OLTP meets OLAP, BI Conferences, Sybase Who? And Other News
The Big NewsThe big news over the last week has been, of course, the release of SAP Business Suite Powered…
The Big Deal is in the 2013 Business Analytics Research Agenda
Did you catch all the big data analogies people used in 2012? There were many, like the refinement of oil…
Seven Drawbacks of Traditional OLAP
In 1993, E.F. Codd, the acknowledged founder of relational databases, introduced the term Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). OLAP is intended…
The Secrets to Big Data and Information Optimization Revealed in 2013 Research Agenda
Managing the access, storage and use of data effectively can provide businesses a competitive advantage. Last year I outlined what…
Three Ways to Get Your Predictive Models Deployed
We all know that given reasonable data, a good predictive modeler can build a model that works well and…
Small Steps to Analytics Maturity!
Recently a client asked me an interesting question: How would you start analytics in an organization? This also seems to depend…
The Business of Sales and Marketing – Our Research Agenda for 2013
Most organizations see improving the effectiveness of sales as a way to increase productivity. Those organizations that take advantage of…
Think Outside the Box, But Design Within the Framework
As a UX designer I used to get frustrated when I had the feeling my designs didn’t really get built…
Roman Stanek on Big Data, Small Screen
Guest Post by Roman StanekBig Data and Mobile Apps Are Converging in the Enterprise Guest Post by Roman StanekBig Data and Mobile…
Google Now and Big Data
Few companies manage information better than Google. If there were an annual award for corporate information management (IM), I’m sure…