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 software.QlikTech, with over $300 million…
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…
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…
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…
Data Obesity
By David Binkley, Senior Technical Account Manager, Harte-Hanks Trillium SoftwareRecently, by chance, I happened to view a Mary Meeker slide…
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…
Information Cascades, Revisited
A couple of years ago, I blogged about an information cascade problem I’d read about in David Easley and Jon Kleinberg‘s textbook on Networks,…
How to Define Big Data
“Big data” is a popular term these days – it seems to pop up everywhere. But do people mean the…
Benefits of Using Data to Make Decisions: Guest Post by Erin Palmer
Today’s guest post is written by Erin Palmer from University Alliance. Thanks Erin for sharing your knowledge in the field…
New Generation of Big-Data Analytics with 1010data
At first I thought 1010data just developed a faster data warehouse technology to be used with business intelligence tools. After a recent…
