Oracle Takes Endeca – a War of Acquisition?
I believe it was Forrester Research who coined the phrase "Unified Information Access (UIA)" back in a 2008 publication as…
In Bringing Gold to Customers, Teradata Earns a Platinum
Last week Teradata received the highest honor, the Platinum Award, from Gaming & Leisure magazine as part of the G&L…
Survey Shows Business Intelligence Wants and Struggles of SMBs
While dashboards and reporting continue to be critical elements driving adoption of business intelligence (BI) among small to medium-sized businesses…
Teradata: All in the Family of Appliances and Big Data
Teradata recently held its Partners User Group meeting (Twitter hashtag #TDPUG11) in San Diego.
Your Statistical Result is Below .05: Now What?
When you get a statistical result, one too often immediately jumps to the conclusion that the finding “is statistically significant”…
Find Value in Online/Social Text and Sentiment: Free Report, Conferences
This is a quick entry to tell you about three things --- My free report, "Text/Content Analytics 2011: User Perspectives…
Analysts As Rock Stars? Don’t Be A One Hit Wonder!
What a change a few decades makes! When first starting my career as an analyst, I had no illusions about…
The Human Factor Continually Confounds Probability Models
With four weeks to go in the 2011 Major League Baseball season, the probability of the Boston Red Sox of…
There’s a Lot to Like about R
I once heard John Chambers (the inventor of the S language, and member of the R Core Group) say, "Show…