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What is a business intelligence analyst? A key role for data-driven decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. What does a business intelligence analyst do? The role is becoming increasingly important as organizations move to capitalize on the volumes of data they collect through business intelligence strategies.

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Push-Down Query Capabilities: Five Questions To Ask Your Cloud BI Provider

Forrester IT

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) offers many benefits, including but not limited to elasticity: the ability to shrink and grow storage and compute resources on demand. Clients of most leading enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms enjoy this cloud elasticity benefit but at a cost.

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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, and “What is its business value?”. What is Big Data? To gain value from this data, you must choose an alternative way to process it.”

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Big Data - Ensuring High Performance

IT Toolbox

Big data applications are common in large IT enterprises. As the holiday season approaches,

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Which Government, Non-Profit and NGO Have Big Data/CDH Lessons Learned To Share?

CTOvision

Successfully deploying Hadoop as a core component or enterprise data hub within a symbiotic and interconnected big data ecosystem; integrating with existing relational data warehouse(s), data mart(s), and analytic systems, and supporting a wide range of user groups with different needs, skill sets, and workloads.

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Big data basics for tech beginners

Dataconomy

Despite big data currently ranking among top business intelligence and data analytics trends, businesses continue to suffer from a lack of data-savvy talent. Research from BARC shows half of respondents reporting a lack of analytical or technical know-how for big data analytics.

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The 7 Stages Of Big Data Analytics That Every CIO Needs To Know About

The Accidental Successful CIO

CIOs need to learn how to ride the tsunami of big data Image Credit. CIOs have always had to find ways to deal with data. The arrival of the era of Big Data has almost overnight turned what was already a challenging task into a nearly impossible task. The Seven Steps To Getting Value Out Of Your Big Data.

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