Tue.Apr 02, 2019

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Build Up Your Performance With KPI Scorecards – Examples & Templates

datapine

Monitoring the business performance and tracking relevant insights in today’s digital age has empowered managers and c-level executives to obtain an invaluable volume of data that increases productivity and decreases costs. In fact, data has become the raw material that every business decision is based on while reporting tools create the environment to act on generated information swiftly and accurately.

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Big Data Has Transformed The Web Hosting Market On Both Ends

Smart Data Collective

Cloud technology has had a profound impact on the web hosting profession. It is driven largely by advances in big data. Since big data has revolutionized the web hosting industry, a myriad of new hosting options are available. How is Big Data Affecting the Future of Big Data? The sudden emergence of big data is changing the nature of web hosting in two significant ways: Companies need more extensive hosting solutions to ensure they have adequate storage.

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AI Isn't Just for the Big Players: Why SMBs Need It Too

Dataiku

According to Forbes , as of 2018, only 11 percent of small and medium businesses (SMBs) use AI, and 41 percent feel that it’s too complex for their needs. But AI and machine learning don't need to be complex, and the first wave of SMBs to embrace these technologies will undoubtedly get ahead (in a big way).

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Here’s Why Automation For Data Lakes Could Be Important

Smart Data Collective

Data Lakes are among the most complex and sophisticated data storage and processing facilities we have available to us today as human beings. Analytics Magazine notes that data lakes are among the most useful tools that an enterprise may have at its disposal when aiming to compete with competitors via innovation. These massive storage pools of data are among the most non-traditional methods of data storage around and they came about as companies raced to embrace the trend of Big Data Analytics w

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Get Better Network Graphs & Save Analysts Time

Many organizations today are unlocking the power of their data by using graph databases to feed downstream analytics, enahance visualizations, and more. Yet, when different graph nodes represent the same entity, graphs get messy. Watch this essential video with Senzing CEO Jeff Jonas on how adding entity resolution to a graph database condenses network graphs to improve analytics and save your analysts time.

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DevOps – Get with the Movement and Build Better

Sisense

What is DevOps? Is it technology? Is it a process? No, DevOps is much more than that. DevOps can be considered a concept, a culture, a development, and operational philosophy, and a movement. It’s also shaping the way BI and Analytics are deployed. The DevOps movement started to come together sometime between 2007 and 2008. This is when IT operations and software development communities started to talk about problems in the software industry, specifically around the traditional software developm

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The Enterprise AI Revolution Starts with BI

Jet Global

Artificial Intelligence is coming for the enterprise. Long the domain of science fiction and dystopian movies, computers that are capable of simulating human intelligence are poised to have a transformative impact on the business world over the next decade, and as investment dollars flow in and use cases are proven out, that impact only stands to increase.

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What is an Acceptable Analytic Failure?

Decision Management Solutions

Many speakers on predictive analytics, machine learning (ML) and AI talk about the need to allow data science teams to fail. Without failure, without a willingness to fail sometimes, it’s very hard to build a successful data science program. This is true and often a barrier for companies that find it hard to accept that not all analytics initiatives succeed.

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Practical Points from the DGPO: What Data Governance Is and Is Not

TDAN

If you are just starting out and feel overwhelmed by all the various definitions, explanations, and interpretations of data governance, don’t be alarmed. Even well-seasoned data governance veterans can struggle with the definition and explanation of what they do day to day. It’s not that we/they (newbies and veterans alike) don’t understand the big picture […].

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The War on Data Continues

Andrew White

Two articles I spied in the last few days really nailed for me the “war on data”. By “war” I mean to say the onslaught of public policy being mooted that play the efficiencies of the market off against so called benefits of the individual. Even as I write this down I am reminded me of my conversation with my colleague, Saul Judah , just the other week where he reminded me of one of my most re-read and ear-marked books, the Sovereign Individual from 1997.

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Marketing as a strategic business partner: mixing theory, research and #data

Jen Stirrup

Marketing is viewed as a key strategic participant in achieving the goals of businesses, both large and small. I thought I’d share how we started to apply marketing theory, practice, and insights from data. There are tons of ‘skate on the surface’ marketing soundbite books, which may sound good at the first glance with no depth. But it’s quite a different thing to work at it so you really know it, practice it, and can share it with other people so it is authentic.

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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying Them

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst

We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.

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Bridging the Clouds: IBM Storage Announcements Focus on Hybrid Cloud and Multi-Cloud Data

Hurwitz & Associates

By Jean S. Bozman. Hybrid clouds and multi-clouds, spanning enterprise data centers, private clouds and public clouds, are placing a new set of requirements on customers’ storage systems. Customers must deal with the new realities of cloud migration, protecting older applications and data – while supporting for new generation of cloud-native applications deployed with containers.

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The Eight Functions You Should Consider When Choosing a Self-Service Analytics Platform

Teradata

This blog discusses the functions one should consider when choosing a self-service analytics platform.

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Common Data Modeling Mistakes and Their Impact

TDAN

Although data modeling has been around for over 30 years, it ranks among the top areas from which database application problems arise. Moreover, the severity of the problems ranges from totally incorrect functionality to freakishly miserable performance. How can such an established technique yield such terrible results? The answer is quite unnerving.

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What Are the Necessary Components of an Advanced Analytics Solution?

Smarten

Business markets and competition are moving much more quickly these days and predicting, planning and forecasting is more important than ever. It is also important to ensure that every team member is a real asset to the organization and can contribute their knowledge and skill with full Insight into the effects and outcome of activities and processes and the ability to correct the course and make recommendations using clear, concise information.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Data Dictionary vs. Business Glossary

TDAN

Enterprises today are focused on ensuring robust data governance, and are exploring different tools and approaches to support their efforts. Some organizations know exactly what they need, while others can be overwhelmed or confused by all the different solutions out there that claim to support data governance. Let’s take “data dictionary” and “business glossary” for […].

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Using Temporal Tables for Slowly Changing Dimensions

Tim Mitchell

One of my favorite recent additions to SQL Server is the ability to use temporal tables to retain change history. As I wrote in an earlier post on this topic, temporal tables allow one to easily configure a table keep all of the changes (including updated and deleted rows) in a designated history table. In this post, I will share. The post Using Temporal Tables for Slowly Changing Dimensions appeared first on Tim Mitchell.

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Essential Tips for Lean Startups

TDAN

Lean startups aren’t easy to run. They require a massive amount of time, energy, and dedication. Blood, sweat, and tears alone won’t cut it – lean startups must have a plan of action to thrive. What makes a lean startup success story? What makes lean startups fail? There’s no right or wrong way to run […].

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Is Machine Learning Changing The Direction Of The Energy Sector?

Smart Data Collective

Machine learning is having a major impact on countless industries across the globe. The energy sector is a prime example. The energy and utilities sector is essential to the global economy. The production and consumption of energy resources is imperative for powering nations and business sectors, including transportation and manufacturing. According to an analysis by CB Insights, machine learning and AI are having a large impact on this industry in many ways.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Automating Bureaucracy

TDAN

Bureaucracy was known to be the plague of the USSR, but has recently become a heavy burden for private companies. New regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, and GDPR, spanning all functions from HR to accounting to product labelling to vendor certifications, are constantly put in place by various states where companies operate. These rules have […].

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Intel and Cloudera collaborate to bring improved performance to customers with Optane DC Persistent Memory

Cloudera

Cloudera and Intel have a long history of innovation, driving big data analytics and machine learning into the enterprise with unparalleled performance and security. We are pleased to build upon that direction with our collaboration on Intel® Optane DC persistent memory. Available to customers running 2nd Generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, Intel Optane DC persistent memory can significantly enhance the performance of real-time and streaming applications.

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The Book Look: Navigating the Labyrinth – Exec Guide to Data Management

TDAN

The Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK2) is the most comprehensive and objective book on data management. Comparable to what the PMBOK does for project management and the BABOK for business analysis, DMBOK2 provides a detailed framework for organizations to manage their data and mature their information infrastructure. It is used to assess and improve […].

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Specialized tools for machine learning development and model governance are becoming essential

O'Reilly on Data

Why companies are turning to specialized machine learning tools like MLflow. A few years ago, we started publishing articles (see “Related resources” at the end of this post) on the challenges facing data teams as they start taking on more machine learning (ML) projects. Along the way, we described a new job role and title—machine learning engineer —focused on creating data products and making data science work in production, a role that was beginning to emerge in the San Francisco Bay Area two

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.