Leveraging Metadata for (Really) Big Data
The word “metadata” has different meanings for different people. Most people think of this as the embodiment of big brother…
Top 4 Things Businesses Should Know about Apple WatchOS 2
We’ve spent some time since the Apple Watch was announced last year getting intimately familiar with the operating system, the…
Which BI Analytics Tool Does My Company Need?
Over the years, many business intelligence (BI) tool styles have emerged to match the varied ways that business people need to analyze…
Schema on Read vs Schema on Write and Why Shakespeare Hates Me
A couple of months ago, I found myself without a full time gig for the first time in decades, and…
Mobile App Development: How to Choose Between Native vs. Web vs. Hybrid
Companies looking to build an app for consumers or their own internal users can choose from three different mobile app…
Spark vs. Hadoop: Not Enemies, but Sidekicks
While you might have been hearing about Apache Spark and all of the things it can do, you might be…
Will the New Apple TV Revolutionize the Conference Room?
As much as Microsoft currently dominates the business world, we can’t deny that the consumer in us is rooting for…
Regulated Cloud Data: A Day in the Life
Like America's love of tennis, the cloud economy is growing exponentially. As organizations aggressively push cloud adoption, more sensitive and…
Big Intelligence: BI Meets Big Data, with Apache Drill
Welcome to a whole new world of data exploration—a world where SQL specialists are now first class citizens and no…
1 Year Later: What Apple Watch Is Doing for Business Productivity
A year ago, the infamous Apple Watch came out. While it received mixed reviews, we wrote up a blog on…