High Density of Data Centers Correlate with Disaster Zones; Michigan Provides Safe Haven
Gigaom.com reports that the greatest amount of data centers are located, most inconveniently, in states that have also experienced the…
OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big NewsThe big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered…
The Big Deal is in the 2013 Business Analytics Research Agenda
Did you catch all the big data analogies people used in 2012? There were many, like the refinement of oil…
Who’s in Charge of Your Data?
It's Time to Have the Conversation. It's Time to Have the Conversation.In a recent article, my colleague Marjie Cota wrote…
Seven Drawbacks of Traditional OLAP
In 1993, E.F. Codd, the acknowledged founder of relational databases, introduced the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). OLAP is intended…
The Secrets to Big Data and Information Optimization Revealed in 2013 Research Agenda
Managing the access, storage and use of data effectively can provide businesses a competitive advantage. Last year I outlined what…
Three Ways to Get Your Predictive Models Deployed
We all know that given reasonable data, a good predictive modeler can build a model that works well and…
Of Black Swans and Taking Showers
Those pesky “Black Swans” – extremely low probability events with a large impact have been burned into the lexicon of…
Evaluating Cloud Performance and Decision Making
If your business has made the leap into the cloud, then it is very likely that IT processes have become…
Small Steps to Analytics Maturity!
Recently a client asked me an interesting question: How would you start analytics in an organization? This also seems to depend…