Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As the use of intelligence technologies is staggering, knowing the latest trends in business intelligence is a must. The market for business intelligence services is expected to reach $33.5 top 5 key platforms that control the future of business intelligence impacts BI may have on your business in the future.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2023

The first published data governance framework was the work of Gwen Thomas, who founded the Data Governance Institute (DGI) and put her opus online in 2003. They already had a technical plan in place, and I helped them find the right size and structure of an accompanying data governance program.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 23, 2023

Companies from all industries worldwide continue to increase investments in BPM/Workflow, Robotic Process Automation (RPA), machine learning (ML), and artificial intelligence (AI), and accelerate operational transformations to automate and make data governance more agile to keep up with the exponential growth of incoming information.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Ventana Research has been evaluating analytics and business intelligence (BI) software for a long time—almost 20 years. Our methodology for these assessments is referred to as a Value Index. We use weightings derived from our benchmark research about how you, as buyers of these technologies, value and evaluate vendors.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 23, 2020

Yet organizations face an equally challenging imperative to ensure that business users have easy access to the data they need. Depending on how they are implemented, data governance policies can inhibit access to data, making it harder to find and utilize the data assets of an organization.

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Jet Global

MARCH 13, 2019

With business intelligence (BI) software playing an increasingly important role in the modern enterprise, the technology is poised for an oversized impact in the coming year. With such an important mandate, BI will need to continue adapting to the shifting needs of the business world through the coming year. Anywhere Analytics.

Business Intelligence 85

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erwin

JANUARY 9, 2020

While it’s always been the best way to understand complex data sources and automate design standards and integrity rules, the role of data modeling continues to expand as the fulcrum of collaboration between data generators, stewards and consumers. So here’s why data modeling is so critical to data governance.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

erwin released its State of Data Governance Report in February 2018, just a few months before the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect. Download Free GDPR Guide | Step By Step Guide to Data Governance for GDPR?. How to automate data mapping. The Role of Data Automation. We wonder why.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

TIBCO is a large, independent cloud-computing and data analytics software company that offers integration, analytics, business intelligence and events processing software. It enables organizations to analyze streaming data in real time and provides the capability to automate analytics processes.

Analytics 175

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I suggest we also need to mind the gap between data and analytics. If you’ve ever been to London, you are probably familiar with the announcements on the London Underground to “mind the gap” between the trains and the platform.

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Octopai

JUNE 26, 2020

Steve, the Head of Business Intelligence at a leading insurance company, pushed back in his office chair and stood up, waving his fists at the screen. We’re dealing with data day in and day out, but if isn’t accurate then it’s all for nothing!” Enterprise data governance. Metadata in data governance.

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Metadata Data Governance Enterprise Reporting 84

CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

C-suite leaders must have confidence in the data they have on hand to fuel business processes, deliver customer and employee experiences, and improve their operational analytics and insights.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

One potential solution to this challenge is to deploy self-service analytics, a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to perform queries and generate reports on their own with little or no help from IT or data specialists.

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Jet Global

JANUARY 17, 2019

In today’s data-driven world, business intelligence (BI) and analytics play a huge role in better understanding your customers, improving your operations, and making actionable business decisions. Take a look at the data you need to use in order to get any value from business intelligence and analytics.

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CDW Research Hub

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They also aren’t built to integrate new technologies such as artificial intelligence and deep learning tools, which can move business to continuous intelligence and from predictive to prescriptive analytics. Another critical step is to create a framework to integrate your data. Build a Best of Breed Data Platform.

Business Intelligence 52

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

From operational systems to support “smart processes”, to the data warehouse for enterprise management, to exploring new use cases through advanced analytics : all of these environments incorporate disparate systems, each containing data fragments optimized for their own specific task. .

Data Governance 89

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Join the AWS Analytics team at AWS re:Invent this year, where new ideas and exciting innovations come together. For those in the data world, this post provides a curated guide for all analytics sessions that you can use to quickly schedule and build your itinerary. A shapeshifting guardian and protector of data like Data Lynx?

Analytics 112

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Octopai

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Does it support automatic harvesting from your other data/BI software? If you’re in the market for a data catalog, you likely have at least one tool each for your ETL, database, analysis, and analytics/reporting functions. Making Smart Choices. And if you’re still stressed, drop the cocktails and try some meditation.

Business Intelligence 84

Business Intelligence Software Cost-Benefit Metadata 84

Alation

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In the previous blog , we discussed how Alation provides a platform for data scientists and analysts to complete projects and analysis at speed. In this blog we will discuss how Alation helps minimize risk with active data governance. So why are organizations not able to scale governance? Meet Governance Requirements.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 28, 2023

This is the second post of a three-part series detailing how Novo Nordisk , a large pharmaceutical enterprise, partnered with AWS Professional Services to build a scalable and secure data and analytics platform. The third post will show how end-users can consume data from their tool of choice, without compromising data governance.

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Smarten

AUGUST 23, 2022

The Importance of Adding a Mobile BI App to an Augmented Analytics Strategy ! Many businesses are considering, or have implemented, business intelligence and augmented analytics solutions. Changing the Culture and Business Processes. Extending the Office Environment. Improving User Adoption.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Big data technology has helped businesses make more informed decisions. A growing number of companies are developing sophisticated business intelligence models, which wouldn’t be possible without intricate data storage infrastructures. One of the biggest issues pertains to data quality.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Every organization performing analytics with multiple employees needs to collaborate. They should be collaborating in the analytics process and in communicating the results of those analyses. I had anticipated that three-quarters of analytics vendors would include collaboration capabilities.

Analytics 215

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Organizations are collecting data from multiple data sources and a variety of systems to enrich their analytics and business intelligence (BI). But collecting data is only half of the equation. As the data grows, it becomes challenging to find the right data at the right time.

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Alation

MARCH 8, 2022

They either can’t wait for someone else to find it or can’t explain exactly what they need, so they set off to search and dig and waste time looking for that data needle in the proverbial haystack. But they then risk using the wrong data, pulling others away from more important jobs, or making bad decisions based on bad data.

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Smarten

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Let’s look at some of the reasons business intelligence (BI) and augmented analytics are important to your business and the benefits this type of solution can provide for your enterprise. Giving your team the right tools and a simple way to manage the overwhelming flow of data is crucial to business success.’

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JUNE 4, 2021

We are happy to share some insights about Information Builders’ WebFOCUS Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

Business Intelligence 225

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Analytics processes are all about how organizations use data to create metrics that help manage and improve operations. Yet, the discipline applied to analytics processes seems to be lacking compared to data processes. I’ve pointed out that the weak link in data governance is often analytics.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JUNE 9, 2021

We are happy to share some insights about Oracle Analytics Cloud drawn from our latest Value Index research, which assesses how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

Analytics 261

Analytics Data Governance Business Intelligence Machine Learning 261

David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

APRIL 21, 2021

The amount of data flowing into organizations is growing exponentially, creating a need to process more data more quickly than ever before. Our Data Preparation Benchmark Research shows that accessing and preparing data continues to be the most time-consuming part of making data available for analysis.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JULY 19, 2021

The Ventana Research Value Index: Mobile Analytics and Data 2021 is the distillation of a year of market and product research by Ventana Research. I am happy to share insights gleaned from our latest Value Index research, an assessment of how well vendors’ offerings meet buyers’ requirements.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

DataOps is enabling organizations to be more agile in their data processes. As organizations are embracing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), they are recognizing the need to adopt MLOps.

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FineReport

APRIL 9, 2024

Benefits of Healthcare Business Intelligence Tools Improved Decision-Making: Healthcare BI tools enable informed decision-making by providing real-time data analysis and predictive insights. Healthcare data governance plays a pivotal role in ensuring the secure handling of patient data while complying with stringent regulations.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2023

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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David Menninger's Analyst Perspectives

JANUARY 14, 2021

But unlocking value from data requires multiple analytics workloads, data science tools and machine learning algorithms to run against the same diverse data sets. In our ongoing benchmark research project , we are researching the ways in which organizations work with big data and the challenges they face.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2024

billion acquisition of data and analytics company Neustar in 2021, TransUnion has expanded into other services such as marketing, fraud detection and prevention, and robust analytical services. At the core of its strategy is the mountain of data that TransUnion has acquired — along with more than 25 companies — over decades.

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AWS Big Data

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Amazon Redshift is a fully managed, scalable cloud data warehouse that accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure analytics at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries, making it a widely used cloud data warehouse.

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