What’s Ahead for Enterprise Data in 2016?
by Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates As enterprises look into 2016, they are faced with new and continually more…
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Clari Intros Sales Analytics Tool to Enhance Pipeline Visibility
Sales analytics in traditional CRM systems, like other types of analytics, have largely provided “after the fact” analysis…
9 Data Preparation Tips for Predictive Analytics Success
How important is data preparation when it comes to analytics success? It is so important, said Mike Gualtieri,…
Apache Arrow to Accelerate Open Source Big Data Analytics
The Apache Software Foundation is rolling out a new top level project this week, and it’s one that…
Predictive Analytics Software Buying Guide
While many vendors sell analytics software, not all of them provide predictive analytics, a far more specialized field.…
Getting Started with Predictive Analytics in 5 Easy Steps
If you want to know what’s likely to happen in your business, you need predictive analytics. Predictive analytics…
Predictive Analytics Now Easier but Still No Cake Walk
While predictive analytics used to be the sole purview of data scientists and a few highly skilled analysts,…
Pentaho Expands Data Analysis with Python [PODCAST]
There are a lot of different ways for data scientists to manipulate data. Pentaho, a Hitachi Group company,…
10 Data Analytics Predictions for 2016
The last few years have seen some big changes in data analytics, with companies creating new business models…
Tableau Gets Native iPhone App with Latest Version
When it comes to mobile apps — especially highly visual ones like data analytics — few things are…
9 Useful Open Source Big Data Tools
It’s impossible to talk about Big Data without mentioning Apache Hadoop. But Hadoop is just a part of…
Speedier Data Analysis Focus of Attensity’s DiscoverNow
Data about companies’ customers is contained in a plethora of enterprise applications and in a growing number of…
Startup Spotlight: Snowflake Computing’s Elastic Data Warehouse
It’s been a busy year for Snowflake Computing, a data warehouse provider that officially slipped out of stealth…
Should You Automate Business Intelligence?
By Heine Krog Iversen, TimeXtender Business intelligence can deliver great value because it allows people to get reliable…
Big and Fast Data: Upgrading Your Infrastructure
Providing the infrastructure for both Big Data and the newer Fast Data is not yet a matter of…
Pentaho 6 Blends Virtual and Physical Data for Business Intelligence
Pentaho is set to debut its new Pentaho 6 Enterprise 6 and community editions, providing users with new…
Seeking Truth about Hadoop
Hadoop has been around for a decade and has been a hotly hyped technology for much of that…
Getting Data Governance Right
By W. Matthew Wagnon, BackOffice Associates It’s no secret that data is a hot topic in today’s market.…
9 Tips for Awesome Data Analytics
Companies routinely say they want to make analytics a key part of their business strategies – and some…
5 Best Practices for Fast Data
As vendors and users testified at last month’s In-Memory Computing Summit, the relatively low cost of flash memory…
Humana Using Analytics to Improve Health Outcomes
Earlier this year a CDW survey revealed that analytics is a top priority for two thirds of decision-makers…
Getting Good BI Without a Single Version of the Truth
Remember that scene from “A Few Good Men” where Tom Cruise wants the truth and Jack Nicholson tells…
Analyzing Archived Data Yields Big Returns
You may believe you’re maximizing the value of your data archives, but a recent IDC report found most…
3 Limits of NoSQL Data Processing
For several years Hadoop-based alternatives to traditional SQL databases have been the focus of user attention. After all…
Big Data Analytics Goes Hollywood
A movie theater used to receive a film reel from a distributor and display the title for weeks…
Workday Venture Fund Focuses on Machine Learning, Data Science
Workday decided to put its money where its mouth is. The provider of cloud finance and human resources…
Cutting through Internet of Things Hype
The early buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) included breathless accounts of refrigerators that could alert you…
Banking on Chief Data Officers
Gartner has predicted that 25 percent of organizations will employ chief data officers (CDOs) by 2017. The figure…
IoT in the Sky
The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the potential to create new business models, streamline business processes and reduce…
Stop Talking about Data: Value Lies in Information
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates I’m about to make a statement that, at the surface, will seem contrarian…
Metanautix Enables Software-Defined Data Marts
We’ve heard a lot about software-defined storage and software-defined data centers, but Big Data analytics startup Metanautix has…
Making Government Data Less of a Disaster
Anyone working in the accounts department or who owns a small business knows about the administrative practices of…
Startup Spotlight: Interana’s Self-Service Data Analytics
“Shared annoyance” inspired the founders of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Interana to build a business. “The idea that…
Embedded Analytics: Sky’s the Limit, but So Is Cost
Business leaders are impatient for data that can yield game-changing insights, and they’re well aware that enterprise applications…
Pentaho 5.4 Gets New Spark
In February of this year, Hitachi Data Systems announced its intention to acquire privately-held business intelligence vendor Pentaho.…
5 Metrics for Digital Success
By Aaron Rudger, Keynote Organizations large and small across industries are embracing the digital age. Increasingly, these businesses…
5 Lessons from Data Analytics Ninjas
Not long ago Enterprise Apps Today highlighted four data analytics success stories, companies that are successfully using data…
Is Hadoop Maturity in Sight?
There is no escaping the outpouring of hype about Hadoop. Some see it as heading toward maturity in…
Why Walmart Doesn’t Have Legacy IT
As CIO of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart’s Karenann Terrell handles her share of IT challenges, some unique…
Salesforce Brings Big Data to Analytics Cloud
You need Big Data to generate big insights – or so a growing number of folks seem to…
Data Professionals Not Going Away, at Least Not Soon
Software vendors continue to create data analysis tools for the average business user, eliminating some of the complex…
Big Oil, Meet Big Data Analytics
ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s largest energy companies, is using the power of Big Data analytics to improve…
4 Data Analytics Success Stories
There is a lot of hype out there about Big Data’s ability to transform your business and how…
Data Lake or Information Reservoir?
Data lakes are drawing new attention these days, as Gartner criticizes the idea and EMC touts a “data…
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…
Birst, Tableau in Business Intelligence Partnership
Cloud analytics provider Birst last spring released a data visualization tool called Birst Visualizer. So it seems a…
Diving into Data Lakes
There is a lot of hype out there about the wonders of data lakes, as well as cautions…
Host Analytics Intros Modeling Cloud
Finance departments are increasingly seeking more sophisticated analytics, self-service analytics and improved access to financial and operational data.…
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…
Startup Spotlight: Sisense’s Big Data Analytics
If there is one trait that distinguishes successful startups from less successful ones, it is coming up with…