Analytics

SEO is evolving.

No industry evolves as quickly as SEO. Marketing leaders want to understand how SEO is evolving strategically and what metrics will move the needle in search. Many of the strategies and tactics that once worked are evolving, and others are being replaced all together. Here's what you need to know to succeed today.[read more]

business analysis

If you’re a business user thinking about analytics, the options can be dizzying. Where do you begin? Here is a list of 5 business analysis techniques to get you started.[read more]

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Most business users have no IT experience. They can only rely on the business spreadsheet software to complete such computing. However, the traditional business spreadsheet software is weak in calculation, which will bring about errors in the calculation process.[read more]

Tactical analytics: stay on the right path

From social media sentiment analysis to dynamic product pricing, we’re adopting more and more super-fast micro-decision systems to do what’s good “right now, right there” without much consideration for the cumulative effect over a longer period and a broader scope.[read more]

A tale of two BIs

All modern Information Technologies which are capable of improving the enterprise competitiveness fall in the scope of BI, such as ERP, CRM, Reporting tools, Data Computing, Statistical Analysis, Data Mining, OLAP, and ETL, etc. They can be divided into two categories: Desktop BI and Solution BI.[read more]

Google+ and Big Data

Data analytics and design are being integrated together with the Google+ redesign, but will it be enough for us to add another social network into our lives? Google already has a lot of your data but now they want ALL of your data in whatever form they can get it.[read more]

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Employees with technical skills are critical to enable an analytics program, but the ability to communicate, relate and navigate throughout an organization—so called “softer skills”—are especially needed to propagate analysis and communicate the impact of data-driven decision-making.[read more]

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Missing data can be a pain; having missing data and not knowing where it is can be even more of a pain. Here is a quick tip for potentially handling missing values during an ETL process, or during any data processing step, and how to quickly spot them.[read more]

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Data variety stands out from the three Vs of big data from the report of the big data survey conducted by NewVantage Partners in 2012. One of the survey results shows companies focusing more on data variety instead of data volume both now and in the next three years.[read more]

What's your data story? 

My colleagues and I had the opportunity to represent Attivio at the recent Tableau 8 Roadshow as a partner vendor. Unlike some BI events I have experienced over a number of years, the Tableau 8 Roadshow attendees were very much user-based rather than IT-focused.[read more]

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While much around big data remains hype, many companies are in the fledging stages of drawing value from their big data corpus, and given an army of discussions and opinions around the topic, it’s still hard to find a clear roadmap to arrive at the Big Promise.[read more]

BI evolution

Operational analytics is making headlines in 2013. But why is it important? And why is it more likely to succeed now than in the mid-2000s, when it was called operational BI, or the mid-1990s when it surfaced as the operational data store (ODS)? Let's see what has changed.[read more]

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I have written about few in-memory technologies and approaches in recent months, and into this space has come Teradata with its new Intelligent Memory. I would summarize the idea behind the Teradata Intelligent Memory product with three points.[read more]

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Finance departments don’t immediately come to mind in conversations about social collaboration technology. Yet business and social collaboration is an important set of capabilities that has been taking hold in business.[read more]

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One of the most discussed concerns surrounding big data today is privacy. While many powerful analytics are possible with the detailed data that is now collected on each of us, the sensitive nature of much of that data requires rethinking data practices and applications.[read more]