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 Predictive Analytics and Can it Help You Achieve Business Objectives?
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. The process of Predictive Analytics has come far in the past decade. No longer is this process the sole responsibility of data scientists or IT staff. Today’s Self-serve Predictive Analytics and forecasting tools are designed to support business users and data analysts alike. What is Predictive Analytics? Predictive […]
Business Intelligence and Analytics Trends 2019
In 2019, Advanced Analytics capabilities with minimal manual efforts will remain the hallmark of all competitive Business Intelligence solutions. The Business Application Research Center (BARC) 2018 Business Intelligence Survey indicates that the global BI solutions market is slated for major technological changes. The primary technology initiatives that BI users can expect in 2019 are Cloud BI deployments, BI […]
Predictive Analytics for Business Users Will Jump Start Business Growth
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. Predictive Analytics is no longer limited to Data Scientists. Today, Predictive Analytics is, and must be, accessible to business users, if your enterprise is to grow and respond to the need for data democratization and increased productivity within the enterprise and to the rapid changes in the market, […]
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. […]
The Data Scientist of the Future: What Will They be Doing?
As data continues to rise in volume and variety, and businesses grow more data-centric, the decision-making power of advanced algorithms is now openly welcome in enterprises of all sizes. Now, the average business user is not affected even if a knowledgeable Data Scientist is not around. Today, technology innovations are increasingly empowering the ordinary staff […]
Self-Service Agile Data Management
Business users need to be close to Big Data. They need to know the pros and cons of how to best utilize business data to act on opportunities and reach out to customers and prospects. In addition, businesses need to respond to these advantages immediately. As Thomas Schutz, SVP of Sales and Marketing Strategy for […]
Establish a Solid Foundation for Advanced Analytics
Click to learn more about author Kartik Patel. As Advanced Analytics and Self-Serve, Augmented Analytics tools make their way into the average enterprise, the average organization struggles to quantify the effects and, moreover, to understand and leverage the changes within the business. Every company is different and the impact of these types of tools will be […]
Case Study: Data Virtualization Seasons the Machine Learning and Blockchain Landscape for McCormick
Food flavoring giant McCormick is spicing things by adopting Data Virtualization for a number of its key projects including the deployment of Machine Learning techniques and a Blockchain collaboration program with a prominent retailer as part of a plan to better control food quality. In a recent DATAVERSITY® interview with Terry Moon, an Information Architect […]
Improving Self-Service Analytics by Harnessing the Data Swarm
“Self-Service Analytics is great because it empowers business people,” said Frank Moreno, VP of Worldwide Marketing at Datawatch. But as the trend has taken off, so have disconnected data silos that create challenges in understanding Data Provenance, modifications, and currency. So, as business users worked with reporting or visualization tools such as Tableau, there often […]