Handling The Big Data Faucet
Between the millions of blogs, hundreds of sources of open social information streams along with the massive number of popular…
Disease Management Programs – A Time to Revisit
The Pharma industry landscape has changed dramatically over the last 5+ years. Consider the patent cliff underway; a weak R&D pipeline for…
CI & CNBC Using Social Media Analytics to Predict Business Outcomes
Analysts were expecting big gains from Kohl’s over the holiday weekend; it’s just they didn’t mention that to their customers.…
Dashboard Gauges: Indulgence with Restraint
Tis the season of indulgence. Sometimes it is indulgence without any semblance of restraint. Case in point, the “Cherpumple” —…
Kalido Directs Data Governance
Kalido recently introduced version 9 of its Information Engine product. The company has been around for 10 years but has had difficulty…
Customer Service, the New Marketing in the Era of the Social Customer
Okay, I'm not the first person to write about this idea, but it has been on my mind lately, so…
Double Dutch – Greenplum and Teradata
In 2004, Teradata withdrew from the public TPC-H data warehousing benchmark. At the time we took a certain amount of…
Vizualize.me – Hey, someone finally got the “let’s kill all the resumes” thing right
For at least 15 years, I’ve not taken seriously the idea that a resume could be replaced. Why? Not because…
Top-Down Business Intelligence
“A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get…
Because It’s the Weekend: Small Multiples of the Sky
The stunning video below, which I recommend you play full-screen and in HD, is a time lapse of the San…