Data Integration Ecosystem for Big Data and Analytics
In my article, “Data Integration Roadmap to Support Big Data and Analytics,” I detailed a five step process to transition…
Sticking vs Backsliding – It Is So Sad
Have you ever been frustrated by witnessing a good decision be reversed and falling back to old ways of doing…
The Driving Force Behind Big Data: Data Connectivity
In most organizations, stakeholders maintain the perspective that Big Data offers tremendous benefits to the enterprise, especially when it comes…
What Obama Didn’t Say About Big Data…
By now, I trust that many of you have read all there is to read about last night’s debate between…
Data is Cool Again
The arrival of "big data" has rejuvenated an industry that had lost its cool. Database connectivity and management software has…
5 Data Analytics Tools You Need for Marketing
In O’Reilly Media's book “Beautiful Data,” the authors suggest that few things are more powerful than today’s data metrics tools.…
Protecting Public Data
Public data, the data that government makes available to the public, is at risk. Wait a minute, what about all…
Ending the American Community Survey: Privacy is Not the Issue – by Virginia Carlson
How do we as a nation know who we are, what areas are prospering, who is in trouble, where we…
5 Rules for Better Sales Analytics
Sales performance isn’t just about sales numbers and sales activities. Sure, trends in sales success are deeply tied to sales…
Open Data: What’s It Hiding?
Let’s get this straight – I’m all for open data. Yet the fanfare about open data is taking up so…
