Moving Beyond Common SMB BI Implementation Knowledge Challenges
Recently, I attended the Enterprise Data & BI Conference Europe in London. The conference focused on many different BI and…
Gaming the Forecast
Business forecasting is a highly politicized process, subject to the biases and personal agendas of all forecasting process participants. This…
5 Ways Hadoop Can Help Healthcare Organizations and You
Unstructured data makes up about 80% of all information in the healthcare industry, and is growing faster than most people…
iBeacons, Retail and Information Overload: How Macy’s Is Kickstarting Retail’s Data Warehousing Needs
The iBeacon just got one heck of a brand evangelist for this holiday season: Macy’s. The iBeacon just got one…
Spotlight on Traitify: Who The Hell Are You, Anyway?
DataWeek/API World this past September earned my ink as an overall exceptional conference, and as a spotlight on big data company SiSense. I…
3 Ways to Adapt to the Shift Toward Online Privacy (Ethically, Nonetheless)
In May 2014, the E.U. announced that search engines were responsible for removing links deemed inadequate or irrelevant. This rule is…
IT MPG: Measuring the Value of IT Is Simple Math
As companies clamor to go digital, IT budgets are on the rise, but what exactly do we get for all…
Social Business and Digital Strategy
Social business, collaboration, community and content: is there real business value tucked away in those words? Digital transformation, digital strategy…
3 Business Questions Big Data Helps to Answer
Big data use in business is all about helping us to solve problems. It’s about using the wealth of information…
15 Companies from Airports to Retail Already Using Beacon Technology
It has been more than year since Apple announced the launch of iBeacons, and multiple competitors including Estimote, Bluecats, Bluesense…
