Anyone working in the accounts department or who owns a small business knows about the administrative practices of the IRS. Countless letters are generated, penalties are seemingly assessed arbitrarily, and tax returns and other documents get lost. The agency is…
“Shared annoyance” inspired the founders of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Interana to build a business. “The idea that people are out there and cannot find things in their data drives us crazy,” said Ann Johnson, Interana’s CEO. “We want everyone…
In February of this year, Hitachi Data Systems announced its intention to acquire privately-held business intelligence vendor Pentaho. The deal officially closed yesterday, and Pentaho is now a Hitachi Data Systems company. As proof Pentaho isn’t sitting idle under new…
Not long ago Enterprise Apps Today highlighted four data analytics success stories, companies that are successfully using data analytics to do some pretty awesome things. The one that caught the fancy of many folks on Twitter was Canadian utility BC…
There is no escaping the outpouring of hype about Hadoop. Some see it as heading toward maturity in terms of its enterprise readiness, while others think it is the enabler of a new class of so-called data lakes. But more…
Channel data management is a relatively new discipline that is starting to catch on in tech and some other industries because of OEM companies’ desire for better insight into sales. The idea is to track sales all the way down…
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates The enterprise data journey is multi-faceted, requiring the marriage of systems integration, data migration, data quality, data governance and data archiving throughout the lifetime of your corporate data. Underpinning this process is the new concept…
Application integration has always been a pretty big deal, since few organizations purchase all or even most of their enterprise software from a single vendor. It’s an even bigger deal now with the rise of the cloud, as companies need…
Software vendors continue to create data analysis tools for the average business user, eliminating some of the complex or tedious processes, but businesses shouldn’t expect technology to bring about game-changing insight, experts say. “Does software make anyone a great musician?”…
ConocoPhillips, one of the world’s largest energy companies, is using the power of Big Data analytics to improve its operations and boost efficiency. At a session at the recent Interop conference, CIO Mike Pfister and Richard Barclay, Advanced Analytics program…