Hacking the Budget
What’s the one thing every Finance person complains about if their organization uses Excel for budgeting? That users break links…
Mok Oh’s New Big Data Venture
Where’s the value in big data? Marcel Proust believed he could regain time lost through his writing, using art to overcome the…
Building a Private Cloud: A Strategic Guide
With the advent of cloud computing, companies are trapped with their desire to adopt the flexible and scalable model without…
Data Integration Ecosystem for Big Data and Analytics
In my article, “Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics,” I detailed a five step process to transition…
MicroStrategy Raises the Ante on Mobile, Social and Cloud Innovation
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has a keen sense of where things are headed. He sees mobile and social as the…
IBM to Acquire Star Analytics for Financial Data Integration
IBM this week announced its pending acquisition of the Star Analytics product portfolio. Star Analytics is a privately held company that offers…
Forecasting Is Harder Than It Looks
Want to make weather forecasting look good? Want to make weather forecasting look good? Compare it to predicting the economy. So…
Big Analytics Rather Than Big Data
The past year has been dominated by Big Data. What it might mean and the way you might look at…
See the Future with Your CRM
We know that you’d like to see growth and improve your sales forecasting processes, and with the right CRM solution, you…
Big Data Scientists Are Bridge Builders
Kathryn Kelly recently put up an excellent post titled Data Scientists Not Required: Big Data Is About Business Users. I commented…