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The Future Of BI — No, It’s Not As Simple As “The Dashboards Are Dead”

Forrester IT

Over the last couple of decades, we’ve been observing a seemingly impenetrable barrier: No more than 20% of enterprise decision-makers who could be using business intelligence (BI) applications hands on are doing so.

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Salesforce Genie: One More Enterprise Data Warehouse and Analytics Option

Forrester IT

For years clients have been reaching out with the following question: If a significant portion of all my enterprise data comes from SAP or Oracle business applications (ERP, CRM, etc.), Age of the Customer Business Intelligence Data Analysis Data Insights real-time analytics

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IBM Cognos: Established Business Intelligence Player

CTOvision

It has been in the business intelligence sector competing with capabilities from Business Objects, Microstrategy and Oracle. The IBM Cognos platform is advertised as providing users with the business intelligence and performance management content they need to understand what is needed to improve business and achieve better results. For data volumes in the terabytes, the query layer provides in-memory analytics acceleration for dimensional analysis.

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What are the “true costs” of Business Intelligence?

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: While implementing Business Intelligence can drive revenue and save money, some businesses overlook many of the deployment and ownership costs of BI. In this article, we explore some of the “true costs” of Business Intelligence. The same is true for Business Intelligence. If you plan to scale it across your business, a per-database licensing option gives you the most bang for your buck. Education Business Intelligence

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

application and maximize the value of embedded analytics. application. was often enough for product teams to charge more for their applications and set them. Two trends in particular are forcing application providers to. they interact with their business data.

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5 Business Intelligence Trends to Watch in 2019

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Over the last decade, Business Intelligence has slowly evolved. According to Gartner , “Embedded analytics is the use of reporting and analytic capabilities in transactional business applications.”. Second, businesses are integrating BI tools into their existing software. The problem is, many BI applications are nothing more than data dumps. It’s data placed on a screen and called a report, dashboard, or BI application.

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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge: Business Intelligence for simulating the future

Leveraging Organizational Knowledge

Leveraging your organisational knowledge relates to Knowledge Management, organisational learning, human capital development, social media/networks strategy, multi-channels Customer Relationships Management (CRM) 02 June 2006 Business Intelligence for simulating the future Chris Caren (Microsoft’s general manager of Office business applications) had recently this to say about Business Intelligence: The latest three trends are: 1.

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CDH Users: If you have done impactful things with data please share how what and why

CTOvision

The goal of this program is to recognize organizations running CDH for the applications you’ve built using Hadoop, and for the impact your project is having on the organization, business, and/or society at large. The 2014 Data Impact Awards highlight achievements in the following areas: BUSINESS IMPACT. Drew Conway is a leading expert in the application of computational methods to social and behavioral problems at large-scale. intelligence community.

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Join Architects, Planners, Program Managers, Data Scientists at 4th Annual Cloudera Federal Forum in DC 25 Feb

CTOvision

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Enabling Business Results with Big Data. Pentaho is building the future of business analytics.

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6 essential elements of modern enterprise reporting software

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Have you ever purchased business software, only to realize later that it didn’t quite meet your needs? Data breaches can cause irreparable harm to a business. Multi-tenant security lets you control data access within a single application at the row level. This means that many users access the same application, but view different data. Application-level security. Does every employee in your organization need access to every application?

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

and “What is its business value?”. Each unique situation warrants a cost/benefit analysis to determine if a general-purpose solution like Hadoop is right for your use case. Hadoop is comprised of two major components: the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) and MapReduce, a framework for writing applications to process large amounts of content over multiple nodes (servers). HDFS accepts all these formats for analysis without the need for a schema. By Jeremy Glesner.

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Analyst One Announces Top Analytical Technologies List

CTOvision

Alpine’s lightweight web application does this by leveraging the parallel processing power of Hadoop and MPP databases. The solution enables analysts to blend complex data, build sophisticated analytics in a much easier way than tools like SAS, and simplify how business users consume analytic insights. Cloudera pioneered the business case for Hadoop with CDH, the world’s most comprehensive, tested and widely deployed distribution of Hadoop.

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5 (more) tips to maximize the value of your business data

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

The modern business has access to more data than ever before, and it’s only growing. However, not every business knows how to use this data to its fullest potential. photo credit: BenjaminNelan via pixabay cc The modern business has an amazing opportunity. Here are 5 more tips to maximize the value of your business data. Let me explain: Any good self-service Business Intelligence tool provides a fair amount of flexibility.

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Tamr: Connect and enrich all your data for analytics and decision making

CTOvision

Tamr's data unification platform catalogues, connects and curates internal and external data sources at scale through a combination of machine learning algorithms and human expert guidance, radically reducing the cost, time and effort of preparing data for analysis. For a succinct overview of the Tamr approach see the video at this link and embedded below: From their website: Businesses have mission-critical questions to ask and the data assets they need to answer them.

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Discount Code for Strata and Hadoop World NYC is 28-30 Oct 2013

CTOvision

More on the conference from their website: Strata + Hadoop World is where big data’s most influential decision makers, architects, developers, and analysts gather to shape the future of their businesses and technologies. Since joining forces last year, Strata + Hadoop World is also one of the largest gatherings of the Apache Hadoop community in the world, with emphasis on hands-on and business sessions on the Hadoop ecosystem. Business Analyst. Business Systems Director.

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"CIO Master" Running Digital IT with Highly Cognitive Connectivity

Future of CIO

A digital IT with highly cognitive connectivity is like the nerve system of the business to collective, process and update information. To put briefly, running digital IT with highly cognitive connectivity will become a competitive advantage for building a high-intelligent and highly effective digital business. In practical application, information is all that is used to create the intelligence that shapes strategy; as well as to test the results of strategy execution.

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Five-Step in Data-Based Decision Making Scenario

Future of CIO

The first thing would be to identify clearly how and where you can use analytics in business decision making in business. But, be very flexible to the "what if" analysis that is capable. Not all the business problems can be solved by analytics, so it helps to build credibility to offer the best solution even if it doesn't involve analytics. Get Data Ready Essentially it comes down to where the company is along the analysis sophistication spectrum.

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With Latest DCIM Update, FieldView Focuses on Integration

Data Center Knowledge

Fieldview says its latest update focuses on addressing a critical gap in DCIM solutions: sharing data that is gathered, stored and analyzed with other applications. ” To address these gaps, FieldView is changing from providing a custom integration for individual applications to creating two different data links that streamline and share power, cooling, historical and other information critical to optimizing today’s data centers. About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events.

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Digital Shift: An Intelligent Enterprise

Future of CIO

Being a Smart Business goes beyond just Playing Analytics Tools Only! Information is the lifeblood of the digital business; more and more organizations are declaring they are in an information and technology business, more & more organizations have ‘digital ambition’ to become a customer-centric business, ecologic business and intelligent business. They must make it easy for business users to explore and correlate multiple dimensions of data.

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Is Dashboard Out of Date

Future of CIO

However, many of today’s dashboards are not very effective for various users to capture business insight, so is dashboard out of date? Causes of Ineffective Dashboard BI and Data Analytics are hot deployments in businesses today; however, are the dashboards smarter than twenty years ago? Ineffective dashboards are the result of developers’ failure to intimately understand the business model and decision-making process.

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BI for the Masses: An Update

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Some recent announcements from Microsoft about their Business Intelligence strategy are worth noting, especially as we're seeing Business Performance Management initiatives (dashboards, scorecards, KPIs, reporting portals, etc.) The most notable changes announced were regarding PerformancePoint Server, Microsoft's BI product suite offering: Monitoring (formerly Business Scorecard Manager), Analysis (formerly the Proclarity suite of analysis tools), and .

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Is Your Oracle EBS Ready for DevSecOps?

Flexagon

Businesses everywhere are modernizing through digital transformation. You start with security in mind, building applications that are rigorously designed. Implement DevSecOps with Oracle E-Business Suite, and you’ll let developers focus on coding. Static and Dynamic Analysis.

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New Approaches for New Big Data Insights

Cloud Musings

by Melvin Greer Business Intelligence has matured as a core competency necessary to sustain competitive advantage. Organizations of every size and industry are generating valuable data with each interaction, and that data can be captured, analyzed, and turned into business insight. These organizations are using analytics features like dashboards , advanced visualization , data warehousing , and other technologies to achieve their strategic business objectives.

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SAP HANA: A Fantasy Football Use Case

CTOvision

The HANA platform has proven its ability to ingest and delivery real-time insights in some of the most data intensive environments from finance and life sciences to defense and intelligence. The HANA platform has completely changed the database industry by combining database, data processing, and application platform capabilities into a single in-memory platform. New IBM-SAP Sales-Kit for Business Partner available (ibm.com).

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Five Architects Of The Future From Tamr Provide Insightful Assessments on Data In 2016

CTOvision

The net effect of “one size does not fit all” is that most applications will use multiple DBMSs, each optimized for a portion of their requirements. Data quality will move from being a one-shot ETL exercise into a continuous process in the data production pipeline ─ informed by analytic and reporting tools and enforced in all levels at the business intelligence stack. 5) Michael Brodie ─ Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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New Approaches for New Big Data Insights

Cloud Musings

by Melvin Greer Business Intelligence has matured as a core competency necessary to sustain competitive advantage. Organizations of every size and industry are generating valuable data with each interaction, and that data can be captured, analyzed, and turned into business insight. These organizations are using analytics features like dashboards , advanced visualization , data warehousing , and other technologies to achieve their strategic business objectives.

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How to avoid business downtime when navigating digital transformation

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - How to avoid business downtime when navigating digital transformation - Information Technology Blog. Business owners need to understand that they are increasing their business’ cyber-attack surface.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

Previously, I wrote about Amazon QuickSight , a new service targeted at business users that aims to simplify the process of deriving insights from a wide variety of data sources quickly, easily, and at a low cost. QuickSight is a very fast, cloud-powered, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions. Finally, their complex user experiences are designed for power users and not suitable for the fast-growing segment of business users.

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25 Feb Cloudera Federal Forum in Tysons Corner: Amazing agenda filled with lessons learned and best practices

CTOvision

This popular gathering is designed to enable dialogue about business and technical strategies to leverage today’s big data platforms and applications to your advantage. Track sessions will focus on: Enabling Business Results with Big Data — How to enable agency programs that will yield enormous value through big data to deliver actionable information and measureable results. Enabling Business Results with Big Data. Pentaho is building the future of business analytics.

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Why Companies Are Turning to AWS Managed Services

Galido

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a cloud services platform that offers you computing power, database storage, content delivery and other functionality to help your business scale and grow; besides being much more secure than a physical server. Amazon Web Services provides different options such as storage, cloud server, database, application monitoring and other services such as the creation of users, groups, roles and policies.

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Please, Stop Creating Microsoft Access Databases!

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Its relatively easy for a business user to perform analysis on a single data source, or even a handful if the data relationships are understood. Business Exchange Profile. business exchange. (11).

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2017 Expectations: 5 Areas Where Technology Will Continue to Revolutionize Business Processes

CTOvision

It's safe to say that the advent of computers changed the way business is done. As computing has continued to evolve, so is business changing to leverage the new technologies and new techniques that better computing provides. Technological changes happen so fast that most businesses struggle to keep up, and are forced to adopt a philosophy of innovation and streamlined operations to stay competitive. Cloud Computing Trends revolutionize businessCarol M. Evenson.

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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker: BI Inflection Point: Oracle Swallows Hyperion

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge Worker Home Archives Profile Subscribe About KMA About Categories Articles Books Business Intelligence Collaboration Current Affairs Events Google Apps Knowledge Management Microsoft Office Off Topic Products Project Management Science Search SharePoint Social Media Technology Industry This Blog Web 2.0 Potential next targets: Cognos, Business Objects.

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The Problems with Siloed Databases Part 2

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Its more often poor planning, lack of knowledge transfer and / or changes of use over time." - I completely agree that this is what makes ongoing database and application support complex. Business Exchange Profile.

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Analytics Re-shaping IT Operations & Gaining Strong Momentum.

Data Center Knowledge

IT is expected to support a wider range of technologies and platforms, as well as accelerated release schedules and still solve time-sensitive business challenges, despite cost pressures and complexity that frustrates many IT ops teams. For IT Operations, change is a fact of life, taking place at every level of the application and infrastructure stack, with an impact on nearly every part of the business. About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Industry Perspectives.

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Three Steps to Big Data Discovery - Social, Agile, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Data discovery efforts are particularly challenging in an enterprise or even medium sized business with many disparate databases. Im an advocate of bottoms up, business driven discovery efforts.

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Observations on the Importance of Cloud-based Analytics

All Things Distributed

There is almost no consumer or business area that is not impacted by Cloud enabled analytics. Often it is hidden from the consumer’s eye as it empowers applications rather than being the end game but analytics is becoming more prevalent. We even see that for many businesses Amazon Redshift is the first cloud service they ever use. Adoption is now really starting to explode in 2015 as more and more businesses understand the power analytics has to empower their organizations.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data. Amazon Redshift, DynamoDB, Amazon EMR) whereas insights need to be derived by not just developers but also non-technical business users. QuickSight is a fast, cloud native, scalable, business intelligence service for the 1/10th the cost of old-guard BI solutions.

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MapR Platform Now Available on Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

Data Center Knowledge

MapR Technologies announced MapR M7, a Big Data platform for NoSQL and Apache Hadoop applications, now available through Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR). MapR’s latest technology accomplishment with the availability of the MapR M7 Distribution is providing ground breaking capabilities for Apache HBase applications to enhance Big Data operations,” said John Schroeder, CEO and co-founder, MapR Technologies. About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Big Data » Hewlett-Packard.

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Assessing IT Performance vis Multidimensional Lenses

Future of CIO

IT metrics need to evolve to something that matters to the business audience, at the same time that "business sentiment" needs to get put into something more tangible, such as optimize processes, or improve productivity. Obviously, you are demonstrating the value of IT to business. The business would like to know what's in it for them. Hence, collecting and acting on business feedback is the most important project each year for every IT department.

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Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation

Social, Agile and Transformation

I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Collaboration between Business and IT Leads to Innovation. Once a product was conceptualized, a search was conducted to find the most suitable software solutions and a feature point analysis was completed.

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Is your business falling behind? 5 technologies you should already be using in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

Summary: Technology is evolving faster than ever, and plays an increasingly important role in the business world. If your business doesn’t have these technologies in place already, you could be falling behind. It discusses many of the hot trends we’ve heard a lot about recently, like blockchain, AI, VR/AR, IoT, etc… Now, there’s no doubt that these trends will have a big impact on the business world in the near future. Are your web applications mobile friendly?

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Fishbowl Finds the Right Fit for Hybrid Cloud With Latisys » Data.

Data Center Knowledge

The end result came from internal analysis and Latisys’ suggestions.”. There’s a lot of business intelligence and data warehousing that require a lot of horsepower, as well as application/web servers and other applications dedicated to handling massive email volumes. The nature of Fishbowl restaurant-focused business means a lot of fluctuation. About DCK. Advertise. Subscribe. Events. Cloud Computing » Latisys.