10 Don’ts for Delivering Mobile Business Intelligence
With all the major vendors and analyst firms espousing the growing importance of Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) and touting its…
The Future of BI in Two Words
What’s the future of BI? Last fall, one sharp source of mine answered, “Two words: Tableau and QlikView. You didn’t…
Data Design Principles
Obey the principles without being bound by them.- Bruce Lee Taking a practical approach to developing a well-formed enterprise data warehouse…
Using Sales Intelligence to Boost Revenue
It’s becoming increasingly difficult for businesses to make accurate forecasts about what might happen six months from now. We’re living…
Infographics Get Pinned on Pinterest
If you haven’t given much thought (yet) to Pinterest, that’s not surprising.Although the three-year-old social media site has become wildly…
Revealing Human Nature through Social Media Measurement
The Atlantic Ocean contains 100 billion, billion gallons of water and "if each gallon of water represented a byte or…
Big Data Q&A for the Data Protection Law and Policy Newsletter
I have been given permission to re-publish an interview I did with the Data Protection & Law Policy newsletter. Also…
Simple Tools for Building a Recommendation Engine
Revolution’s resident economist, Saar Golde, is very fond of saying that “90% of what you might from a recommendation engine…
Are You Asking the Right Questions with Predictive Analytics?
Predictive analytics can help companies forecast business results with stunning accuracy – for example, how a particular group of customers might…
When Do You need All the Data for Big Analytics?
In the 2012 edition of the SAP Sybase Capital Markets Guide, Revolution Analytics' Senior Advisor for Products and Strategy (and former…


