Cloud computing definitely has upside as adopters can speed delivery of analytics, gain flexibility in deployments and costs, and transfer…
In today’s lean, just-in-time, and over optimized world, it’s not uncommon for executives roll their eyes when the term “Black…
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The freight train of cloud computing has left the station and is on an exponential growth tear. But just like…
Bigger is better – is a phrase that’s widely assumed to be self-evident. However, whether it is cruise ships capsizing,…
A recent analyst report suggests public clouds are prone to failure because they are inherently complex. However, just because there…
With the official death toll at eleven and plenty more persons missing in the Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster, reports…
Visa’s command and control center—somewhere on the east coast of the United States—is a case study in redundancy with intense…
To protect against wild currency swings or volatile commodity costs, one surefire strategy employed by senior managers is hedging risk…
Every good business manager loves metrics. After all, the old adage, “You can't manage what you don't measure” still holds…
The above diagram was compiled by Florence Nightingale, who was – according to The Font – “a celebrated English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of…
At a time in our history when there is more data than ever before, the overwhelming majority of companies ...
Money Out the Window It’s scary to think about the dollars involved, but with over 70% of Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing projects failing it is surprising…
I always make the point that data is everywhere – and that a lot of it is free.
The internet and ecommerce world offers endless possibilities to use customer analytics and big data ..
