By W. Matthew Wagnon, BackOffice Associates It’s no secret that data is a hot topic in today’s market. The value of having business ready data, available every day, has never been so important. The emergence of the chief data officer…
Companies routinely say they want to make analytics a key part of their business strategies – and some of them successfully use analytics to gain an edge over competitors. Yet many companies still lag behind the data analytics curve. In…
As vendors and users testified at last month’s In-Memory Computing Summit, the relatively low cost of flash memory is driving databases and apps toward leveraging Fast Data – mobile and sensor cloud data – using systems whose storage is predominantly…
Earlier this year a CDW survey revealed that analytics is a top priority for two thirds of decision-makers in the health care industry. Nearly 70 percent of respondents said they were planning for or already implementing analytics. This is no…
Remember that scene from “A Few Good Men” where Tom Cruise wants the truth and Jack Nicholson tells him he can’t handle it? The same could be said about business intelligence (BI), according to Forrester Research analyst Boris Evelson. “BI…
You may believe you’re maximizing the value of your data archives, but a recent IDC report found most organizations are missing out on millions in potential savings and revenue opportunities. “Mining for Insight: Rediscovering the Data Archive” reports 39 percent…
For several years Hadoop-based alternatives to traditional SQL databases have been the focus of user attention. After all they are cheap or open source, well versed in public cloud environments and, in many cases, scalable to larger amounts of Big…
A movie theater used to receive a film reel from a distributor and display the title for weeks until the next reel rolled into town. A hit movie’s name might remain on the marquee for a couple of months. Since…
Workday decided to put its money where its mouth is. The provider of cloud finance and human resources apps, which late last year announced a suite of software that it said leveraged data science and machine learning methods, has launched…
The early buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) included breathless accounts of refrigerators that could alert you that your milk was about to go bad and when you should reorder eggs or other staples. Why go to all that…