics
One analytics chief says those in charge of big-data insights need to control their own destiny, which means responsibility for budget, technology resilience and security. Analytics teams need dedicated infrastructure or risk […]
BI Best Practice: Delete Most of Your Reports
Deleting reports will allow your enterprise to focus on new value instead of maintaining old assets that are rarely used. Any boat owner will tell you that the second best day of […]
The State of Agile BI, Part 2: Getting to Agile
How to change development processes to increase business value and speed information delivery. The first article in this series addressed the business case of agile BI — why it’s uniquely suited to […]