Tag: #analytics
The business of analytics: It takes a village…
We’re all familiar with the African proverb “it takes a village to raise a child” – the notion that each of us benefits from...
Nowhere to hide: Nuix Voice speeds audio and video analytics
Nuix, an information protection and security intelligence provider, has announced its partnership with voice analytics vendor Voci Technologies. Under the terms of the agreement, the...
IB Summit 2016 – hot trends and Big BI
“Data is the hot market to be in for users and for vendors,” declared Jeremy Ballanco, Information Builders VP of iWay sales, at IB...
Information Builders plugs the gap
Big Data and analytics are, as we keep being told, hot, hot, hot. Trolling through masses of input from as many sources as we...
Hybrid vigour
When the cloud rose to prominence, as usual pundits promptly declared that it would replace previous technologies. In the IT world, anything new tends...
Aligning BI skill, practice and healthcare outcomes
ICT skills development has long been lauded as a key input to business productivity, a vehicle for improving labour employability and indeed as the...
Avinash Kaushik: Every Critical Metric Should Have A BFF!
InsightaaS: Avinash Kaushik is the author of two best-selling books (Web Analytics 2.0 and Web Analytics: An Hour A Day), an advisor to/lecturer at...
A deep dive into predictive analytics
Data is the new gold, but how do we mine it for actionable insight into business potential? Increasingly, organizations are turning to analytics, and...
Building infrastructure for data-driven decisioning
Beyond their intrinsic value as a showcase for new technology implementation, case studies provide additional benefit. By demonstrating the art-of the-possible, they help organizations...
HBR: Why Your Analytics are Failing You
InsightaaS: Harvard Business Review (HBR) is recognized worldwide as a leading source of management insight and innovation. In this post, Michael Schrage, a research...
Ovum: Hortonworks HDP 2.1 release starts extending “Hadoop Core” platform
InsightaaS: Ovum’s StraightTalk blogsite provides a central portal for opinions from Europe’s best-recognized IT analyst firm. In this post, principal analyst Tony Baer discusses...
Big Data facts, myths and eventualities: 8 insights and implications
Eleven years ago, Nicholas Carr published a Harvard Business Review article entitled "IT Doesn’t Matter" (followed quickly by a book with a slightly more...
Breakthrough Analytics: turning data into predictions
We know that analytics is becoming increasingly important because we are told that this is the case every week. Many of the most visible...
Building on BI to achieve analytics insight
Analytics have become the poster child for how IT empowers people, processes and production. As additional sources of data have emerged out of social...