Talk about artificial intelligence, and most people think about machines that can reason. In a business context that would mean clever AIs that could use their powerful intellects to become formidable business leaders that could outwit mere humans. But since…
Google has something of a penchant for changing the names of its products, and the latest one to be given a new moniker is Google Apps for Work. From now on – or until the next name change, at least…
When a company like Microsoft embraces open source software, it’s tempting to believe that the open source software model is better than the proprietary one and that companies should adopt an “open source first” policy: picking open source applications whenever…
“Store everything” and “analyze everything” are popular IT mantras, leading companies to build data lakes and use data analytics software. But that begs an important question. What kinds of business benefits can you gain from a business intelligence project? More…
Talk about customer relationship management (CRM) software and you’ll probably be thinking about on-premise software packages or software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings from big companies like Salesforce.com, SAP, Oracle or Microsoft. But there are plenty of viable open source CRM software options…
If you want to know what’s likely to happen in your business, you need predictive analytics. Predictive analytics is distinct from descriptive analytics, which shows what happened and when, and diagnostic analytics, which deals with why events happened in the…
A recent ruling on the legality of mobile device jailbreaking has cleared the way for productivity enhancing applications that Apple seeks to prevent. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) prohibits circumventing technological measures put in place by Apple to prevent…
It’s impossible to talk about Big Data without mentioning Apache Hadoop. But Hadoop is just a part of a thriving Big Data software ecosystem. There are plenty of other Big Data platforms and tools, and many of them are open…
Need an application to help you do a specific task more efficiently? Why not create it yourself? That is the thinking behind a growing phenomenon called “citizen development.” Gartner defines a citizen developer as anyone outside the IT department that…
By Heine Krog Iversen, TimeXtender Business intelligence can deliver great value because it allows people to get reliable feedback on complex action patterns. These actions can happen on an individual level or across departments, roles and teams. When properly used,…