Cloud BI player Birst says that it's the biggest name in network BI. Network BI isn't a recognized category, but Birst's vision of it gets at a real and pressing problem.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 13, 2016
Graph database technology gives us a way to clarify the connections between and among data points, facts, analytics, and other synthetic objects. As more enterprises intend to relate data across disparate data models, interest in graphing technology should rise.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 13, 2016
We IT professionals are in danger of losing our history if we don't make the effort to remember the contributions of those who went before us.
- By Bill Inmon
- May 12, 2016
There's still a teeming market for best-of-breed data-source and application connectivity software. Business intelligence (BI) and analytics use cases, which emphasize ODBC and JDBC, are as hot as ever -- but so are RESTful APIs.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 11, 2016
Big data engineer will be among the hottest jobs in 2016, with starting salary growth of almost 9 percent. Wait, what's a big data engineer?
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 10, 2016
Understanding the Internet of Things is crucial in today’s changing marketplace. Read about the history of the term and how to modernize your analytics for IoT devices, plus advice for an overall data management strategy, in today’s data digest.
- By Quint Turner
- May 10, 2016
The impetus for MDM should come from within and be shared by all of the lines of business. There must be a consensus that there's a business problem and that MDM is the solution.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 5, 2016
IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and other traditional DI powers are no longer leading the integration-platform-as-a-service pack. Instead, they're working feverishly on HIP for the interconnected environments of the future.
- By Steve Swoyer
- May 5, 2016