To get the most from predictive analytics, encourage collaboration between data and business departments and cultivate hybrid employees who are part analyst, part decision maker.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    How do you balance the need for dependable data with the need for decision speed?  Take these three steps.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    A global retailer with growing big data needs turns to a cloud-based managed service provider. 
                    
			            - By Linda L. Briggs
 - August 12, 2014
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data virtualization helps organizations access and virtually integrate disparate data to feed cognitive analytical tools and delivers that intelligence more easily and widely through data services.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Interest in BI is high in SMBs, nearly half of which want implementation within two months.
                    
			            - By James E. Powell
 - August 7, 2014
 
		            
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    To benefit from BI, align your data analysis practices with key business objectives.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                
                    
                                        
		            
                    Is the data vault one of the better kept secrets in business intelligence?  Agile plus the data vault may be a match made in heaven.
                    
			            - By Stephen  Swoyer
 - August 5, 2014