First Look: Adaptive Planning Adaptive Discovery
Adaptive Planning was founded just over 10 years ago to deliver cloud financial planning solutions. They have about 1,600 customers…
Big Data is Big Business in Banking [INFOGRAPHIC]
As in any industry, also the banking industry can benefit a lot from big data and the big data technologies.…
Marketing Analytics Jobs Jump
MarketShare has witnessed firsthand how major marketing organizations are becoming more data driven, and more focused on marketing analytics, digital attribution…
Ensuring Cloud Vendor Security Transparency in the Age of Data Breaches
Gartner recently released recommendations for gaining transparency into cloud software as a service (SaaS) contracts – including emphasis on annual…
The “Avoidability” of Forecast Error [PART 2]
While I've long advocated the use of Coefficient of Variation (CV) as a quick and dirty indicator of the forecastability…
Demand for R Jobs on the Rise, While SAS Jobs Decline
Job-tracking site indeed.com shows the rate at which certain terms appear in job advertisements. As you can see from the…
Exploiting Big Data Advantages when Forming Strategic Competences
If one would have asked me to sum up the entire two years of an MBA into two words, I…
Contextomy No More
If I was to give you a date; November 9th 1989, what would that mean to you? As a date…
The “Avoidability” of Forecast Error
"Forecastability" is a frequent topic of discussion on The BFD, and an essential consideration when evaluating the effectiveness of any…
Workforce Analytics: How to Measure
Having made your first important decision about what to measure in part one of this blog series, HR ’s next…