Using the Close as a Finance Department Diagnostic
Earlier this year we published our Trends in Developing the Fast, Clean Close benchmark research findings. The most significant was that, on…
GoodData Rides BI in the Cloud for Business Value
GoodData has been around since 2007, but it has seen especially explosive growth in the last year due to the fast…
The Big Deal in Big Data is a Big Opportunity
Big data was big news in 2012 and probably in 2013 too. The Harvard Business Review talks about it as The…
Embracing Chaos: Big Data Could Define A New Steady State for IT
In his new book, Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan, calls “antifragile”…
Is Big Data The New Term for Business Intelligence?
The term “business intelligence” was first coined by IBM researcher Hans Luhn in 1958, and then used in its modern…
Big Data Will Get Bigger, What Do You Plan to Do?
The Internet is a treasure trove of data, an information mine literally. Unbelievably massive amounts of data are churned out…
The Nature of Big Data and the Skills of Data Scientists
The job title Data Scientist was invented by DJ Patil and Jeff Hammerbacher when they tried to name people in…
Never Underestimate the Importance of BI User Training
When I present on the topic of business intelligence failure, one theme that often comes up is inadequate user training.…
The Real Value of Big Data
HADOOP FOR BIG DATA HADOOP FOR BIG DATAAround 80% of data from “big data” is unstructured. With this massive quantity…
[eBook] The Definitive Guide to Workforce Analytics
A Practical Guide for Today's HR ProfessionalDiscover what HR leaders have always understood—that people are the most critical and important…