Diving into Data Lakes
There is a lot of hype out there about the wonders of data lakes, as well as cautions about the dangers of them turning into data swamps. Much of this debate about the true value of data lakes is premature.…
Drew Robb
Drew Robb is a writer who has been writing about IT, engineering, and other topics. Originating from Scotland, he currently resides in Florida.
Highly skilled in rapid prototyping innovative and reliable systems.
He has been an editor and professional writer full-time for more than 20 years. He works as a freelancer at Enterprise Apps Today, CIO Insight and other IT publications. He is also an editor-in chief of an international engineering journal. He enjoys solving data problems and learning abstractions that will allow for better infrastructure.
Big Data, IoT Drive Enterprise Adoption of Wearables
Saar Bitner, Sisense Will.i.am recently released his version of the smartwatch, the Puls, which cements wearable technology as the next go-to accessory of celebrity fashion lines. Looking beyond their stylish appeal, the next generation of Big Data-enabled wearables contributes to…
Human Capital Management Buying Guide
Earlier this month, we covered 5 key trends in human capital management. (HCM). In this buying guide, we offer users some tips on implementation and a brief overview of the vendor landscape. A few years ago, HCM was dominated by…
1010data Intros Integration with Open Source R
While the open source R programming language has been popular for data analysis and statistical modeling, it has been tough to use with large data sets because it runs as a single thread on a machine, which limits the amount…
5 Key Human Capital Management Trends
While human capital management (HCM) is far from the hottest area of the enterprise applications market, it is gaining ground. HCM is perhaps best defined as an umbrella term that is gradually replacing what used to be separate best-of-breed systems…
FinancialForce.com Tackles Rebate Revenue Management
Closed-loop business processes, even ones that directly impact the bottom line, are relatively rare in supply chain management. Instead, many businesses cobble together information with tools like spreadsheets and email. Cloud ERP provider FinancialForce.com is targeting one such process, by…
7 Ways Docker Containers Can Change Enterprise Apps
Docker has certainly gotten a lot of press of late. It is an open platform for distributed applications that allows developers and IT administrators to build, ship and run applications anywhere. This open source project is said to empower IT…
Lavastorm Simplifies Predictive Analytics
Many business intelligence experts, including those who made recent business intelligence and analytics predictions for 2015, predict that data analysis will continue to become more democratic this year, with business users gaining the ability to perform their own “what-if” analyses…
Finance Departments Need More Advanced Analytics
Analytics is nothing new in finance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their staffs have been using them for years to crunch numbers and draw insight from balance sheets, income statements and cash-flow statements. But how analytics is being deployed appears…
9 Business Intelligence and Analytics Predictions for 2015
When we asked analysts, forecasters and pundits for their predictions for the most relevant business intelligence and analytics trends for 2015, they came up with a host of topics, including mobile maturity, Hadoop growth, better text analysis and incorporation of…