April 2014 Compliments of Platfora Inc. Download pdf Big data analytics is an essential tool in understanding and driving today’s combined online and physical business world. However, there exists considerable confusion about how traditional business data (e.g. POS, inventory, shipping, etc.) can be combined with modern digital data sources. Add the reality of a still [...]
Replay: BrightTALK Webinar, 9 April, 2014 Business and IT are facing the challenge of getting real and urgent value from ever-expanding information sources. Building independent silos of big data analytics is no longer enough. True progress comes only by integrating data from traditional operational and informational sources with the new sources that are becoming available, [...]
February 2014 Sponsored by Teradata Corporation Download pdf The rapidly emerging Internet of Things presents enormous opportunities for data warehousing and analytics. It also presents a number of challenges. Both aspects are addressed head-on by Teradata's embedding of JSON in its flagship database product.
February 2014 Sponsored by Treasure Data Inc. Download pdf Although much of the popular market attention has focused on the devices on the Internet of Things, the real monetary value emerges from the business’ ability to effectively use the data they generate and on IT’s skill at capturing, storing and managing it. This paper explores [...]
November 2014 Multiple sponsors Download pdf The second annual EMA / 9sight Big Data online survey addressed 259 business intelligence and data management professionals, including almost 600 projects, and was designed to identify the key trends surrounding the adoption, expectations and challenges connected to Big Data. This report summarizes the findings. […]
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September 2013 Sponsored by Teradata Corporation Download pdf Collecting and using machine-generated data as name-value pairs is often seen as demanding Hadoop or other NoSQL tools. This paper shows how it can be effectively done in a relational database, based on work done at eBay. […]
Replay: BrightTALK Webinar, 11 September, 2013 The old world of business intelligence is being transformed into a new biz-tech ecosystem. Analytics is forcing the recombination of operational and informational systems in a consistent and coherent IT environment for all business activities. Big data - despite the hype - introduces two very different types of information [...]
May 2013 Sponsored by International Business Machines Download pdf Operational analytics has become a mandatory competence for modern business. This paper outlines the business value and technological foundations of operational analytics in a manner that is accessible to the business-savvy IT professional and the computer-aware business manager. A well-integrated, highly cohesive and easily extensible platform [...]
December 2012 BI Trends & Strategies, Vol. 1, No. 12 (2012) Download pdf It's easy to foretell continued growth in big data investments next year. But proper management and governance are needed to derive real business value from all that info.