We’ve certainly come a long way when it comes to business intelligence (BI) and analytics, Organizations have become very adept and taking data from multiple sources and packaging it into formats for consumption by analytics engines and algorithms. While we have addressed the technical aspects of BI and analytics, the organizational challenges and data dilemmas... more
Data has changed everything around us. It is the strategic disruptor that is transforming businesses, governments and every one of us across the globe. We have moved from a world where it was an outcome of automating transactions, to a second wave where databases, apps and analytics helped deliver competitive advantage. However, in the third... more
Business success is measured by how fast you can deliver the next business insight that accelerates your organization. That’s true regardless of whether your goals are improved customer churn, better recommendations for sales optimization, or better patient health outcomes. And success depends on the state of the data your analysts have to work with. It’s... more
Are people at your company using next-generation analytical tools such as tableau and Qlik? If you answered yes, then your organization is one of the growing list of 32,000 organizations using QlikView and 24,000 organizations using tableau to organize data, visualize data, analyze data, and take action based on data insights without any technical skills... more
There is an old Business Intelligence Axiom that has always held true: BI Axiom: Dirty data in -> Dirty data out When trying to perform analytics or reporting over a large data set it has been proven over and over again that if the underlying data that you are analyzing is dirty then the reports... more
Are you in Sales Operations, Marketing Operations, Sales Representative/Manager, or Marketing Professional? It’s no secret that if you are, you benefit greatly from the power of performing your own analysis, at your own rapid pace. When you have a hunch, you can easily test it out by visually analyzing data in Tableau without involving IT.... more
A few days ago, I came across a post, 5 C’s of MDM (Case, Content, Connecting, Cleansing, and Controlling), by Peter Krensky, Sr. Research Associate, Aberdeen Group and this response by Alan Duncan with his 5 C’s (Communicate, Co-operate, Collaborate, Cajole and Coerce). I like Alan’s list much better. Even though I work for a product company specializing... more
Several years ago, I got to participate in one of the first neural net conferences. At the time, I thought it was amazing just to be there. There were chip and software vendors galore. Many even claimed to be the next Intel or the next Microsoft. Years later I joined a complex event processing vendor.... more
I recently came across an article from 2006, which is clearly out-of-date, but still a good read about the state of data integration eight years ago. “Data integration was hot in 2005, and the intense interest in this topic continues in 2006 as companies struggle to integrate their ever-growing mountain of data. A TDWI study... more