The Amazon Effect: Zuora, Citrix and the Acceleration of the Cloud Economy
When Amazon started making their infrastructure and IT processes available outside the company firewall in 2006 it was a tipping…
Developing Change Management for BI
One of the things I struggle with is change management for business intelligence. One of the toughest things to explain…
Has ‘cloud computing’ become a redundant phrase?
My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Pedrick, probably would have a field day with her red pen if she ever read…
The New Way to Segment For a 6x Greater Return
I have been thinking about this for some time (BTW, this is a short post – hope to ignite some…
The Netflix Prize, Occam’s Razor and PMML
I just finished reading an excellent posting on the Netflix Tech Blog by Xavier Amatriain and Justin Basilico. Entitled "Netflix…
How BI & Data Analytics Pros Used Twitter – Meet the Boulder BI Brain Trust
We have a special edition of our Twitter recap for you this month on the Spotfire blog. Today, we’ll introduce…
Case Study: Social Media Action and Response at StubHub
As we all know, bad news has a way of proliferating through the social Web like no other medium.
Case Study: Using Social Media and Text Analytics to Improve the Neiman Marcus Customer Experience
Neiman Marcus is synonymous with luxury specialty retail goods and without question, cater to a discriminating demographic.
Yes, you need more than just R for Big Data Analytics.
Douglas Merrill, former CIO/VP of Engineering at Google, writes in Forbes about using the R language for data analysis:Most folks with…
Big Data’s impact on Human Resources
Big Data is fast becoming a vital component of the modern HR toolkit and the advantages go far beyond the…
