In the New Information Economy, self-service use provides an empirical basis for demand. If people repeatedly use self-service tools to construct certain kinds of data flows, to perform certain kinds of analyses, or to access and integrate data from as-yet-unmanaged internal or external data sources, that's a critical signal to IT. These are use cases that must and should be identified, standardized, and productized as reusable information assets.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 22, 2016
Limitations of ETL and how to get around them, plus big data project failure due to miscommunication among employees and how bad data quality prevents good marketing automation.
- By Quint Turner
- February 22, 2016
Decision makers seek meaning in their information, hoping to achieve wisdom to incorporate into their decisions.
- By Barry Devlin
- February 22, 2016
Overcoming common data visualization pitfalls, pretty pictures aren't enough for effective visualization, and how to craft a persuasive data presentation.
- By Quint Turner
- February 19, 2016
Canadian National Railway puts big data to work keeping its system safe.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 17, 2016
It's relatively uncommon for consumers -- from enterprise buyers to rank-and-file users -- to get worked up over latest Gartner's Magic Quadrant report, but that’s exactly what happened earlier this month.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 17, 2016
Use open source and open architecture to get the most out of big data, plus why big data projects are increasingly successful but sill not reaching their full potential. Also: preventing cyberattacks.
- By Quint Turner
- February 17, 2016
Mobile business intelligence is a feature, not a product. The latest proof comes by virtue of today's announcement of SAP’s acquisition of Roambi, a vendor that specializes in mobile BI apps and services for Apple Inc.’s iOS platform.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 17, 2016