In the New Information Economy, self-service use provides an empirical basis for demand. If people repeatedly use self-service tools to construct certain kinds of data flows, to perform certain kinds of analyses, or to access and integrate data from as-yet-unmanaged internal or external data sources, that's a critical signal to IT. These are use cases that must and should be identified, standardized, and productized as reusable information assets.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 22, 2016
Limitations of ETL and how to get around them, plus big data project failure due to miscommunication among employees and how bad data quality prevents good marketing automation.
- By Quint Turner
- February 22, 2016
Decision makers seek meaning in their information, hoping to achieve wisdom to incorporate into their decisions.
- By Barry Devlin
- February 22, 2016
Boost the data quality of your data warehouse with six practical techniques.
- By Wes Flores
- February 19, 2016
Proponents of data warehouse automation say the way we design, build, and manage data warehouse systems is obsolete. They say ingenuity, not labor, is the most important contribution human beings can make to the design, development, and optimization of the warehouse.
- By Steve Swoyer
- February 19, 2016
Overcoming common data visualization pitfalls, pretty pictures aren't enough for effective visualization, and how to craft a persuasive data presentation.
- By Quint Turner
- February 19, 2016
Is acting as a liaison between IT and business users a good idea? Jill offers three conditions before you agree to serve in such a position
- By Jill Dyché
- February 18, 2016
We explain the four things your IoT project needs to be successful.
- By Asim Razvi
- February 18, 2016
A look at how Hadoop and Spark do things differently (and extremely well), plus why sophisticated attacks require sophyisticated defenses and are personal clouds a good policy?
- By Quint Turner
- February 18, 2016