Occam's Razor
JULY 24, 2018
The universe of digital analytics is massive and can seem as complex as the cosmic universe. With such big, complicated subjects, we can get lost in the vast wilderness or become trapped in a silo. We can wander aimlessly, or feel a false sense of either accomplishment or frustration. Consequently, we lose sight of where we are, how we are doing and which direction is true north.
Boris Evelson
JULY 24, 2018
Qlik, a Leader in our recent Forrester Wave™ evaluation on business intelligence (BI), has acquired Podium Data, a Contender in our big data fabric Wave. In a humble opinion of yours truly, this is further proof of a trend showing that BI buyers are increasingly seeking end-to-end platforms and solutions, rather than separate BI/ETL components that need […].
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IBM Big Data Hub
JULY 25, 2018
Data science and machine learning provide the basis for business growth, cost and risk reduction and even new business model creation -- but implementing predictive analytics does present some challenges. IT Central Station members have shared tips that help organizations overcome the challenges in effective data preparation, model development and training.
DataRobot Blog
JULY 23, 2018
by Jen Underwood. Grab the popcorn and a cool beverage. Shark Week (#SharkWeek) is upon us once again. Truth be told – I look forward to it. Shark Week is an annual, week-long TV programming. Read More.
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Paul Turley
JULY 27, 2018
The message from the Microsoft Business Applications Summit this week was very clear: Power BI is growing up. We have known for a while that Power BI is a great front-end tool for enterprise-scale tabular and multidimensional models.
Boris Evelson
JULY 26, 2018
I recently answered a client question regarding an application that could be based on either business intelligence (BI) or text analytics technology. Question: “We receive quarterly and yearly account statements for our investments. Each statement will contain key pieces of information, such as total contributions, expenses, interest income, etc.
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CIO Business Intelligence
JULY 23, 2018
The past few weeks the FIFA World Cup soccer has been a huge topic of conversation within our offices, conversations made all the more lively based on the fact that our colleagues work in offices all over the world, many of them in countries that were well represented by teams during the tournament. So after having flags up throughout the office and various viewing parties, it struck me that there are some service management lessons we can learn from all of this hoopla.
Bruno Aziza
JULY 24, 2018
How DataOps is helping businesses accelerate time to value and deliver more satisfied consumers.
Nutanix
JULY 26, 2018
Manufacturing organizations often join us in our Executive Briefing Center (EBC) to learn how Nutanix Enterprise Cloud can help modernize their infrastructure. We value the opportunity to hear about their vision and the challenges they face.
Data Science and Beyond
JULY 22, 2018
I got my first data science job in 2012, the year Harvard Business Review announced data scientist to be the sexiest job of the 21st century. Two years later, I published a post on my then-favourite definition of data science , as the intersection between software engineering and statistics. Unfortunately, that definition became somewhat irrelevant as more and more people jumped on the data science bandwagon – possibly to the point of making data scientist useless as a job title.
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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.
Smarten
JULY 26, 2018
Smart Data Visualization can radically improve your business intelligence, data discovery and analytics. It can streamline the work process of business users, improve the accuracy of planning and forecasting and ensure better, more timely, more accurate business decisions. What is Smart Data Visualization? Smart Visualization tools allow users to gather various data components and tell a story.
Smarten
JULY 23, 2018
Self-Serve Data Discovery Tools Must be Sophisticated Yet Easy to Use! Self-Serve advanced analytics and data discovery software is an important competitive tool in today’s rapidly changing environment. Data resides in a lot of places within the organization and access to that data in an intuitive, integrated environment is important. Equally important is the democratization of that data so that business users can easily access the Advanced Analytics Software and use augmented data discove
Smarten
JULY 25, 2018
Data Discovery Tools and Data Governance: A Dynamite Combination! If your organization is planning to implement advanced analytics tools or to democratize the use of data discovery tools, your IT staff and senior management are probably concerned about losing control of data access and about data security. Data governance is a real concern and it should not be minimized but there is no reason to change course and decide against data democracy just to accommodate data governance.
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