BI This Week


Streaming Toward the Future

From continuous analytics to operational intelligence to good old complex event processing, the future is one of streams: lots and lots of streams.

Personal Data Collection: Privacy Concerns May Degrade Data Quality

In an effort to protect their privacy, consumers may be providing merchants with inaccurate data.

Making Real-Time Analytics a Reality

In-memory analytics processing and access to live data is finally achievable and will make active live analytics a real possibility, and that opens up a new area of information processing and exchange.

5 Steps to Turning Big Data into Smart Data (Part 2 of 2)

Most data is dumb; it is hard to find, hard to combine with other data, and hard to understand. If data is dumb, then big data is very dumb. Here are five steps to making it smart.

Turning Big Data into Smart Data (Part 1 of 2)

We explain the business and technical challenges that motivate the need for smart data.

Massive Climate Data Awaits Analysis

Huge amounts of climate data is available for free to journalists and the general public. One challenge is finding easy-to-use data analysis tools that can effectively help users visualize the raw big data.

Marketing IT In-House: Preserve the Meaning of BI

Preserve the meaning of BI by making every possible technology serve it.

Embedding Advanced Analytics

To get the most value and greatest insight from your analytics, embed your analytics into your business processes.

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Analytics in the Cloud

It can be fiendishly hard to translate a BI and analytic practice to the cloud. It can be no easier to spin up a new BI and analytic practice.