Will Predictive Analytics and POS Save Small Retailers from Extinction?
Global brick-and-mortar retailers are struggling to compete against their digital rivals. Smaller retailers have been suffering the most, because they…
After 31 Years of Spreadsheets, It’s Time to Move On
The spreadsheet isn’t going away anytime soon. But the reliance on it as a standalone tool is waning, as the…
Big Data Pitfalls That Undermine Marketing Automation Goals
According to the Lenskold Group’s 2013 Lead Generation Marketing Effectiveness Study, 49% of businesses use marketing automation. Marketing automation allows…
The Benefits of Semantic-Based Data Modeling in the Smart Data Lake Era
The driving force behind enterprise data analytics today is obtaining valuable insights more quickly from large, diverse data sets. A…
The New Mainstream Appeal of Apache Spark
It wasn’t too long ago that big data was thought of as a niche concept, something reserved for only those…
Managing Data Tasks with Robotic Process Automation
Analysts predict that by 2020, Robotic Process Automation solutions will see a compounded annual growth rate of 60.5 percent. Employers…
