Can Cloud Apps Make Employees Happy?
Lower cost, enhanced flexibility and speedier deployments are among the key selling points for cloud applications. It turns…
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Forget Big Data; Focus on Relevant Data
“You don’t need a lot of data to make decisions, just the right data,” Greg Przyklenk, senior manager,…
Enterprises Are Leading the Way in Wearable Technology
Business technology is rarely seen as “sexy.” Yet despite the recent focus on the consumerization of IT, the…
The Down Low on Data Lakes
Data lakes are the latest incarnation of the democratize data for business theme. The idea is simple: Pool…
Can This Project Be Saved? Yes, with Data First Approach
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates In my last article, we discussed how organizations can effectively deliver, improve and…
Business Intelligence Getting More Pervasive: BARC
For years companies have indicated they wanted to take business intelligence and analytics out of the purview of…
5 Open Source Business Intelligence Tools
It’s impossible to imagine making good business decisions without the right information to back up the decision making…
3 Strategies to Prepare Data for Analytics
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Many people would agree with the claim that analytics is the most important…
Elasticsearch Uses Power of Community for Open Source Analytics [VIDEO]
In the modern world, understanding data is a prized and valuable enterprise IT activity. Among the myriad tools…
Loyalty Program Leaders Leverage Data Analytics
Most people have wallets loaded with loyalty program cards and/or smartphones loaded with loyalty apps. Yet most companies…
How IoT Will Change Big Data Analytics
What do SAS, Cisco, Duke Energy and AT&T have in common? They are all big proponents of the…
Generic vs. Custom Field Service Apps
By Edward Wahl, Art & Logic Some circumstances call for generic, one-size-fits-all business applications. Others require apps built…
Consumers Love Mobile Marketing, Location-based Services
Mobile marketing works, yet most marketers today have yet to seize on the opportunity, according to Greg Stuart,…
10 Open Source ERP Options
Take a look at the ERP market and you’ll find a landscape dominated by a handful of commercial…
9 Tips for Building Terrific Mobile Retail Apps
Mobile devices play an increasingly prominent role in Americans’ online shopping experiences, a trend illustrated by growth in…
IoT Driving New Business Models
The Internet of Things is a misnomer. While both the Internet and “things” are involved, IoT is not…
Microsoft Cloud Apps vs. Best of Breed
When you think of Microsoft, you naturally think of operating systems like Windows for the desktop and server.…
Self-service BI Initiatives Fall Short
“Self-service” is a term that implies ease of use. Yet too often, it’s not easy enough. While self-service…
Analytics Playing Greater Role in ERP
Are the terms enterprise resource planning (ERP) and business intelligence (BI) destined to become obsolete, replaced by something…
5 Ways to Build Cooler Enterprise Apps
By Anthony Petro, K2 Enterprise application developers have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to notoriety…
Cloud Analytics a Winner for SAS
Cloud analytics was the big news at this week’s annual Premier Business Leadership Series (PBLS) event held by…
Startup Spotlight: Attentive.ly Puts Social to Work
Motherhood is hard for a working woman in any field, but especially so in industries like technology that…
Cloud ERP Acceptance on Upswing
ERP is beginning to experience a shift that has already shaped other enterprise applications like CRM, according to…
Process Automation a Key to Business Value
One of the most interesting trends in recent memory is the adoption of IT service management (ITSM) in…
Analytics ROI Is Strong, and Getting Stronger
Analytics is at the center of technology spending for many enterprises. “Analytics is the most desired function across…
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…
5 Tips for Buying Big Data Tools
Not everyone can agree on a definition for Big Data. Though many experts, including Gartner, cite high volume,…
Big Data Analytics Needs a Code of Ethics
Just how much data can private companies (or government agencies for that matter) collect on individuals and how…
CRM Integration More Important than a Pretty Interface
I recently wrote about a growing emphasis on usability in CRM applications, especially mobile apps. Vendors are focusing…
Get Ready for (Another) Microsoft Audit
By Tim Hegedus, Miro Consulting Nearly 60 percent of executives report having been audited by Microsoft in the…
Digital Marketers Focus on Integration: Teradata Survey
In enterprise technology, as in consumer technology, it’s tempting to buy first and sort out all the details…
12 Open Source CRM Options
Talk about customer relationship management (CRM) software and you’ll probably be thinking about on-premise software packages or software-as-a-service…
A ‘Data First’ Approach, in 3 Phases
by Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates At last year’s Gartner Business Intelligence and Analytics Summit, the failure rate of…
Data Visualization: Old Practice, New Value
Data visualization is not new. During a recent International Institute for Analytics (IIA) webinar, Bill Franks, chief analytics…
IT Service Management No Longer Just an ‘IT Thing’
IT organizations have long used IT service management (ITSM) systems and the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) framework…
Data Discovery Is Changing Business Intelligence
While CIOs are bullish on business intelligence, other C-level executives are not quite as enthused. And end users…
5 Ways Data Warehousing Is Changing
By Poulomi Damany, BitYota It’s a new era for data warehousing. Enterprises now draw upon multi-source, semi-structured data…
App Integration Underpins Customer Engagement
Within the next five years, CIOs will have to deal with thousands of cloud applications and millions of…
Mobile CRM Buying Guide
In our earlier article, experts offered their tips on making mobile CRM initiatives a success. This buying guide…
CRM Is Getting More (Gasp) Usable
Stability, security, scalability: For years, these were the primary criteria companies used in selecting enterprise software. Usability, if…
Enterprise Software Leads IT Spending Growth
Gartner recently released a Worldwide IT Spending Forecast, highlighting the fact that enterprise software is going to experience…
Forget Omni-channel; Retailers Move to Unified Commerce Model
In Macy’s latest annual report, the company refers to itself as an “omni-channel retail organization operating stores and…
SharePoint Updates Ease Move to Cloud
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 has been out for quite some time and received a Service Pack update earlier…
Startup Spotlight: BitYota’s Data Warehouse-as-a-Service
Yahoo has been widely credited with helping create the Big Data phenomenon by popularizing the open source Hadoop…
Leverage Metadata for Document Management
By Mika Javanainen, M-Files Corporation The emergence of PCs in the 1980s profoundly changed the way that businesses…
Is SAP’s HANA Gaining Traction with Platform Approach?
Interest in in-memory database technology is picking up, thanks to the speed with which it can retrieve data…
8 Suggestions for Mobile CRM Success
Mobile CRM is on a real growth tear. Last year Gartner predicted a 500 percent growth rate for…
Put Data Quality in Motion with Passive Data Governance
By Michael Collins, BackOffice Associates Establishing a passive data governance strategy is one of the most important steps…
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…
Chief Data Officers Put ‘Strategy’ in Data Strategy
It can feel like a little like executive overload, with companies adding emerging roles like chief digital officer…