An adaptive decision-making process can bring together business factions and help knit different processes together. Well-known author and consultant Barry Devlin explains how in this, the second part of a two-part interview.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- February 24, 2015
Looker claims that its take on BI self-service permits business analysts or other savvy user types to build their own dashboard or analytic views.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 24, 2015
The answer is: It depends. ETL and ELT jobs vary a lot. Hadoop is suitable for some but not others.
- By Philip Russom, Ph.D.
- February 24, 2015
Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.
Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.
Welcome to Analytics 3.0. At TDWI's Las Vegas Conference, keynote speaker Tom Davenport argued that you don't have to be a Silicon Valley start-up to practice data-analytics innovation.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 23, 2015
Hitachi Data Systems has acquired Pentaho, but what was the company thinking?
Hitachi Data Systems acquired open source analytics specialist Pentaho. HDS itself has almost no presence in BI and data warehousing (DW) -- or the big data analytic space, for that matter -- with the obvious exception of its role as a provider of enterprise storage and compute resources. Which begs a pretty pressing question: just what is HDS thinking?
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 19, 2015
Although business analytics is highly personal, the components of an analytic practice -- starting with the data warehouse itself – must be highly personal, too.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 17, 2015
As speed of information becomes paramount, the decision-making process must be adapted to meet changing business needs.
- By Linda L. Briggs
- February 17, 2015
Start-up Metanautix claims to automate data prep, consolidate query processing, and function as a single analytics engine for all query needs.
- By Stephen Swoyer
- February 17, 2015
How organizations are improving skills, expanding their technical knowledge, and gaining executive support for next-generation analytics.
- By Fern Halper, Ph.D.
- February 17, 2015