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June 20, 2013
Reporting Back from Salesforce Integration and Analytics Meetup
Salesforce Integration & Analytics meetup
At the June 5, 2013 Salesforce Integration & Analytics Meetup we had two interesting demos: Captricity, a startup integrating paper / pdf forms to the cloud, and Chartio, part of the new generation of business intelligence and analytics tools. Here are the highlights.[read more]
June 20, 2013
Rethinking Processes: What an Old Carmaker Can Teach Us About Innovation
GM (Image Source)
General Motors is a new company. That’s right—the old, hulking (and recently bankrupt) giant of American industry has the DNA of a startup. How did GM innovate their way out of bankruptcy? They retooled old manufacturing processes and gave operators a bigger role in problem-solving.[read more]
June 20, 2013
The Power of Business Collaboration Tools [INFOGRAPHIC]
Business collaboration tools on the rise
One of the most interesting changes in business over the past few years is the rise of collaboration tools within the enterprise. Companies like Microsoft, Google, IBM, SalesForce, and others (Halo BI included) are building collaboration tools directly into their software offerings.[read more]
Power Matrix: Raising Awareness About New Energy Through Gaming
With the company's dedication to sustainable energy in mind, it comes as no surprise that Siemens is raising awareness and teaching people about new forms of energy through a new, fun game called Power Matrix. It's free, it's beautiful, and it requires a bit more brainpower than FarmVille. [read more]
Bringing Big Data to a New Level: The Smart City of the Future [VIDEO]
Songdo, Smart City
In South Korea, the smart city of Songdo, the world’s first ‘City in a Box,’ will be ready in 2015: it will be a revolution in city design. Songdo will become a completely connected city, where almost any device, building or road will be equipped with wireless sensors or microchips.[read more]
Secrets and Lies: What's Your Sales Team Keeping from You? [SLIDESHARE]
Highly engaged employees generate 19% higher operating income.
Is everyone in your sales department furtively whispering in corners and closing down their screens when colleagues approach their desk? If your sales team are still tracking their pipeline and deals in spreadsheets instead of your shiny, new CRM, follow these tips to get them sharing.[read more]
Transferring Linux Skills to Your Solaris UNIX Staff: Ten Tips for CIOs
CIOs, listen up!
Migrating from Solaris to Linux can be scary. We look at everything from Linux training to hardware competition. Solaris accounts for almost half of all Non-Linux UNIX installations, but more and more organizations are abandoning it for Linux. Here are our top ten tips for making that migration run smoothly.[read more]
Business Intelligence: Is Your Firm Missing Out?
BI / shutterstock
Some leaders may be missing out on the overall benefits of BI. Simply deciding to buy a software solution isn't enough – IT executives need to develop a confident and assured plan that will guide them through the adoption process and help them become leaders in their respective fields.[read more]
Big Data Is Not Enough
Big Data growth / shutterstock
Predictive analysts usually think of doing predictive modeling on structured data pulled from a database, probably flattened into a single modeling table by a query so that the data is loadable into a software tool. We then clean the data, create features, and away we go with predictive modeling.[read more]
Data from the Quantified Self Will Impact the Future [VIDEO]
Video from Festival of Media
The data generated by all sensors will change the way we live. Here's a video discussion with three leaders in the field of human technologies, artificial intelligence and data, about the possibilities of the quantified self. It was filmed during the Festival of Media in 2013.[read more]
Big Data Benefits versus Big Risks [VIDEO]
Big Data risks
The recent revelations about the NSA’s secret program makes people aware of the world of big data and the thin line between the benefits and privacy concerns related to big data. The challenge is to get all the great benefits from big data, while finding a balance with the loss in privacy.[read more]
What Does Your Information Governance Program Look Like?
information governance / shutterstock
Information Governance, otherwise known as the collection of policies, structures and practices used to ensure the confidentiality, security and ethical use of information, is an on-going initiative for most organizations. Here's a list of the most important elements of an Information Governance (IG) program.[read more]
SAS Aligns Marketing and Customer Intelligence
SAS mobile device deployments
SAS is focusing more on business solutions built with data visualization and discovery, big data, data management, cloud computing, marketing analytics (which appears to be the new branding for customer intelligence) and enterprise decision management.[read more]
Will Google Glass Turn Big Data into Huge Data?
Google Glass (Joe Seer / Shutterstock.com)
Will Google Glass be successful? Only time will tell. When the time comes for products like this to become mainstream, it won’t only revolutionize the consumer electronics industry, but the back-end data processing and handling industry as well.[read more]
Why, What and How to Encrypt: Security Expert Insights
Not sure if your organization’s sensitive data is properly encrypted? It’s time to be sure. Chris Heuman, Practice Leader for RISC Management and Consulting, broke down the reasons why (and how) in the latest webinar hosted by Online Tech. Here's a brief summary of his presentation.[read more]
In a Big Data World, Assumptions Can Be Risky
When working with familiar data and problems, your confidence in, and the validity of, the assumptions made are probably fairly sound. But if you're doing a new type of analysis or using a data source for the first time, your assumptions may be introducing risk into your decision-making.[read more]
First Look: Via Science
Via Science
Big Math, to Via Science, is “the use of leading edge mathematics on very large supercomputing platforms to make better predictions, recommendations, and explanatory models of how the world works directly from data” and this is where they see themselves.[read more]
How Big Data and Statistical Modeling Are Changing Video Games [WEBINAR REPLAY]
Big Data & video games
Bill Grosso presented a fascinating webinar about the video gaming industry yesterday: "Knowing How People Are Playing Your Game Gives You the Winning Hand." Here's the replay — don't miss the Q&A section at the end where Bill revealed some of his favorite R packages and books.[read more]
How Big Data Is Shrinking Our World [VIDEO]
Dr. Kirk Borne, data scientist
Dr. Kirk Borne, a Multidisciplinary Data Scientist and Astrophysicist, gave a TEDx talk at George Mason University recently, about how big data will help us discover Novelties, Classes and Associations. The common ‘rule’ of the six degrees of separation is shrinking due to big data.[read more]
How Big Data Analytics Reveal Your Most Intimate Secrets
Big Data Analytics: what do your Likes reveal?
Big Data Analytics allow us to automatically analyze digital records such as our updates, photos and ‘Likes’ on Facebook. But did you know that your 'Likes' on Facebook could expose intimate details about you as well as personality traits you might not want to share with anyone?[read more]
Analytical Maturity Is Not Universal
BI: bigger is not always better / shutterstock
A myth that has haunted BI software for years is that bigger is always better. If firms find a solution they are comfortable with, it can become an integral part of their processes for a significant amount of time. Buying tons of software or going on an analyst hiring spree just depletes the corporate coffers.[read more]
Big Data Ethics: Vendors Should Take A Stand
Tip of the Big Data iceberg
We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg when it comes to “big data analytics.” We can now gather, correlate, and analyze information in ways that were unthinkable in the past. However, with great power comes great responsibility. Analytics is a very powerful weapon, and weapons can be abused.[read more]
Planview Improves Long-Range Planning Potential
long-range planning / shutterstock
Competence in long-range planning is vital to the success of any business. Especially for corporations that now use spreadsheets to manage their long-range planning, I recommend they look at Planview Enterprise as an alternative to support a more effective long-range planning process.[read more]
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“As usual, Dean, I agree on all counts. This is piece that everyone leaves out ... Feature creation. CRISP-DM refers to it as Data Augmentation. There is simply no 'auto' Modeling technique, yet, does it. Even though feature reduction is no picnic, it is easier than feature augmentation. Once you have done all of that the Modeling is perhaps the easiest step. I think for most of us it is the most ...”
“Very interesting article. I wodered if some of the things that I "like" might seem random but you point out that it actually helps add detail to a more complex profile. Will this give me pause in "liking" things?The reason why I "like" things is to show approval of the perosn who posted the content. This article isn't likely to alter that behavior but it's good to know.One reason why I do resist ...”