Christmas 2011: a Great Example of Smarter Commerce in Action
In conjunction with IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative, the SMB Group and CRM Essentials are working on a series of posts discussing…
Connecting the Dots: Misunderstood Dimensional Models
One of the debates one hears when designing a data warehouse is that it should be normalized. Specifically, they say…
Is Big Data at Risk of Unleashing Big Brother?
Privacy is always a flash point. With the advent of big data, privacy is only going to be even more…
Gathering Information on a Global Scale
The financial services industry is an ever-evolving whirlwind of information. Stock prices, trades and analyst ratings are critical components in…
MDM Goes Beyond the Data Warehouse
Enterprises are awash with data from customers, suppliers, employees and their operational systems. Most enterprises have data warehousing (DW) or…
Alberto’s Business Analytics Predictions for 2012
Alberto’s Business Analytics Predictions for 2012 2011 was a great year for business analytics across all industries. As business analytics…
How to Use Pivot Tables to Mine Your Data
To succeed at Six Sigma or any process improvement effort, you'll often have to analyze and summarize text data. Most…
The Horizon of Data Mining
A few days ago, inquiring about projection models I was faced with a question about whether these models are purely…
Revenue, Supply & Demand: Effects of the 2011 Hard Drive Shortage
The recent hard drive shortage caused by this year’s extreme Thailand floods is said to continue its major impact through…
