Why Oh Why Is It So Difficult? Implementing Sales and Operations Planning
Sometimes the hardest part about implementing Sales and Operations Planning (or any project) is just getting started. Sometimes the hardest…
Assisted Insight: The Future of Data Discovery
Businesses don’t want "data discovery", "visualization" or "analytics" tools – businesses want one thing: insight.The challenge has been how to provide…
How to Address the Big Data Talent Challenge
One of the greatest Big Data challenges ahead of us is the scarcity in the available talent. One of the…
Where in the World Does All this ESRI World Data Come from?
I was left highly impressed, and still deeply curious, about the guts behind what I saw attending the ESRI User…
Mark Hurd on Data, Demographics and Devices
"It's all going to be about who has got, not the most data, but who is able to get at…
IBM Brings Sophistication to Customer Analytics and Prediction
During recent IBM analyst big data event, I learned about a new product, IBM Predictive Customer Intelligence. It extracts and…
How to Make Your Department More Data-Friendly
It seems as though the entire world is abuzz about big data. If you get data alerts from Google much…
Understanding User Expectations
Self-service access to analytics is becoming a key component when trying to expand BI and analytics access throughout the organization.…
Answer to OTP Bypass: Out-of-Band Two-Factor Authentication
Trend Micro’s one-time password (OTP)-based two-factor authentication bypass report (PDF) is hardly news to those in the tech world, but…
Big Data: The 4 Layers Everyone Must Know
There is still so much confusion surrounding Big Data. I thought it might help to clarify the 4 key layers…
