Right Time Business Optimization
Mike Ferguson presented on Right Time Business Optimization using on-demand and event-driven analytics at the Teradata Partners conference. Business optimization,…
Teradata Active Enterprise Update
Quick update from Teradata to kick off the day focused on Active Enterprise Intelligence. This remains a key theme for…
The Data Quality of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a 19th century novel written by Oscar Wilde, which told the story of a…
Parents and kids: Missives and feeds
When I went away to college, I tried to write my parents a letter every week. This letter was a…
Data Quality Industry: Problem Solvers or Enablers?
This morning I had the following Twitter conversation with Andy Bitterer of Gartner Research and ANALYSTerical, sparked by my previous…
The three legged stool – business, analytics, IT
I was inspired to write something this week on the need to get people to collaborate by a post Jim…
Data Quality Magic
In previous posts I explained that, at least in regards to data quality, there are no magic beans, tooth fairies,…
Auto-correlation for time series analysis
Recently, I was reading the EPFL magazine and was surprised to see an article where they interviewed my master thesis…
Truly Distributed Analytics
The growth and success of Hadoop is very interesting. It is emerging as a highly significant technology for the data…