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A Question of Scope
The scope of a data management initiative is influenced by 3 factors: Reference Architecture, Source Data Requirements, Target Dimensional Breakdown... [read more]
SumTotal Systems Sums Up Human Capital Management
Despite some areas for improvements, SumTotal Systems is a vendor to reckon with in the market for human capital management. The company has a significant opportunity to be a strategic supplier to not just HR but to CFOs and heads of business that realize that applications and information about their workforce complement the activities within the business processes, since they reveal who the right engaged and skilled people are in the effort to achieve business objectives. [read more]
Facebook’s Response to Yahoo’s Patent Lawsuit
Countersuing gives Facebook the best chance of fending off Yahoo’s lawsuit – and therefore not rewarding patent lawsuits. And signaling they are only doing so in response to Yahoo (hence might drop the suit if Yahoo does) keeps them on the right side of innovation. [read more]
Tips for Developing a Super HR Analytics Team
Traditionally, the human resources department has not been viewed as part of a revenue center and the use of analytics has been extremely limited. That’s because, typically, the HR department simply generates reports without providing insight or understanding. In other words, the reports are devoid of measurements, predictive models, scorecards, benchmark comparisons and key performance indicators (KPIs). [read more]
CIOs Focusing Less on Infrastructure, More on Innovation
"Still, most CIOs can't just yank out their existing IT infrastructures and move to the cloud. Optimizing legacy infrastructure while freeing up funding for more strategic initiatives is a key challenge for CIOs. When Constellation Research published a report listing four personas CIOs would need to master — chief infrastructure officer, chief intelligence officer, chief integration officer and chief innovation officer — Constellation CEO Ray Wang noted infrastructure still commands the lion's share of the budget, 65 percent to 70 percent." [read more]
Microsoft Focuses Big Data Efforts on Hadoop
"Microsoft announced that it would not be moving forward with a production release of LINQ to HPC, something that was an alternative distributed Big Data platform. Codenamed Dryad, LINQ to HPC would have been Microsoft’s proprietary alternative to Hadoop, designed to run Big Data jobs on clusters of Windows servers. Instead, they are focusing their efforts on developing Hadoop distributions for Windows Servers and Azure" [read more]
Analytics-Driven Companies See Competitive Advantage: IBM-MIT Study
"In recent years, there have been a lot of anecdotal accounts of analytics making a positive impact on business growth — and now a new study of 4,500 executives provides some data points to back this up." [read more]
Master Data Management: Does an Effective Solution Exist?
"Organisations are spending very large amounts of money on their Master Management programmes and they want to ensure their investment is sound. However, in most large organisations, managing master data is a very complex problem that technology alone will not solve." [read more]
Business, IT Must Meet Half Way to Form Partnership
Given the focus of this blog, I was quite interested in a CFO.com article titled Your CIO, Your Problem, which is presented a way for the CFO to get to know his or her CIO better for a stronger working relationship. It's interesting to see, given the sometimes tenuous relationship between the two business functions. I've written about... [read more]
Biggest Collaboration Challenge: Making It Central to Workflow
"Writing on her Beyond the Cube blog, Laurie Buczek, who identifies herself as an enterprise marketing manager for a Fortune 100 company (Intel, according to her LinkedIn profile), discusses her decision to return to external marketing after two-and-a-half years in a role that involved introducing social technologies to improve internal collaboration." [read more]
IT: Do You Want to Sell Sugar Water or Do You Want to Change the World?
“Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life or come with me and change the world?” – Steve Jobs I sometimes wish that instead of working on internet and software projects, I worked on cleantech or biotech projects. That way, when I came home at night, I’d know that I had literally spent my day trying to cure cancer or... [read more]
Aiding an Analytics Enthusiast
In my last blog, I wrote about the pitfalls of allowing “Bob The Marketing Guy” to build complex analytics or models using a user friendly tool, when he doesn’t really know what he is doing. Well, we cannot just tell Bob he can’t do analytics. We have to provide him with a solution to his needs. So, how do we help Bob help himself? [read more]
LinkedIn and Hiring: Dream. Fit. Passion.
A few days ago, our CEO Jeff Weiner led a session at LinkedIn on how to “close” candidates — that is, how to persuade candidates to join your team once you have found and interviewed them. Since not everyone has the opportunity to work at LinkedIn and experience Jeff’s leadership first-hand, I thought I’d share some of his wisdom here.... [read more]
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BI and Car Wrecks
"This is the 120th anniversary of an amazing event: the very first automobile accident....Of course, wrecking cars is just a lead-in to argue that large companies often wrestle away good ideas from innovators and stomp the life out of them." [read more]
Who is Your Real Customer: IT or the Business?
"While much has been said about closing the gap between the business and IT, not much has been said about creating a marketing message that does so. As proof, I’m writing a white paper right now, geared ONLY to the IT reader that addresses only architecture, data, and security topics. The goal is to get IT on board with a product that the business already wants or even has." [read more]
Maximizing the Value of On-demand Business Intelligence for Small and Medium Enterprises
"Small to medium enterprises (SMEs) are just as concerned with maximizing the value of their data as large enterprises. This webinar will explore the business and technology trends that have made BI accessible to SMEs." [read more]
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“Hi Farnaz,I think the graph type shown in your article is a scatterplot, not a bubble plot. And scatterplots are not an invention of the 'Big Data' age. In fact, they were invented way back in 1833 by Sir John Frederick W. Herschel.It's tough to get an exact definition of Bubble Plot, but when I think of the differences between Bubble and Scatter, I think of aggregation levels. Bubble plots ...”
“David, I'm not so sure that the judge had ruled that the API's are copyrightable. You write, "where it was decided that Google's re-implementation of Java APIs in the Android OS did infringe Oracle's copyright." As of this morning on Friday, May 11th, Judge Alsup has not ruled on that issue.See Grocklaw at: Oracle's Denied Motion For JMOL on Fair Use, as ...”