Wayne Kernochan
4 Barriers to Big Data Success -- and Ways to Overcome Them
May 13, 2013Companies that are leveraging Big Data have identified four common barriers to Big Data success. Fortunately, all four barriers can be overcome with the right strategies.
Big Data Success: Focus on Customer, not Cost
April 12, 2013It may seem counterintuitive, but Wayne Kernochan says that companies successfully using Big Data deliberately do not make cost reduction a top focus.
3 Big Data Lessons from 2012 Presidential Campaign
March 11, 2013What can enterprises learn from how the two major political parties used Big Data in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign?
Want Better Analytics? Put Sentiment Analysis in Context
February 12, 2013While sentiment analysis shows a great deal of promise for improving customer interactions, companies must use it in context with their other market strategies.
Self-Service Business Intelligence: Not So Fast
November 26, 2012Yes, self-service business intelligence can offer major benefits -- but not if it becomes the major focus of an organization's effort to become more "agile."
Sentiment Analysis: 3 Points to Remember
October 29, 2012While sentiment analysis can be an effective addition to your customer analytics strategy, it is not a customer relationship cure-all.
5 Habits of Effective Agile BI
September 27, 2012Effective agile business intelligence modifies agile practices to the needs of BI. Sounds simple, but it can be difficult to stick to this principle. Five habits should help.
Three Ways Agile Marketing Can Use BI
August 27, 2012Wayne Kernochan outlines three key ways agile marketing can benefit from business intelligence and explains which BI best practices can move the needle.
7 Tools for Agile Business Intelligence
July 30, 2012Wayne Kernochan, president of Infostructure Associates, recommends seven different types of tools that can go a long way toward enabling agile business intelligence.
Making Connection Between Agile Business Intelligence, Agile Marketing
June 26, 2012It is pretty difficult to have agile marketing without agile business intelligence, says Wayne Kernochan of Infostructure Associates. Here, he discusses how agile business intelligence can help drive an agile marketing process.
Six Ways Data Virtualization Can Boost Business Intelligence Agility
May 30, 2012Wayne Kernochan of Infostructure Associates suggests six ways data virtualization can be employed to deliver increased business intelligence agility.
Whither Embedded Analytics?
April 27, 2012Wayne Kernochan of Infostructure Associates encourages IT buyers to look at embedded analytics, saying as the technology matures it will turn out benefits at least equal to the whiz-bang high-end Big Data analytics now being sold – although the benefits will arrive in smaller per-project chunks.
Business Intelligence Ain't Over Until Exploratory Data Analysis Sings
April 9, 2012Business intelligence analyst Wayne Kernochan, of Infostructure Associates, says it's a shame exploratory data analysis (EDA) doesn’t get more attention from enterprises looking to increase their competitive edge.
Making a Business Intelligence Case for Columnar Databases
March 14, 2012Wayne Kernochan of Infostructure Associates says columnar databases are making a comeback – and for good reason.
Big Data Not the Answer to Business Agility
February 28, 2012IT organizations must challenge vendors on their claims that their Big Data and business intelligence solutions "automagically" create business agility.
Business Analyst, IT Must Be Buddies for Effective Business Intelligence
January 19, 2012Business analysts and IT programmers should be friends, or at least effective collaborators. They are carrying out separate agile processes, and the value of these to business intelligence and to overall business agility is halved if they fight with each other instead of abetting each other.
Rethinking Business Intelligence for Marketing: Strategy, Technology, Metrics
December 22, 2011A recent IBM study highlights the shifting challenges for chief marketing officers and the potential for business intelligence.
Data Virtualization and Big Data Business Intelligence
November 7, 2011Data virtualization could be the glue that ties together data warehouses and social media data.
Big Data, MapReduce, Hadoop, NoSQL: The Relational Technology Behind the Curtain
October 20, 2011Hadoop has its limits for Big Data analytics – and relational databases may have more of a future than you think.
Rethinking Mobile Business Intelligence
September 7, 2011Mobile BI must take into account multiple devices, data needs and work environments in order to be successful.
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Virtualization
August 29, 2011'Move or stay' is the big decision facing business intelligence implementations – should data be local or centralized? Some new technologies make the decision a lot more interesting than it used to be.
Business Intelligence Challenged by Social, Mobile Data
August 15, 2011IT buyers need to look at the "other" category to determine which business intelligence vendors are flexible enough to keep up with fast-changing data sources.
Progress Software and Joe Isuzu: Process Intelligence, Not Business Agility
May 30, 2011Progress Software promises to improve business processes, but can the company also improve business agility?
Why Most Business Intelligence Projects Fail
May 2, 2011According to Gartner, 70 to 80 percent of business intelligence projects fail. The solution could be a more agile development process — and organization.
What Agile Business Intelligence Really Means
April 7, 2011Agile business intelligence isn't a one-time upgrade, but a continual process.
Microsoft and HP Could Reshape the IT Landscape
January 21, 2011Forced to pair up by the growing hardware and software dominance of IBM and Oracle, Microsoft and HP could grow increasingly closer over the next couple of years.
IBM's New Way of Selling IT
January 14, 2011IBM has gone from selling TCO to selling "outcomes." What does the change in IT sales tactics mean for enterprise applications customers?
How to Make Mobile Business Intelligence Work Now
December 10, 2010Mobile BI is a long way from mature, but there are ways users and vendors can make it work now — and your CRM program will reap the benefits.
Three Ideas That Could Bring Business Intelligence to the Masses
November 5, 2010There are three things that could put business intelligence capabilities at everyone's fingertips, but will they ever happen? A long-suffering industry observer offers his wish list for BI software.
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