Big Data and Crowdsourcing in Humanitarian Crisis Mapping
Last Thursday, I attended a webinar that was called Monitoring Humanitarian Crises in the Digital Age: Crisis Mapping, Crowdsourcing, and Satellite…
The Principles of Enterprise Technology
By BobGourley“Consider a principle as a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a…
Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics
Traditional extract, transform and load (ETL) has existed since the times when data warehousing evolved to help move data from…
Using the Close as a Finance Department Diagnostic
Earlier this year we published our Trends in Developing the Fast, Clean Close benchmark research findings. The most significant was that, on…
The Big Deal in Big Data is a Big Opportunity
Big data was big news in 2012 and probably in 2013 too. The Harvard Business Review talks about it as The…
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Key Supporting Technologies
I recently started a series of blog posts on what CEOs (and for that matter, all senior corporate executives) need…
3 Simple Checks to Do Before Expanding Your Data Team
If you’re the leader of a Data Team, chances are your clients are constantly demanding more and more services as…
Big Data and Analytics – Suggestions to Approach
There has always been an opportunity to create big data. There have also always been opportunities for prediction based analytics…
Business Analytics – Close to Your Heart
Well, perhaps not close to your heart, but certainly close to the heartbeat of your business. This is a key…
Big Data is Puzzling!
The three Vs — volume, velocity and variety — are the essential characteristics of big data. But isn’t it amazing…
