Why IT Doesn’t “Get” Analytics (and Why the Time is Right for Change)
Over one hundred customers were online, poised to hear the webinar. Moments like this can be business magic, but they…
Defending Your Analytics: Handling Hecklers
The Nature of the Beast The trumpet sounds and the matador, dressed in gold, parades into the ring as a…
How far along are we on the path to analytics?
For readers of this blog, it's certainly no secret: Data-crunching analytics is a raging trend in business. Companies are racing…
Talk Analytics with Executives: 4 Things You Must Understand
Data analysis isn’t something you do for your own entertainment. Businesses pay for analytics to support decision-making, to provide them…
Highlights from Teradata Partners 2010
It’s a sure bet that attendees of the first Teradata User Group, navigating the Riviera Country Club’s lush 18 holes,…
Top 10 analytics mistakes
One of my favorite presenters, John Elder, presented his top 10 analytic mistakes at Teradata Partners.
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 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…
That Wall Dividing IT and Users
What more can I say about this provocative and contentious issue of a barrier wall separating IT and the business…
