By Michael Collins Examining an enterprise’s strategic master data within or across multiple systems to ensure quality and accuracy can be a daunting task; however, it can also pay major dividends. As all key business decisions and transactions are based…
For eight years now, Gartner has been issuing a Magic Quadrant (MQ) for business intelligence. The rise of advanced analytics has been so strong and sustained that the analyst firm has split off that portion of BI into its own…
The Data Mining Group, a vendor-led consortium of companies and organizations developing standards for statistical and data mining models, has released v 4.2 of the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML), an XML interchange format for statistical and data mining models.…
According to Gartner, the CRM market will reach $23.9 billion this year after several years of strong growth. Given that level of investment, companies obviously want to get as much value as possible out of their systems. It’s unfortunate, then,…
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…
Just as business is no longer confined by the walls of a company’s physical facilities, business intelligence (BI) has largely untethered itself from the centralized workstation. Industry-changing apps such as Uber are using mobile BI functionality to overwhelm a technologically…
Google is acquiring online and social marketing and e-commerce specialist Channel Intelligence for $125 million, the latter’s parent company ICG Group announced today. The companies expect to finalize the deal during the current quarter. Channel Intelligence provides Internet and social marketing services…
SAS is opening the Big Data visualization floodgates with an update to SAS Visual Analytics. The company is making the case for Big Data in departmental, multi-user environments by announcing that its in-memory analytics visualization software now supports a wider…
Omni-channel engagement is the latest battleground for retailers and the tech titans that they depend on for their sales software. Microsoft unveiled the latest version of Microsoft Dynamics for Retail at NRF 2013, the National Retail Federation’s annual conference and…
IBM took the wraps off new retailing software and solutions offerings under its Smarter Commerce banner during NRF 2013, the National Retail Federation’s annual conference and tradeshow, this week in New York City. The products arrive in the wake of changing…