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Self-Service Data’s New Frontier: The Data Catalog

Alation

It was down to Qlik, Microsoft, Microstrategy, and Tableau to represent and discover the complexities of the College Scorecard Data from the U.S. With any luck Cindi might even consider the first annual Self-Service Data Prep Bake-off in 2017? Subscribe to Alation's Blog. Department of Education. I hope to see you there!

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Two Acquisitions in Two Weeks!

Rita Sallam

Also, see Cindi Howson’s blog for her take. Workday plans to embed Platfora technology into its technology foundation to complement existing operational reporting, dashboarding and scorecarding capabilities with Platfora’s ad hoc exploration features targeted specifically for Workday’s HR and Finance application customers.

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

This piece was prompted by both Olaf’s question and a recent article by my friend Neil Raden on his Silicon Angle blog, Performance management: Can you really manage what you measure? However – as is often the case with issues I deal with on this blog – fact-based decision-making is easier to say than it is to achieve.

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