Notes from Tableau Roadshow: Every Picture Tells a (Data) Story
My colleagues and I had the opportunity to represent Attivio at the recent Tableau Roadshow as a partner vendor. Unlike…
The Road to Operational Analytics
Operational analytics is making headlines in 2013. But why is it important? And why is it more likely to succeed…
Real-Time Access to SaaS Data
IntroductionData stored in SaaS applications is often inaccessible to BI tools. This is a major headache to early adopters of…
Hadoop Toolbox: When to Use What
Eight years ago not even Doug Cutting would have thought that the tool which he's naming after his kid's soft toy would…
Data by the Book: You Don’t Know What You’ve Got Until It’s Gone
Big data, with all of its vastness and mystery – and confusion – is actually a remarkably straightforward concept: store…
The Enterprise Brain
In his 1938 collection of essays, World Brain, H. G. Wells explained that “it is not the amount of knowledge that…
Key to Business Intelligence Success: Data Accuracy and Visibility
By now, most decision-makers have probably heard some success stories regarding business intelligence (BI) – how one company used it to cut costs,…
Big Data and Rise of Predictive Analytics
Back in mid 1990s, when I was a Ph.D. student, one of the professors asked me what my career goal…
Business Intelligence Maturity Assessment: Data Visualization and Data Strategy Services
How do you assess the overall health and maturity of your Business Intelligence initiative? Big Data Analytics has recently received…
Big Data and the Wizard of Oz Syndrome
An excellent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Big Data, Big Blunders,” discussed five An excellent article in the Wall…
