ROI Still Elusive for Cloud Situations: Analyst

The concept of “return on investment” — at least in the way a financial type views it — is elusive…

JoeMcKendrick
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Report Governance is Key to Consistent Business Information

Much has been written about managing an enterprise BI Program and implementing data governance. Both of these are key ingredients…

RickSherman
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The Joy of Stats: 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

If you’ve ever wished that important results from smart analytics could come to life – you will definitely envy the magic…

Teradata Aster Standardizes Access to Hadoop with SQL-H

Using Hadoop just got easier, thanks to Teradata’s introduction of SQL-H, a new query interface to analyze data from Hadoop.  Most…

Mark Smith
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BI M&A Continues with a Twist: QlikTech Acquires Expressor

QlikTech (QLIK), a leading independent business intelligence (BI) vendor, announced today it has acquired expressor

RickSherman
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Consumerization of IT, Social Business and Other Challenges; a View From Latin America

I had the pleasure of spending part of this week in Santiago de Chile with some of my colleagues from…

mfauscette
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A/B Testing Basics: What You Need to Know

Every person has varied interests and different preferences. What looks nice or acceptable to someone might not be as presentable…

Editor SDC
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Top Financial Risks of Doing Business in the Cloud

Cloud computing definitely has upside as adopters can speed delivery of analytics, gain flexibility in deployments and costs, and transfer…

paulbarsch
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Data Obesity

By David Binkley, Senior Technical Account Manager, Harte-Hanks Trillium Software

Gayle Nixon
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Rock of Ages Social Media Analysis

What initially seemed like a polarizing movie (due to its star, Tom Cruise, and musical genre) has turned into an overall very…

MichelledeHaaff
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