Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. A new year is a new opportunity to analyze and apply data. The new year will ring in new opportunities to become more conversant in how we use data in our everyday lives. It will be a renewed and expanded year of education: a year of connection between […]
Cloudera Empowers Bombay Stock Exchange with Real-Time Insights
According to a recent press release, “Cloudera, Inc., the modern platform for machine learning and analytics optimized for the cloud, today announced that Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), one of Asia’s oldest stock exchanges, has implemented its big data lake on Cloudera Enterprise. Centralizing enterprise-wide structured and unstructured data, Cloudera Enterprise empowers BSE with real-time analytics, […]
Three Reasons Fast Databases Will Never Be Fast Enough
Click to learn more about author Mathias Golombek. If you look at the Data Management market (e.g. the Data Trends from the 451 Group), you are likely to be overwhelmed by the diversity of today’s technologies. Many decision makers think that this broad range of choices is too complex to consider. As a consequence, they […]
How to Gain Real Value from AI
Click to learn more about author Gaby Olazabal. As Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based solutions are introduced to the insurance industry and a new wave of InsurTech companies rise up, it can be difficult to see the forest for the trees. AI-based products are designed to do a great number of things today: solve complex problems associated […]
Data Science and Data Analysis
Click to learn more about author Steve Miller. I met up with a grad school friend of 40 years the other day. While he earned a doctorate and became an academic luminary, I departed the program with a masters in statistical science and went on first to the not-for-profit and then to the business worlds. […]
Ad Hoc Analysis: The Limits of Self-service BI
Click to learn more about author Matthew Gierc. Self-service BI. Ad hoc analysis. Exploratory data analysis. This is the holy grail that companies are looking for, right? At least that’s what the BI dashboard vendors are telling us. But do these tools really help organizations? In the short-term, yes. But the long-term effects of repeated Ad […]
Back to School: Data Literacy and an Urgent Reason to Study Data
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. A literate society is not necessarily a numerate one. Where one is absent, the other is almost always lacking, because it is hard to appreciate—never mind articulate—the fullness of an idea without a full vocabulary. Expanding that vocabulary must be a national priority, beginning in primary and secondary […]
Vena Builds on Powerful Modeling Capabilities with New FP&A Product Release
According to a new press release, “Vena Solutions, the fastest growing provider of cloud-based financial planning and analysis (FP&A) software, today announced its latest product release. The new release includes more than 20 new and enhanced features to support Vena’s already-robust business modeling capabilities, with augmented power BI integration, in-product customer support access, and more. […]
Case Study: NAMI Tames Cumbersome Analytics Processes
David Levy has been the Chief Financial Officer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) – responsible for accounting, finance, financial reporting, and HR – since 2012.The company has grown substantially in the last six years. According to the company website, NAMI is “the largest grassroots-based organization helping families and those affected by mental […]
Using Data to Make Better Decisions
Click to learn more about author Carie Lemack. Data is neither an end unto itself nor the end of anything in particular. It is instead the end of the beginning of a process, whose ultimate end is to improve decision-making and enable leaders to make the right decisions. To do these things requires perspective, so you […]