Improving Data Integration the Old Fashioned Way
IT organizations have spent enormous sums of money over the past 10-15 years attacking productivity. They’ve acquiring data integration tools,…
SAP Goes Social
It's turning into a big news week for enterprise social network (ESN) software, first Yammer's 1st user conference, YamJam12, and…
Big Data For Big Weather
Courtesy of hint.fm/wind Courtesy of hint.fm/windThe east coast is slowly recovering from the devastating impact of hurricane Sandy and we…
Yo-Yo Ma, Social Scientist
What can we learn from a cello player?By Roger WoodFounder (ART+DATA) Institute Traditional Chinese: 马友友 What can we learn from a…
Using Your Human Database to Select a Database
I had the pleasure of speaking with veteran data architecture expert, and Soliber.net columnist, Tcat Houser. I reached out to…
Advice for the Aspiring Data Scientist
It’s been well-documented throughout the blogosphere over the past few weeks, but every time I read it, I’m still a…
Analytics is Sexy: Let’s Make It Work!
I wrote earlier about this huge gap between talking about analytics and being able to actually make a large impact…
How to Achieve Equilibrium Between Business Users and IT
A geochemist named James Lovelock once theorized that a fundamental characteristic of all life is not just the need to…
Are You Reporting What You Can?…Or What You Should?
Too many organizations are missing opportunities to use their data and analytics as a competitive advantage. Often leaders believe that…
Data Governance: Managing Data as an Asset
I always find it interesting when people pile onto the company’s latest and most popular project or initiative. People love…
