A Better Way to Fuel Analytical Needs
We have reached a tipping point sometime in the last few years when analytics is being driven by business people…
Upcoming Webinar: Real-time, Big-data Analytics
A quick heads-up that I'll be presenting another brand-new webinar on Thursday next week (November 29). In Real-time Big Data Analytics:…
The Coming Shortage of Analytic Skills
A study by Avendus Capital published recently points out skill shortage in global analytics business. According to this study, by…
Tableau Thrives in Providing Visual Discovery for Business Analytics
Tableau Software is growing fast. Tableau has taken a “land and expand” strategy that drives what they call the democratization of…
Great Visualization of One Hour of Carbon Emissions in NYC….
Great visualization of one hour of carbon emissions in NYC. Background, here. Why this matters, here. Great visualization of one…
Quill Brings a Narrative of Insights to Business Analytics
Business analytics has become the highest ranked technology innovation, according to our benchmark research on business technology innovati Business analytics has become…
Benchmarks Can Reveal the Finance Department’s Achilles Heel
Data published in a recent infographic (www.tagetik.com/infographic) based on survey information compiled by APQC shows that the cost of finance…
2012 Presidential Elections Popular Vote
The following chart is a good example of displaying diverging data using color. We set “50%” as the neutral point…
Data Transfer From Legacy to the Cloud
The transformation to the cloud is taking everything – and everyone — by storm. In spite of the earlier security…
Social Media Stupidity in the Technology Industry
If you follow my writing, you’ve seen blog posts with titles such as Industry Exposé: Technology Vendors Skew Analysts and…