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Taking Advantage of Predictive Models (Last in a Series)

Predictive analytics is most powerful when it’s incorporated into your business processes but that may be hard to enable. Here’s how to start incrementally.

Don’t Let Your Data Lake Become a Swamp (Part 1 of 2)

How do you prevent your data lake from becoming a data dump? It’ll take a new set of infrastructures and technologies, especially one called textual disambiguation.

Data Digest: Focus on IoT

IoT implementations may lead to inevitable security risks, plus IoT software you must understand and taking control of your software with software asset management.

Overcoming the Data Scientist Shortage: Democratizing Predictive Analytics

Collaboration, validation, education, and organization can help your organization democratize advanced analytics.

Transactional Safeguards: An ACID and BASE Primer

NoSQL technologies were developed to address the scaling and availability issues unique to Web application development. We explore the ACID vs. BASE dilemma for enterprises.

Logical Data [Warehouse] Architecture

What will tomorrow's information enterprise look like? One proposed architecture is the logical data warehouse, or LDW. The "D" in LDW might be something of a misnomer, however.

From Waterfall to Agile: Three Lessons Learned

Learn from real-life experiences of switching from waterfall-style development to completely agile analytics.

Data Digest Mar 21 2016

Properly securing your cloud migration, plus why open source software might be more secure than private software and Hadoop best practices.

Learning to Lose Control

Organizations must recognize when an overly restrictive governance regimen is an impediment to innovation -- particularly to innovation that has the potential to accelerate business intelligence or analytical development.