Running the Boston Marathon with Real-Time Data Analytics
Today, more than 26,000 entrants from 90 countries and 50 states are competing for an $806,000 prize purse in the 115th Boston Marathon.
While the...
7 Hot Trends in Business Intelligence (An Update)
This is a guest blog post by Marcus Borba (@marcusborba), the founder of Borba Consulting, a Business Intelligence and Performance Management consultancy located in...
Gain a 360-Degree Customer View with Data Analytics
Aberdeen Research is conducting new research to show how companies are leveraging integrations between traditional customer response management (CRM) and ERP (enterprise resource planning)...
Landscape: Data Warehousing and Business Analytics
The Terrain
This landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Not so long ago, IT investment was focused on building data warehouses to store large...
Today’s Artificial Intelligence is Tomorrow’s Business Intelligence
A report in March from Manthan Systems describes how IBM’s Watson computer is a harbinger of the business intelligence model that’s rapidly taking shape,...
Google’s Think Quarterly – An Issue for Data Junkies
Like data? Like to analyze data? Overwhelmed by data? So is Google.
And they have a new cure – Think Quarterly. This new online magazine...
Google’s Think Quarterly – An Issue for Data Junkies
Like data? Like to analyze data? Overwhelmed by data? So is Google.
And they have a new cure – Think Quarterly. This new online magazine...
Risk and Decision Making Put Predictive Analytics Front And Center
In March, San Francisco hosted the 2011 Predictive Analytics World conference. Not surprisingly, one of the keynote speeches was given by Thomas Davenport, the...
4 Ways to Prevent Dirty Data From Spoiling Analytics
Change is good -- except when change means you are constantly revising and checking databases, unsure of whether records are accurate, current, complete and...
The ABCs of KPIs
A: What are they?
KPI stands for “Key Performance Indicator” and usually designates a metric providing specific information about actual performance in a mission-critical area. ...