Alteryx Advances the Process of Customer Analytics
The market for customer analytics continues to grow as organizations realize the current competencies and technology are not aligned to…
Using Data for K-12 Education
When 44 Atlanta schools were implicated in a standardized test cheating scandal in 2011, “data” quickly became the vocabulary word…
Embedding Predictive Analytics in Your Software Product
Everyone knows that enterprise software is an intensely competitive business. Today “Big Data” and “Analytics” are two of the hottest topics…
Big Data and Analytics Must Be Properly Matched
Those who have any reasonable familiarity with the modern tech sector will fully understand the difference between big data and…
B2B Software Startups: The SaaS Platform Dilemma
SaaS has considerably reduced B2B software development costs. Think about ten years ago and the products and services you had…
Rent vs. Buy? The Cloud Conundrum
Over the long-run, is cloud computing a waste of money? Some startups and other “asset lite” businesses seem to think…
What Really Is Big Data? And Why It Will Change the World
Big Data is THE biggest buzzword around at the moment, and I guess it makes sense to start my new…
First Look: Datameer
As part of an ongoing expansion of our ecosystem mapping to include more Hadoop-based products I recently got an update…
First Look: SAP Predictive Analytics Update
I got an update from SAP on their Predictive Analytics products. Back in December I got a briefing on the…
How M2M Data Will Dominate the Big Data Era
Machine-to-Machine data is likely to increase drastically in the coming years. More and more applications are being equipped with sensors…