Despite the surge in interest and sales of modern data discovery tools like SAP BusinessObjects Lumira and SAP BusinessObjects Cloud, corporations are still really, really interested in reporting.…
I’m an innovation evangelist with SAP. Each year, I present at about 50 conferences around the world, talking to business and IT audiences about the impact of the…
The NBA is the #1 global sports league — and analytics is helping make it even better. (more…)
I’ve been working in Business Intelligence and Analytics for over twenty-five years. With some confidence and a lot of cynicism, here are my predictions for 2017:Business People (more…)
Artificial intelligence is gaining traction faster than anybody imagined — quickly knocking down the dominoes of complex tasks that computers have long struggled with. For example, in…
You will still always have some on-premise software (at least until internet access is free, instantly fast, and 100% ubiquitous — i.e. never.) But the bulk of your…
We’re now clearly in an exponential technology world. Each year brings the same amount of innovation as the previous several years — and the human brain finds…
Data is at the very core of the business models of the future – and this means wrenching change for some organizations. (more…)
Predictive analytics / machine learning / artificial intelligence is a hot topic – what it’s about? (more…)
It turns out that what’s stopping people from moving to cloud analytics isn’t what I expected.I recently moderated a web seminar with a presentation from Dan Vesset of…
