If your small or medium-sized business (SMB) is looking for ways to improve forecasting, problem-solving, and market opportunities, it must embrace self-service advanced analytics that allow business users to leverage their role, their knowledge of their business function, and their collaborative initiatives to gather, analyze, and share information and improve business results. According to Gartner, natural […]
10 Actionable Steps to Create a Data-Driven Culture
By capitalizing on your data assets, do you want to acquire fruitful outcomes and actionable insights to make more informed and rational business decisions? To make your business a purely data-driven entity with a highly streamlined and targeted approach, you must embrace the change dictated by the valuable insights from the correct data analysis. By […]
The Semantic Layer Goes Mainstream
The semantic layer concept within the data stack is not new but is an increasingly popular topic of conversation. I predict that in 2022, we’ll see mainstream awareness of the semantic layer, especially as enterprises begin to see real-world examples of its benefits. The fact that industry leaders are discussing the need for a semantic […]
Why 2022 Will Be the Year of AI, Machine Learning, and Cloud Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are two critical technologies that are shaping our future, how we work, and how businesses persevere through future black swan events. With the ability to analyze, learn, and become more intelligent and intuitive over time, AI and ML will continue to expand the ability of businesses to leverage […]
7 Factors to Consider When Deploying a Modern Data Estate
The abilities of an organization towards capturing, storing, and analyzing data; searching, sharing, transferring, visualizing, querying, and updating data; and meeting compliance and regulations are mandatory for any sustainable organization. Many companies have already invested in their data environment by deploying a traditional data warehouse, but data warehouses have many limitations. For example, most data warehouses […]
Business Intelligence and Analytics Trends in 2022
The industry giants – Microsoft, Google, IBM, Amazon, and Oracle – are still leading in the global analytics market shares. Microsoft, Amazon, and Oracle are additionally outperforming the market for all other vendors. However, it’s interesting to note that the battle among the top analytics vendors is not over “sophisticated algorithms,” but over Data Quality. […]
Is Streaming Analytics the Future of Business Analytics?
Analyzing data as it is created or changes? Is that possible? Now it is, with streaming analytics, which monitors and responds to continuously flowing data from connected devices and live data channels like the sensors, machine logs, relational databases, social media feeds, location data sources, and so on. The core differentiator of streaming analytics is […]
What Is a Data Silo?
Data silos have often had a negative connotation. They describe isolated data islands that appear or are discovered upon finding disjointed Data Management components. These include: Systems that cannot programmatically work with other systems because of older or incompatible code Fixed data that is controlled by one department or team but is cut off from […]
What Is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) includes the technologies and tools used to analyze and report on different business operations. Business Intelligence uses raw data stored in varying data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and other storage platforms, and transforms it into actionable knowledge/information assets. Such elements include dashboards, spreadsheets, data visualizations, reports, and many others. According to […]
Self-Serve Advanced Analytics Offers a Collaborative, Empowered Environment
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. The use of business intelligence and business analytics is growing in every industry and business function and in companies of every size. In fact, 48% of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) CIOs responding to a Gartner survey revealed that business intelligence (BI), data, and analytics is one […]