Managing Details in Long-Range Planning
Ventana Research recently completed an in-depth benchmark research project on long-range planning. As I define it, long-range planning is the formal quantification…
Technology Project Nightmares
From scope creep to sales creep, technology project fears that will make you screamIt’s a scary notion, beginning a new…
Managing Unstructured Data: The Next BI Point of Emphasis
Managing vast amounts of data within internal systems has always been a challenge. But with the rise of the cloud,…
Can We Automate Data Mining?
That’s a big question! Back in 2006, we started the discussion on Data Mining Research, with the post about the…
Business Intelligence: The Importance of Time to Value
The BI market place is flooded with messaging from vendors saying they can provide analytical platforms and access to information…
Big Data, All Data, PureData, BLU Data
For some time now, when it comes to big data, my mantra has been "big data is simply all data". …
Big Data, Big Hype, Big Danger
A remarkable thing happened in Big Data last week. One of Big Data’s best friends poked fun at one of…
The Big Data Security Transformation
For those of us in the security profession it an extremely exciting but also daunting time. The number and aggressiveness…
Mad Lib Your Way to Purposeful Visualizations
Good data communication hinges on picking right chart. The patterns and insights almost magically emerge when you choose a chart…
With Big Data, Smaller Can Be Better: Find the “Gems”
Big data analytics was like the new popular kid on the block in 2012, rapidly rising to become the must-have…