What Makes a BI Team World Class?
Some years ago, I was asked to do a presentation for a Nordic Telecom company. The company had grown rapidly through acquisitions around…
7 Data Modeling Mistakes that Will Sink your Analysis
You have a goal. You want to gain actionable insights from all of this data that you have been collecting.…
Cloud Managed Services Provider (MSP) Is it really about services or winning customer trust?
We have entered the era of outcome economy, or it would be appropriate to say that we are slowly entering…
Data Lakes: Safe Way to Swim in Big Data?
It has been more than five years since James Dixon of Pentaho coined the term “data lake.” His original post suggests,…
The Worst Case Scenario: Manufacturing Company Data Loss
We don’t often like to think about the worst case scenario when it comes to our businesses, but the fact…
Four Really Real Meanings of Real-Time
Our director of engineering told me that she had a customer ask if we could do real-time data processing with Syncsort…
IBM Study Shows Big Data Improves Food Safety
Food safety is a very serious concern for every restaurant manager. Contamination or an outbreak can jeopardize the health of…
How listening to our cars will improve the driving experience
Smart technology is already being used in cars, but we're just at the very beginning. It’s a given that Over-the-Air …
Why Embedded Analytics is a Game Changer for UX
As a quick recap, embedded analytics generally means including consumer-facing BI and analytics tools within a separate application, as part…
Internet of Things Requires Operational Intelligence
The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is an extension of digital connectivity to devices and sensors in homes, businesses, vehicles…