Celebrating the Employee
I was flying to a client this week and one of the flight attendants was on her last leg of…
You Build it, You Break It, You Fix It: Why Applications Must Be Responsible for Data Quality
When it comes to bad data, a lot of the problem stems from companies letting their developers off the…
Sneak Preview to the Universe
We have set up a new site to help you find out early on what’s new at next year’s Teradata…
Microsoft’s Dallas Copies BusinessObjects Information OnDemand
Just over two years ago, BusinessObjects launched Information OnDemand, an online store allowing you to buy information from premium providers…
Adventures in Data Profiling (Part 8)
Understanding your data is essential to using it effectively and improving its quality – and to achieve these goals, there…
Organizational change remains notoriously elusive
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) weekly poll cites John Kotter’s definitive work on leading change featured in the well known…
Some thoughts on mobile
It's the time of year when we at IDC start working on our Top Ten Predictions documents and get some…
Review Of The BI Survey 8
The BI Survey is created each year by analyst Nigel Pendse of the Business Application Research Center (BARC) headquartered in Germany. BARC was…
And now something completely different: brain simulation
Our good folks at the national labs have been developing cloud computing for two decades, so what they are doing…
Operational Analytics in a Recessionary Environment
Lately I have faced an interesting issue with large companies seeking business analytics assistance: how to provide operational predictive analytics…