BI This Week


Hadoop, Cheap Storage, and Parallel Processing

Casting Hadoop as a platform for cheap storage -- e.g., a Hadoop-based "data lake" -- only gets at half of what makes Hadoop new, compelling, and uniquely valuable.

Marketing IT In-House: Define the BI Conversation for User Management

IT teams can influence how executive managers think and talk about their business intelligence needs.

Q&A: Centralized Governed Architecture Needed for Today's BI

As BI expands its footprint across the enterprise, centralized management and governance are key.

Data Digest: Big Data Best Practices, Data Lakes, and DW in the Cloud

Three experts offer suggestions for maximizing your use of big data. Plus how not to drown in a data lake, and the pluses and minuses of warehousing your data in the cloud.

Data Digest: Data Analytics and Genetics, Self-Service Adoption, and Avoiding the IoT Data Flood

How analytics is helping Celgene eliminate waste and deliver the right drugs to the right patients. Plus the key to encouraging self-service analytics adoption, and how to manage the flood of data after connecting to the Internet of things.

Data Digest: Data Analytics Keeps Gamers Engaged, IoT's Future, and Open Data in the Enterprise

How enterprises are benefiting from public, non-personal government "open data", plus how to improve video game UI and IoT's future according to GE Capital's CIO.

Moving IT Operations from Silo to Services Management

A collaborative approach is the ideal solution for service management and infrastructure triage.

ThoughtSpot Touts a Data Warehouse-less Take on Ad Hoc Query -- and Dashboards

ThoughtSpot dubs itself a "relational search appliance."

The Future of Search

Enterprise search in 2020 will have evolved from being your personal assistant to being your personal advisor.