Office 365: Is It Right for the Enterprise?
Microsoft is making a big push to bolster enterprise interest in Office 365. The latest enticement comes in…
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Apache Fineract Open-Source Financial Services Application Graduates
The open-source Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has many different processes, including one for how a new project can…
Where Is AI Headed in the Enterprise?
Talk about artificial intelligence, and most people think about machines that can reason. In a business context that…
Chief Data Officer Role Continues to Evolve
Chief data officers (CDOs) are playing a strategic role in many — though not all — organizations, thanks…
7 Notable Data Visualization Tools
Data visualization has come a long way in recent years. Where once you might get an occasional bar…
Cloud Apps Gain Traction with Finance Function
Though the initial movement was slow, more firms are moving at least part of their finance functions to…
Hadoop Evolution: What You Need to Know
It’s been a decade since Hadoop became an Apache software project and released version 0.1.0. The open source…
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,…
Startup Spotlight: CrowdFlower’s Data Enrichment Platform
There are not enough data scientists to go around for companies hoping to capitalize on their growing streams…
Vertical CRM Not Just for Little Guys
CRM market leaders Salesforce, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft account for less than half of the total CRM market.…
Banking on Chief Data Officers
Gartner has predicted that 25 percent of organizations will employ chief data officers (CDOs) by 2017. The figure…
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…
3 Tips to Boost Mobile App Adoption
By Mark Lorion, Apperian Enterprise mobile apps can be transformational for every department and across every industry. But…
Mobile App Use Continues to Evolve: Good Technology
In the early days of mobile apps, the prevailing wisdom was that people would consume content, but not…
Should You Build an Apple Watch App?
By Glenn Gruber, Propelics The allure of Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS) is strong. And whether it be “a-loo-min-ium”…
Where Are Mobile Payments Headed?
Apple has garnered much of the mobile payments hype following the introduction of Apple Pay last October and…
How Is Hadoop Evolving to Meet Big Data Needs?
Hadoop just keeps on growing. According to Allied Market Research, the Hadoop market is worth around $3 billion…
Is Apache Spark Enterprise Ready?
Apache Spark is making headlines as potentially the next big thing in Big Data. Coverage has focused on…
6 Tech Trends Shaping Financial Services
Financial institutions will count on technology more than ever in 2015 to handle the increasing complexities of business…
Finance Departments Need More Advanced Analytics
Analytics is nothing new in finance. Chief financial officers (CFOs) and their staffs have been using them for…
Analyzing Big Data: General Purpose Tool or Domain-Specific App?
By Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji, Databricks The explosion of data across the enterprise has led to an increased focus on…
10 CRM Predictions for 2015
When we surveyed experts about CRM trends, cloud, integration with analytics and speed of deployment are among the…
Data Analysis Enables Omni-channel Marketing
Marketing has been called more of an art than a science. Yet in today’s financial services environment, the…
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,…
The Down Low on Data Lakes
Data lakes are the latest incarnation of the democratize data for business theme. The idea is simple: Pool…
Business Intelligence Getting More Pervasive: BARC
For years companies have indicated they wanted to take business intelligence and analytics out of the purview of…
Anaplan Intros App Sharing Community for Enterprise Planning
When Anaplan, a provider of cloud-based operations and financial planning software, raised $100 million in Series D funding…
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…
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…
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…
Salesforce Revamps Sales, Service Apps
With less than a week to go until Dreamforce, CRM giant Salesforce is already making major announcements that…
App Integration Underpins Customer Engagement
Within the next five years, CIOs will have to deal with thousands of cloud applications and millions of…
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…
8 Keys to Enterprise App Store Success
Enterprise apps stores offer a convenient portal that allows employees to download a selection of tested and trusted…
How to Buy Cloud Finance Apps
The cloud has invaded many areas of the enterprise, and recently it has been the turn of finance…
Logi Analytics Expands Big Data Influence with Partnerships
Logi Analytics, provider of a Web-based data discovery solution, has inked partnerships with more than half a dozen…
Information Governance in Age of Mobile, Cloud and Social
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Enterprise data is no longer restricted to transaction-based and other legacy systems. Companies…
Application Performance Management Buying Guide
Because application performance management (APM) is a complex area influenced by a multitude of factors, trying to sum…
Chief Data Officer: 4 Reasons to Hire a CDO
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Recently, I read an interesting article about how the search effort for the…
10 Keys to Creating a Mobile ERP Strategy
Mobile ERP has been on the enterprise radar for a while now, with experts telling us companies will…
IBM Offers Cloud Analytics as a Service
While most organizations are eager to get Big Data projects off the ground, early adopters are running into…
Cloud a Key Part of ‘Postmodern ERP’
ERP is changing. Large ERP vendors like Oracle and SAP are now active participants in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and…
Top 10 Trends in Cloud ERP
Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software hasn’t really caught on yet. But according to a recent Gartner survey,…
Using Analytics to Measure Mobile App Success
By Nitin Bhatia At an undisclosed location, the countdown has been initiated: five, four, three, two, one and…