Data Lake or Information Reservoir?
Data lakes are drawing new attention these days, as Gartner criticizes the idea and EMC touts a “data lake” product. There is mass confusion about just what a data lake is. The real value of the notion of a data…
Wayne Kernochan
Wayne Kernochan has been an IT industry analyst and auther for over 15 years. He has been focusing on the most important information-related technologies as well as ways to measure their effectiveness over that period. He also has extensive research on the SMB, Big Data, BI, databases, development tools and data virtualization solutions. Wayne is a regular speaker at webinars and is a writer for many publications.
Adaptive Insights Simplifying CPM with New Tools
Adaptive Insights, a provider of cloud corporate performance (CPM) management software, unveiled this week a new service called Adaptive Solutions that aims to help customers more quickly and easily deploy CPM apps by providing a collection of pre-configured best practices…
5 Alternatives to the Traditional Relational Database
The ongoing popularity of the Hadoop approach to data management should not blind us to the opportunities offered by other database technologies – technologies that, when used in the proper mix, can deliver adequate scaling to meet the demands of…
Business Intelligence 103: The Future Lies Ahead
My third assessment of business intelligence focuses on upcoming technologies that may or may not have a significant positive impact on effective use of BI. It is done in the spirit of one of President Lyndon Johnson’s most meaningless quotes,…
Business Intelligence 102: It’s Come a Long Way, Baby
In my last article, I took a look at the basics of business intelligence: its purpose (giving the business on an ongoing basis its current state, e.g., sales, profits and losses), its typical architecture (data warehouse plus supporting software and…
Business Intelligence 101: A Brief History
The purpose of business Intelligence (BI) solutions is pretty much the same as the purpose of “military intelligence”: to give commanders at every stage of a campaign a good view of the battlefield and the pros and cons of their…
5 Data Discovery Pitfalls
By Rado Kotorov Data visualization is fast becoming an area of interest for organizations seeking to benefit from the wealth of structured and unstructured data in the enterprise. Solutions are emerging to meet this need, but before companies make a…
SnapLogic Hopes to Ease Cloud Integration Woes
Companies that want to adopt cloud-based enterprise applications seemingly face some daunting challenges when it comes to integrating them with on-premise apps or even other cloud apps. As Loraine Lawson wrote on IT Business Edge, citing InformationWeek’s State of Cloud…
IBM’s Watson Will Change Your Data Analytics – but How?
IBM’s Watson software offers a new and distinctly different approach to analyzing data. It differs from more traditional approaches in three key ways: It understands much more of the “semantics” of information – the assumptions and implicit meanings behind it…
How Qualitative Research Can Improve Your Business Analytics
In the social sciences areas of academia, qualitative research is a hot topic – which usually means that it turns out to be highly useful in understanding your business’ customers, in B2B or in consumer markets. Moreover, the software tools…
