Forget Big Data, We Need Smart Data [VIDEO]
Welcome to season two of BI.TV – your vendor agnostic fortnightly recap of global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics news, views…
A Complete Guide to Overcoming Executives’ Concerns about Hadoop
CEOs are often critical of adopting new technology, and for good reason. New technology is expensive and all too often…
Defining Business Intelligence 3.0
So what exactly is Business Intelligence 3.0? Is it a mass of meaningless marketing messages, a collection of multiple BI…
How Big Data Centers Impact the Environment [INFOGRAPHIC]
Big Data requires massive data centres to store all the data that we collectively generate. These data centres require a…
The Case for Using Data Virtualization for Big Data Analytics
Big data has become an integral part of the business world as more and more companies learn to utilize technologies…
NICE Delivers Customer Interactions with Next Generation Workforce Optimization
In my research of NICE Systems for several years I have remarked often that its biggest challenge is to integrate…
The Great Analytical Divide: Data Scientist vs. Value Architect
In the analytics space, it is quite common for many organizations to have a team of data miners who are…
Cloudera Makes Hadoop a Big Player in Big Data
I had the pleasure of attending Cloudera’s recent analyst summit. Presenters reviewed the work the company has done since its…
A Data-Centric Approach Will Lead To Customer Centricity
A few years ago, with the rise of social media, many organisations thought that social media was the Holy Grail…
How Text Mining Can Help Your Business Dig For Gold
Your customers want to communicate with you. Your partners, employees, potential clients, competitors, press and social media influencers want to…