How BI Saves Lives and Money
Business intelligence has two main applications: gathering information and discovering patterns. When applied to healthcare, it allows providers to collect…
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Ways to Prevent Big Data Failure
Gartner has stated that 80% of BI and analytics projects fail; while tools are getting more sophisticated and software is…
Embedded BI in Digital Marketing
Providing data analysis for marketing can be expensive, time-consuming, and something that seems to take an eternity to implement. Does…
Introduce Agile Environments for Your BI Team
Agile is like Big Data – a buzzword that has been around for a couple of years already, but in…
Hearing the Voice of Your Customer
What do these very diverse businesses have in common? TWA. PAN AM. Woolworth’s. Sports Authority. Staples. Banana Republic. They have one…
Law of Unintended Consequences
Many years ago, there was an IT department. The role of the IT department was to extend the business of…
Getting Big Data Right: A Checklist to Evaluate Your Environment
Anyone who has been awake for the past few years cannot but help to have noticed that there is a…
The Book Look: Growing Business Intelligence
Larry Burns wrote the book Agile Data Management, an extremely practical book about how to make agile work without sacrificing…
Data Architecture COMN Sense – Is the Data Warehouse Dead?
It was a pleasure to attend a data warehousing event in Austin, Texas in early December to take a few…
Bad Data’s Impact on Decision-Making
Having been around the block, we data professionals have seen many cases of data which could be construed as “imaginative.” …