Panic ensued in the Sanyal household last Saturday when my daughter’s MacBook stopped working. Life, as we know it, came to an end. And so, I did what any reasonable parent would do: wrote her a $3,000 check to buy a new laptop. Okay, I know you may be ROFLing, so settle down—I was just... more
Spring is just around the corner. Spring is the period between spring equinox and summer solstice. The equinox is the time Sun’s center crosses Earth’s equator – which means you would see sun rising exactly from the east and setting exactly in the west. And this celestial alignment results in equal length of day and night... more
Ergotron is a leader in the digital mounting technology industry, with a clear mission: “To use ergonomic and human-centered design principles to build kinetic work environments that help our customers thrive.” Ergotron’s focus on its customer’s health, comfort and ultimate success has extended beyond its products and led to its journey to improve their customer’s... more
There’s a lot of industry talk and customer movement towards analytics modernization. After all, analytics is the proverbial rubber hitting the road when it comes to data answering business questions and guiding business decisions. The analytic visuals are critical to understanding, the sliders key to finding outliers, and mobility essential to answering business questions when... more
With the latest release of Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Microsoft doubles-down on Azure SQL DW as one of the core data services for digital transformation on Azure. In addition to the fundamental benefits of agility, on-demand scaling and unlimited compute availability, the most recent price-to-performance metrics (read the GigaOM report) are one of several the... more
Whether you’re talking to supply chain executives in manufacturing, in distribution, or in retail, the pain points are the same: If they’re sourcing products or services from multiple vendors, they must address some or all of these five challenges to supplier information management. No trusted view: Supply chain executives struggle to get a... more
An organization’s data management journey is much like holiday shopping: sometimes the effort can feel long and complicated, but it ultimately leads to great outcomes. Just like embarking on a holiday shopping trip to your local mall or searching a variety of ecommerce sites, a “shopping trip” to solve your business’ data management challenges, begins... more
At Deloitte’s Experience Analytics conference this year, there was an interesting and entertaining lab focussing on how to prepare for, and respond to, a data theft. The format was a simulation of a data breach scenario: We were asked to image that we worked for a fictitious European airline who was being blackmailed. The blackmailers... more
It’s been an interesting and sometimes daunting task these days to read or watch the news and notice all the disruptions around the world. From political, to geological to climate-related it seems that disruption is everywhere. But not all the disruption you hear about is negative. In our business, we’ve found that often, companies that... more
Data is the lifeblood of every organization today. The flood of Internet of Things (IoT) data means organizations are dealing with data streaming at breakneck speed. However, the struggle for organizations is not in collecting IoT data, but how they can make that data meaningful and useful. And more importantly, actionable. When master data management... more