From Operations to Insights: Business Analytics Meets NoSQL
Many people love NoSQL databases because they can throw their data into them without a care (almost) and let the…
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…
Enterprise Risk Management and EPM – Separate or Joined at the Hip?
Enter Enterprise risk management (ERM) and enterprise performance management (EPM) are often discussed as separate topics. But when you think…
Big Data Grows Up at Strata+Hadoop World 2016
I recently spent time at Strata+Hadoop World 2016 in New York. I attended this event and its predecessor, Hadoop World,…
Oracle Goes All In On Cloud
I recently attended Oracle OpenWorld for the first time in several years. The message at this year’s event was clear:…
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…
Dreamforce 2016 – Post One
As I’m headed into another Dreamforce event I plan to keep you updated on the happenings this week. As usual,…
