BI This Week


Analysis: Watson Analytics Advances New Paradigm of User Assistance

Does IBM's new Watson Analytics offering herald the advent of a new class of quasi-intelligent machines capable of beating the best of human analysts at their own game?

Q&A: The Untapped Potential Inside Social Media, Analytics (Part 2 of 2)

Using predictive analytics on a combination of social media and data from in-house systems can be a powerful combination. We offer insights into the potential and how to make the business case for using social media analytics.

Who Should be Building Predictive Models?

With statistical and data mining skills in short supply, are the right people building your models? These three safeguards can help you avoid model-building problems.

Chasing the Real-Time BI Dream

It is time for your organization to put "achieving at or near real-time views of data" higher on its strategic priority list?

Big Data Still Big Unknown According to New Survey

A new survey looks at big data readiness, investment plans, and deployment approaches.

Marketing IT In-House: Users Have to Know Why They’re There

Make sure users understand their roles in the enterprise before you begin a BI project.

SAS Solution Gives Boost to Statistically Fluent Users

SAS Visual Statistics is designed to make the statistically fluent even more productive. Crucially, this is a class that includes business analysts, power users, and other non-traditional "statisticians."

Q&A: Getting the Greatest Value from Social Media Analytics (Part 1 of 2)

Predictive analytics can be used on social media data to better understand and react to customer behavior. Combining it with in-house data can yield deeper insights.

Marketing IT In-House: Take Time to Specialize

BI specialists and generalists can help each other make the most of what they bring to the table, but fulfilling experiences come more often to those who take time to differentiate themselves with specializations.