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Using Methods to Avoid Madness: How Agile Aids Self-Service BI and Analytics

Three recommendations based on TDWI research for applying agile methods.

Where is Cognitive Decision Making in BI? (Part 3 of 3)

Cognitive computing brings together a wide range of disciplines and technologies to address complex situations filled with ambiguity and uncertainty. With so much to recommend it, why isn't it more ubiquitous in enterprise decision making?

Data Digest: Moving BI to the Cloud, Selling BI, and Effective Visualizations for Mobile Devices

Advantages and drawbacks to moving your BI capabilities to the cloud, plus best practices for getting BI project buy-in and how to make effective data visualizations for mobile users.

  • By Quint Turner
  • March 31, 2016

The Winners and Losers of the Microsoft BI Bandwagon

Microsoft is rolling into the BI town on a big bandwagon with their forthcoming SQL Server 2016 release this summer. Who will be the winners and losers when the dust settles?

  • By Jake Dolezal
  • March 30, 2016

Data Digest: Top Big Data Technologies, Analytics and Smaller Data Centers, and a History of the Data Scientist

Articles look at a recent Forrester report on the Top 10 new big data technologies, explain the shift from centralized data centers to smaller ones and the effect on data analytics, and a history of the data scientist.

  • By Quint Turner
  • March 30, 2016

Where is Cognitive Decision Making in BI? (Part 2 of 3)

Cognitive computing brings together a wide range of disciplines and technologies to address complex situations filled with ambiguity and uncertainty. With so much to recommend it, why isn't it more ubiquitous in enterprise decision making?

Data Digest: Focus on the Internet of Things

Articles look at IoT bottlenecks and security risks.

  • By Quint Turner
  • March 29, 2016

Where is Cognitive Decision Making in BI? (Part 1 of 3)

Cognitive computing brings together a wide range of disciplines and technologies to address complex situations filled with ambiguity and uncertainty. With so much to recommend it, why isn't it more ubiquitous in enterprise decision making?

Defining Elastic Data Warehousing

Now that clouds are established IT platforms, some users are migrating their data warehouses to leverage the elasticity of clouds.