For any transformational Business Strategy, data-driven intelligence must be “readily accessible, interpretable, and actionable” whenever necessary. At the macro level, a data-driven culture has to be consciously propagated throughout the organization, end-to-end. Digital businesses have acknowledged the importance of data accessibility and have embraced this culture within their business model to remain competitive. The late […]
Blueprint to the Boardroom: How Tech Pros Can Influence Business Strategy
Click to learn more about author Patrick Hubbard. If you feel like you can never find time in your day to move ahead or develop badly-needed skills, you aren’t alone. In fact, according to our recent IT Trends Report 2019, 79% of DevOps teams, developers, and web product managers (WPMs) say their day-to-day IT tasks extend […]
Machine Learning for Small Businesses: Unearthing the Revolutionary Potential
Click to learn more about author Atman Rathod. Like any new technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) remained largely available for the top brass of every industry at the initial stage. But like we have seen with many new technologies and innovations in the past, they are slowly going to be available for […]
Moving Data from an IT Issue to a Business Imperative
Click to learn more about author Kevin W. McCarthy. We all know businesses are trying to do more with their data, but inaccuracy and general Data Management issues are getting in the way. For most businesses, the status quo for managing data is not working. However, there is new research that shows data is moving […]
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 […]
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 […]
The State of Data Education: Bringing IT and the Business Together
There’s something missing in the way that many higher education institutions educate students about the intersection between technology and business. The problem: they often don’t. There just isn’t enough focus on getting those people who are studying the science – and art – of working with data to also work in tandem with business peers […]
How Critical are Analytics and Big Data for Strategic Growth?
Click to learn more about author Amit Dua. Bringing stronger ground to strategy and management, analytics is one of the leading technology solutions in the marketplace. The $50 Billion global industry is set to grow at 10% CAGR across various domains worldwide. Everything from media to real estate is driven by Big Data these days, […]
Why Your Data Strategy Needs to Align with Your Business Strategy
Click to learn more about author Asha Saxena. Most enterprise companies interact with, operate on, and leverage data across a vast array of business departments. Data is generated by everything from web apps to cameras to heart rate monitors to Internet of things (IoT) sensors, which is empowering richer insights into human and “things” behaviors. Companies […]
Are You Paying Too Much for Your Database Management System? Making Sense of Licensing Structures
Click to learn more about author Franco Rizzo. A flexible licensing model allows a company to invest more in the innovative ventures that will drive revenue, and less in core business processes. If you ask someone to name a handful of highly innovative companies, Apple is almost certainly one of the first to spring to […]