Big Data for Personal Use Is More Popular Than Ever
By Ana Andreescu, Senior Director of Marketing at GoodDataHow many hours of sleep did you get last night? Did you stick…
Data-Driven BPM: Making “Big Data” Actionable
Conversation about “big data” often leads to more questions than answers. Where does big data begin and end? Business Intelligence,…
Socialytics: Social Analytics Earns Its Portmanteau
When an idea goes viral, it becomes a meme, and when two memes are associated for long enough to be…
Multi-Tenant vs. Hosted Cloud ERP: Pros and Cons
There is a general consensus that, by 2023, most of the installed MFG ERP systems will be cloud-based. But will…
Demystifying Hadoop: Not All Problems Are Hadoop-able
When you hear about Big Data, Hadoop hype follows almost automatically. But people often ask me what Hadoop actually does.…
O Knowledge Graph, Where Art Thou?
The web search community, in recent months and years, has heard quite a bit about the 'knowledge graph.' The basic…
The Computing Deployment Phase
Technological revolutions happen in two main phases: the installation phase and the deployment phase. Here’s a chart (from this excellent book by…
Using Geographic Data
Most organizations collect and maintain some type of geographic data, yet many ignore this data during analysis. Any business has…
Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer on Data Portabilty
“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”–Nelson Mandela “Where you stand depends on where you sit.”–Nelson MandelaSpeaking at the…
Hadoop to Be Pervasive By 2015
Gartner projects that by 2015, 65% of packaged analytic applications with advanced analytics will come with Hadoop embedded. Sounds rational,…
