Big Data Gets a Budget Boost, But How Can It Help Your Business?
Big data is a big deal – so much so that Chancellor George Osborne announced plans for a centre dedicated…
Smart Cars and Big Data: Automotive Analytical Concerns
At the launch of the German auto industry event CeBit, Volkswagen’s chairman Martin Winterkorn stated, “The car must not become…
The Gladness and Sadness of March Madness
March is my favorite month. The weather starts to warm up (well, at least it used to). We honor St.…
BI on the Go: About Functionality and Level of Satisfaction
TEC recently published its 2014 Mobile BI Buyers Guide and a related blog post in which some results from a…
It’s Time to Ditch Scarcity Thinking
In J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit,” Smaug the magnificent dragon sits on his nearly unlimited hoard of treasure and coins and…
Are You Making the Most of Your Dark Data?
My favorite definition of ‘Dark Data’ comes from Matt Aslett of 451 Research:“Data that was previously ignored because of technology…
Emerging Cloud Technologies
The cloud is an ever-changing infrastructure that is continuously being applied to different facets of life in order to provide…
Big Data Is Nothing Without Its Little Brother
We sometimes get so caught up in the hype of big data – the huge, fast moving, complex and diverse…
Is Cloud Computing Secure for Financial Services Industry?
My recent article for Seeking Alpha predicts a significant uptick in cloud adoption in financial services, thanks My recent article…
Big Data’s Big Flip-Flop
It wasn’t too long ago that many people espoused the decline, if not death, of the SQL language and relational…