The explosive growth of data can help companies better target customers and identify top talent, among other uses, hoarding can degrade the effectiveness of data-driven processes and impede employee productivity. HR leaders can help organizations cope. Read More…
St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia established a business intelligence master’s degree program in 2005 in response to global demand for business people who knew how to work with large datasets and analyze complex problems. Read More…
GIS technology can lead to more profitable operations. But companies looking to implement powerful location analytics tools need to lay the groundwork in terms of data models, information systems business processes to yield the benefits, Stephen McElroy of American Sentinel University writes in this opinion piece.
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For many people, “big data” may simply mean running analytics on a Hadoop cluster. But there’s a broad range of technologies and techniques that are enabling a new class of analytics applications. To take them on, companies need to reconsider Read More…
Marketers are looking to get the right message in front of the right person at the right time—and use data to do it. What if you had a suite of software that did all the heavy lifting, from data quality Read More…
Hadoop may be built for big data but it’s not known for supporting the slicing and dicing of real-time information. Now a number of companies are working to change that by connecting in-memory technologies to the popular open source distributed Read More…
It’s popular in today’s big data hype cycle to focus on newer forms of data like user behavior data from websites and sentiment data from social media. But Shep Parke, the managing principal of markets and strategy at GrowthOps, said Read More…
In this video, Robert Kosara, a visual analysis researcher at Tableau, presents lessons that analytics professionals and decision-makers can learn from four effective presentations that show how data can tell stories and yield important insights. Read More…
In support of legislation that would standardize and publish all federal spending data, a group of technology companies will make their case at a public gathering in Washington on May 16. The event, dubbed DATA Demo Day, is timed to Read More…
Lora Cecere, founder of Supply Chain Insights, is conducting research into how the issue of IT-business alignment relates to success in implementing big data projects. Read More…
On-demand dashboards and robust data handling capabilities are key selling features for any workforce analytics package. But HR professionals are better advised to take a deliberate approach focused on business value when choosing HR software. Related Stories Guide to Human Read More…
Faced with an anticipated shortage of data scientists, a number of analytics software and services vendors have begun offering certification programs to both increase the number of qualified analysts and set standards of competency. The latest is Chicago-based Mu Sigma, Read More…
David Meerman Scott has a wakeup call for marketers’ traditional way of approaching customers and campaigns designed to reach them: Stop working so much on the future. Instead, focus on the now. Scott, a marketing strategist and author of several Read More…
