Delivering Quality – Where it Counts, When it Counts
Considering a data quality program? What’s the best way to implement it? One of the decisions that organizations must make…
Are You Securing Your Data Enough With Encryption and 2FA?
There are two strategies that are regarded fool-proof when it comes to data security - encryption and two-factor-authentication (2FA). The…
Getting Started with BI on ERP: an MS Dynamics Example
For any business intelligence solution to be effective, it needs to have demonstrable value for business users and to actually…
Analytics Teams: Own The Business Problem, Not An Infrastructure
Analytics teams have devoted the last few decades building large and elaborate infrastructures that attempt to gather and harmonize essential…
Smart Cities of the Future: An Innovation or Intrusion?
In September of 2015, the Obama Administration announced their “Smart Cities” Initiative. The initiative represented a $160 million investment…
5 Dark Data Sources that Lead to Better Marketing Analytics
Marketers have greater opportunities to reach target audiences today than ever before. There are endless ways to engage with prospects…
Tips for Exploring Financial Data with Business Intelligence
One of the main advantages modern business intelligence brings to the table is the ability to perform exploratory data analysis…
Four Key Steps For Enterprise IoT Security
There’s been a lot of press recently about the problems of IoT security: easily hackable smart locks, as many as 100M…
A Recipe for Cooking with the Hadoop Ecosystem
It’s part of my job to cover the ecosystem of Hadoop, the open source big data technology, but sometimes it…
How to become a Data Driven Business
Data is everywhere. All businesses have access to it. Yet, turning data into actionable insights and becoming a data-driven business can…