Click to learn more about author Mike Brody. Let me be the first to acknowledge that agility is important. BI product’s should be predicated on the idea that end users should have direct control over their own data. I believe that it’s better for business professionals to answer their own analytical questions than to inundate IT […]
What is Data Value and Should it be Viewed as a Corporate Asset?
Click to learn more about author Asha Saxena. A lot has changed since the 1950’s when the average age of a publicly traded company listed on the S&P 500 has gone down from being 60 years old to now less than 20 years old according to research from Credit Suisse investor analysts. Companies that are embracing […]
Doubling Down on Digital Twins: A New Approach to Get Operations Moving
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. Risk can be a meaningfully paralyzing concern for IT. Sometimes we fear that even looking at a system, much less making configuration changes, however badly needed, might cause it to fail in spectacular and career-limiting ways. But what if we had specimens of our most critical systems to […]
Master Data Super Hero Adventures: The Attack of Data Silos
Click to learn more about video blogger Scott Taylor. The Data Rants video blog series begins with host Scott Taylor “The Data Whisperer.” The series covers some of the most prominent questions in Data Management such as Master Data, the difference between Master Data and MDM, “truth” versus “meaning” in data, and so much more. […]
Is Advanced Analytics the Next Logical Step Beyond Self-Serve Business Intelligence?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Many organizations have grown comfortable with their business intelligence solution, and find it difficult to justify the need for advanced analytics. The advantages of advanced analytics are numerous and those advantages are based on the ability to further improve the business, increase user adoption (and therefore user empowerment […]
Predictions About the Internet of Things (IoT) and Related Services
Click to learn more about author Sonal Mehta. Internet of Things Development Today, the internet is the largest medium of interaction used by almost everyone in the world. It is used to communicate; share and transfer data, information, and files such as video, audio, and photos; manage various business operations, and so much more. Ever […]
An Alternative View of Stock Market Returns
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. Last week wasn’t a good one economically for the POTUS. February jobs numbers were much lower than anticipated; the balance of trade deficit ballooned to its highest level in a generation even as the president doubled down on purported deficit-busting tariffs; the budget deficit skied to record […]
The Most In-Demand Big Data Skills and for IT and Data Professionals
Click to learn more about author Gilad David Maayan. The World Wide Web has grown to include more than 1.8 billion websites. Of these, about 200 million or less are active. With each passing day, thousands of new sites are added to the mix to intensify the already cutthroat competition. 2017 was a very productive […]
The Atoms and Molecules of Data Models
Click to learn more about author Thomas Frisendal. I realized that I needed to know what the constituent parts of data models really are. Across the board, all platforms, all models etc. Is there anything similar to atoms and the (chemical) bonds that enables the formation of molecules? My concerns were twofold: As part of […]
How to Get Your Board Members to Love Big Data
Click to learn more about author Oksana Sokolovsky and Rohit Mahajan. As folks in the technology business, we tend to see the best possibilities for emerging technologies; we can easily visualize how the latest and greatest can be used to make us more productive and profitable. Even when we’re hesitant to be the first to […]