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Has Your Data Plateau Eroded?

Take being a change agent on as your duty as a data professional, sitting on the "gold" of the organization -- data. To get you started, here are six ROI-producing (and fun) data technologies to deploy now.

The Biggest Questions in Analytics: Q&A with Jill Dyché

What's the best way to take analytics to your entire enterprise? We offer an expert's advice about scaling your analytics.

The First Step Is the Hardest: The Path to Advanced Analytics

There's a lot of buzz about advanced analytics. To go beyond the hype and benefit from its potential, managers and practitioners alike need to retool their thinking.

Data Digest: Imperfect Open Source, Security Worries of 2016, and Mining for Data Gold

Waknesses of open source, plus top five cybersecurity concerns this year and data mining for startups.

Data Warehousing: Thirty Years Old and Still Delivering Value

In an industry where technology is changing so rapidly, such longevity is rare and must point to some fundamental and unchanging truths underlying the design. What fundamental and unchanging truths does such longevity reveal?

Q&A: Tremendous Benefits Ahead in the Internet of Things

Connecting physical objects such as sensors and other devices offers great promise -- including analytics that can be performed on the collected data.

4 Key Ingredients to Cloud-Based Enterprise Performance Management that Enable Business Agility

What is EPM and what are the key ingredients of an EPM system that enable business agility?

The Big Data Brouhaha Is Just Beginning

Between 2014 and 2019, IDC projects that big data-related spending will explode at a 23.1 percent compound annual growth rate. That's explosive by any measure.

Q&A: Big Data Trends

How are enterprises gearing up to conquer big data? What issues are they worried about? How do they plan to use big data? Read about the changes ahead.