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Modernize Using The BI & Analytics Magic Quadrant

Rita Sallam

Like when Oracle acquired Hyperion in March of 2007, which set of a series of acquisitions –SAP of Business Objects October, 2007 and then IBM of Cognos in November, 2007. Q2: Would you consider Sisense better than others in handling big and unstructured data? In BI we have had our seminal moments too.

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A Big Data Imperative: Driving Big Action

Occam's Razor

Is there anything in the analytics space that is so full of promise and hype and sexiness and possible awesomeness than "big data?" So what is big data really? As I interpret it, big data is the collection of massive databases of structured and unstructured data. " I don't think so.

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How to Choose the Best Analytics Platform, and Empower Business-Driven Analytics

Grooper

Master data management. Data governance. Structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data. Data pipelines. A classic example often cited is John Deere’s innovative investment in a new way of optimizing inventory called “direct de rivative estimation of non-stationary inventory.” Primary keys. Web scraping.