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			            - By Barry  Devlin
- April 15, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Getting to know more about your customers can strengthen and solidify your relationships with them. 
                    
			            - By Wes  Flores
- April 13, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Articles examine a new role for open source in big data, opportunities and challenges for open source in the enterprise, and security priorities for data centers.
                    
			            - By Quint  Turner
- April 11, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Increasingly, IT is involved as a partner with marketing, not a dictator.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- April 1, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Data is seductive.  Here are five steps designers can take to make sure they don’t succumb to data’s temptations.
                    
			            - By Cass  Brewer
- March 25, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Flash platforms are helping enterprises analyzing big data, plus the growing need for BI in Africa and how HIPAA can impede analysis of protected healthcare data.
                    
			            - By James E.  Powell
- March 24, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Properly securing your cloud migration, plus why open source software might be more secure than private software and Hadoop best practices.
                    
			            - By Quint  Turner
- March 21, 2016
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.
                    
			            - By Steve  Swoyer
- March 18, 2016