Tag: Analytics
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Baking and Computers, a Surprising History of Analytics Pioneers
Perhaps surprisingly, baking companies and computers have a long history of working together. The very first business application ever was “bakery valuations” in 1951, and now pioneers like Turkish baker UNO are taking things to the next level with in-memory technology.
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Christmas Tree Analytics
Americans will spend around $3.4 billion buying over 25M Christmas trees this year. How can analytics help?
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Is Big Data The New Term for Business Intelligence?
Forget about “business intelligence” vs “business analytics”: newcomer “big data” seems to be winning the war of the words…
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Never Underestimate The Importance of BI User Training
End-user training for business intelligence is worth investing in — giving somebody a pencil doesn’t make them Picasso!
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The Peril of Analytics (Cartoon)
Analytics has always been dangerous for a certain type of middle-manager…
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Scrooge Didn’t Believe in Sentiment Analysis Either
Famously cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy, it’s a fair bet Scrooge didn’t care much about sentiment analysis. But it is one of the most powerful new “big data” options available today.
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Could Ebenezer Scrooge Be On YOUR Board?
Could Ebenezer Scrooge be on your board, comfortable with lagging income statement and balance sheet measures, or are you taking advantage of the latest advances in big data to sense changes to your business environment in real time?
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Rethinking BI: 3 Big New Old Ideas
Here are some ideas on how new analytics technologies are going to impact one of the most important business processes in modern organizations — the provision of business intelligence itself.
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Marketing People in Glass Houses Shouldn’t Throw Stones
InformationWeek Executive Editor Doug Henschen takes Oracle to task for having the gall to criticize his article about Microsoft’s new in-memory solution while being less than candid about their own in-memory solution: Oracle Spotlights Its Database Memory Gap. The result of Oracle’s action is an article that explains in detail the gap between Oracle’s marketing…
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SAP and the ‘Nexus of Forces’
Gartner says four hugely disruptive technology trends are converging — the “Nexus of Forces” — bringing change and opportunity to the way businesses operate, and restructuring the IT industry as a whole.