Every analytics team knows that it’s important to align with the needs of the business. But there’s a hidden danger: relying too much on power users. (more…)
Analytics teams have devoted the last few decades building large and elaborate infrastructures that attempt to gather and harmonize essential business data. (more…)
There’s been a lot of press recently about the problems of IoT security: easily hackable smart locks, as many as 100M Volkswagens at risk, vulnerable light bulbs, and…
Some years ago, I was asked to do a presentation for a Nordic Telecom company. The company had grown rapidly through acquisitions around Europe and so had lots of different…
McLaren has been pioneering and innovating in the competitive world of Formula 1 since 1963. (more…)
Last month, the US and German SAP user communities released a white paper on Digital Transformation: The SAP User Community Perspective. (more…)
The latest edition of the Gartner BI Summit rolls out this week in Mumbai, India. (more…)
Posted: April 1st, 2016 — but sadly, not really an April Fool’sIn 1989, Howard Dresner — later a Gartner Group analyst — proposed “business intelligence” as an umbrella…
Over the last few months, I’ve seen more and more examples of organizations moving to modern analytics approaches based on real-time, actionable data, with greater use of…
Over the last quarter-century, the analytics industry has slowly gathered a lot of different technology options. Starting with simple reporting, there has been a steady increase in…
