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, […]
Q&A: Business Analytics Poised for Disruption
Engaging users directly with business analytics cuts to the chase, saving analysts’ time and resulting in quicker answers. Any enterprise still performing either an “annual budget” or a “monthly reforecast” should reconsider […]
The Four Core Project Types: A Conceptual Foundation for Predictive Analytics
The vast majority of predictive analytics projects can be conceptualized as falling into one of four basic types, from which we can creatively combine the benefits of each to enhance our organizational […]
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 […]
The State of Agile BI, Part 1: Agile BI at a Tipping Point
How can we deliver BI solutions to our users faster without compromising architecture and quality? Agile BI has been one of the hottest topics in business intelligence circles for the last several […]
Four More Advances in Predictive Analytics
The technology and the practices around predictive analytics are also evolving. Here are four ways predictive analytics is changing. Predictive analytics — a statistical or data mining solution consisting of algorithms and […]
4 Reasons to Use Big Data in the Cloud
Two of the biggest buzzwords of the last year: big data and cloud computing. Learn why you should be putting these technologies to work in your environment. In 2013, two of the […]
