A New Equation Equals a New Approach
An integration provider, when viewed from a customer perspective, should look very attractive—and not just because of its middleware infrastructure. What should also attract...
Analytics To Understand How Social Media Affects Customer Buying
The majority of businesses today have some sort of social media presence. In fact, 77% of Fortune 500 companies have active Twitter accounts (up...
Analytics Maturity, Stage 4: Operationalize Across the Enterprise
In a previous post, we described how the third stage of the Analytics Maturity Model, “Predict & Optimize,” allows organizations to plan for the...
DevOps Makes IT Easy
We operate in a world where the pace of change is so great that many IT organizations are finding it difficult to keep up...
Why Fresh Is Always Better Than Pre-Packaged
As data streams into firms at an ever-increasing rate, the days of relying on static graphs and charts to guide decisions are dwindling.
Instead, companies...
3 Surprising Ways Data Visualization Streamlines Your Business
The human brain processes visuals faster than text. For your business, this means that data visualization is the best way to interactively explore data...
Making IT Data Discovery Heroes
Data discovery has been portrayed as getting around IT, its structures, and delays.
But Gartner says we need greater governance now that data discovery systems...
With CRM Data, More Isn’t Always Better
One of the inherent challenges that many business leaders face with using customer relationship management (CRM) systems is that customer data is often duplicated...
Crack the Code to Secure File Sharing
In today’s world, data is collected about everyone. Whether it is installing cookies on your system when you search a web page, or viewing...
Call In Your Special Forces—DevOps
Businesses are always looking for a competitive advantage. It’s the nature of the beast, and really, the only way to move ahead of your...