ORLANDO—Effective presentations of business intelligence insights rely on good business processes and strong data and project management practices. Those were lessons from two of the more interesting user presentations at the Information Builders Summit held here June 3 through 7 Read More…
Enterprises that establish privacy programs have the opportunity to custom-fit existing privacy laws to the specific industry or business. Having a well-thought-out privacy program also can serve as a market differentiator. Here are seven recommendations for crafting a solid corporate privacy program. Read More…
For any target big data platform, you must have an application development framework that supports a system development lifecycle and provides a means for loading and executing the developed application. This article discusses the principles involved and how programmers use the MapReduce and ECL frameworks to analyze big datasets. Read More…
Land O’ Lakes saw an opportunity to create a software product that would help growers buy the best seeds, and help its WinField unit and partners sell them to farmers. CIO Barry Libenson recounts the process that led to the analytics system’s implementation and rollout. Read More…
Riviera Partner’s custom-made workforce analytics tool consists of a huge database of internal and external data on candidates that the firm uses to target, score and identify the best match for its clients. Read More…
By analyzing social media conversations – and watching what content people are sharing – analysts can answer a number of practical marketing-related questions. Marketing practitioners working in retail, including Rue La La, manufacturing and telecommunications discuss their experiences.
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Keeping IT operations humming smoothly at a defense contractor and serving up medical records for thousands of doctors are different challenges. But they are two use cases for the behind-the-scenes tools used to monitor the performance of these IT processes: Read More…
Many enterprises are still struggling with how to get value out of their own data. But some companies, like online real estate marketplace Zillow, have made products entirely out of data from outside their organization. In Zillow’s case, the entire Read More…
More and more companies are talking about “customer centricity” as a new management framework that allows them to build stronger relationships with customers by better understanding their behaviors and anticipating their needs. But many firms have very different perspectives about what customer centricity means, and these definitions are often quite contradictory. Dr. Peter Fader will clarify this important concept and convey what executives really need to know about this area. Read More…
It’s not just about technical expertise. Enterprises are looking for data strategists, leaders who can influence business cultures “to make things happen.” That’s the message from Justin Cerilli, a New York-based executive recruiter for Russell Reynolds Associates with specific expertise in big Read More…
With the Atlantic hurricane season underway on June 1, chances are that the storm tracking forecasts from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) will be more accurate than ever. The Miami-based division of the U.S. National Weather Service responsible for predicting Read More…
Despite the growing complexity of big data and the methods to analyze it, self-service analytics and business intelligence tools are hitting the market in droves. That’s because an offshoot of the big data blitz is that appetite for data analysis, Read More…
