Microsoft has acquired Revolution Analytics, which makes enterprise-grade products for the open source R statistical analysis and programming environment. It isn't Microsoft's first foray into open source -- although, from a BI standpoint, it's arguably its most exciting. Just what does Revolution Analytics bring to Microsoft, and what can Microsoft do for Revolution?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 28, 2015
It depends on what you think a data warehouse is and what your organization is trying to do with it.
- By Philip Russom, Ph.D.
- January 27, 2015
What is core -- and important -- to understand about Hadoop and its adoption into the enterprise.
Machine data is about more than just anticipating outages and maintenance. When machine data is used to its fullest, it informs business decisions to drive business performance.
Skytree says its Infinity machine-learning platform picks up where BI leaves off.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 27, 2015
What are data scientists, what do they do, and what skills do they have?
Data visualization helps you communicate analytics results in pictures. It's become a language of images. We explore the elements and rules of the data visualization language so you can speak it better.
- By Dave Wells
- January 20, 2015
How BI is built and managed just isn't consistent with the way it's used. Are we about to reprise the exact same mistakes in the world of big data (mis)management?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- January 20, 2015
How can you measure the success of your enterprise data warehouse initiative? Ralph Hughes has devised a concise set of seven factors to evaluate.
- By James E. Powell
- January 13, 2015