Using Analytics to Prioritize Spending on Cybersecurity
Spending on cybersecurity is expected to rise this year as a growing number of organizations shift spending from defensive-minded approaches to detection and mitigation...
Survival of the Fittest
For a long time, application and data integration were considered specialty disciplines best handled centrally by the same IT teams responsible for development, implementation,...
Improving Boardroom Communication With Data Visualization
There are multiple factors that can impact revenue and earnings growth, including changes in the cost of goods, product demand, and variable and fixed...
Why Big Data is the New Black in Entertainment
Programs such as "Orange is the New Black" and "House of Cards" from Netflix have come together in large part because of the media...
Analytics to Drive Customer Satisfaction, Boost Revenue
Companies that use analytics to bolster their customer service operations realize better results when it comes to customer satisfaction, operational efficiency and financial performance...
How Agile BI Improves Your Company’s Responsiveness to Change
Seventy percent of the companies that were listed on the Fortune 1000 just 10 years ago have disappeared.
The reason?
They’re victims of change – casualties...
In-Memory Computing and Event Processing: You Got Your Chocolate in My Peanut Butter
Recently I sat down with Massimo Pezzini, vice president and fellow at Gartner, to discuss event processing. Pezzini specializes in in-memory computing, so—not surprisingly—the...
CPGs, Retailers Maximize Data to Strengthen Category Management Execution
Category management is a collaborative, continuous process between consumer packaged goods (CPG) manufacturers and retailers to identify, analyze, and manage a consumer’s “need state,”...
Harnessing Data to Craft an Unbeatable World Cup Strategy
After an entire month of collective cheering (and agonizing), billions around the globe are now eagerly anticipating the 2014 FIFA World Cup final on...
Big Data to Stem Fraud, Boost Compliance
As the volume and variety of data and date sources have grown, so has the potential for companies to step up their compliance and...