Articles
Channel: Analytics (page 6)
-
Data Scientists vs. BI Analysts: What's the Difference?
Business intelligence and data science often go hand in hand. Both fields focus on deriving business insights from data, yet data scientists are regularly touted as the unicorns of big data analysis.
Continue reading...
-
6-Steps to a Better Business Intelligence Strategy
Disruption, then wider adoption: that's the result when Moore's Law meets business intelligence (BI). As BI implementations drop in cost, enterprises increasingly rely on homebrewed BI solutions for internal use. As a result, today's companies are confidently pursuing data driven decisions at a fraction of yesteryear's BI budget.
Continue reading...
-
Oracle Team USA Credits Data & Analytics for America's Cup Success #OOW16
SAN FRANCISCO — One of the most high-profile spots you’ll find the Oracle logo is on the sailing vessels that compete in the America’s Cup.
Continue reading...
-
Choosing a Data Analytics Solution: Which One is Right For You?
The data analytics marketplace can at times look like an obstacle course. With so many vendors claiming to have the right tool for the right problem — which is nearly every problem — it can get noisy and confusing.
Continue reading...
-
Teradata Promises to Better Serve its Customers #TDPARTNERS16
ATLANTA — It's not every day that a CEO publicly admits mistakes. But that's exactly what Teradata President and CEO Victor Lund did here yesterday at his company's annual user conference. During a keynote at the Teradata Partners Conference, Lund admitted the company has made mistakes.
Continue reading...
-
Do You Have the Skills it Takes to Be a Data Scientist?
What does it mean to have the sexiest job du jour? As a data scientist in Silicon Valley, I get asked that (or a similar) question frequently. The data science field has received a great deal of attention in the past few years. Harvard Business Review called data science the
Continue reading...
-
Salesforce Extends Wave Analytics Apps to Financial Services, B2B Marketers
Salesforce wants to put the powers of a data scientist into everyone’s hands — and it's doing so by expanding its Wave Analytics portfolio.
Continue reading...
-
SAP Unleashes SAP BW/4HANA, a Data Warehouse for the Digital Era
We've all heard the superlative laden pitches: the spiels from big shot tech executives who promise that their products can deliver rich, live, real-time, data-driven insights at the speed of business. But like all things too good to be true, the promises usually are.
Continue reading...
-
How To Use Analytic Alerts to Improve E-Commerce Sales
Your smartphone receives push notifications from apps of all sorts. So shouldn't you get similar notifications when monitoring e-commerce activity? If you answered "especially in regard to analytics," then you deserve to be at the head of the class.
Continue reading...
-
Tableau Shake-Up: Co-Founder Cedes CEO Spot to Ex-Amazon Exec
Tableau stock is soaring today, thanks to the Seattle-based company's decision to hire Amazon Web Services (AWS) executive Adam Selipsky as its new CEO. Selipsky's appointment was announced yesterday. He replaces Tableau Software co-founder Christian Chabot, who will remain company chairman.
Continue reading...
-
What Your BI Dashboard Isn't Telling You
Business intelligence and analytics dashboards are valuable tools that have long helped businesses monitor their performance.
Continue reading...
-
Buy and Build Your Way to a Modern Business Analytics Platform
It wasn't too long ago when business users struggled to answer simple questions like, “Who are my top 10 customers? Who are my top five suppliers? Are people opening and reading our email campaigns?” As recently as the early 2000s those questions were nearly impossible to answer.
Continue reading...
-
SnapLogic Adds More Intelligent Data Connectors to its Library of Snaps
Despite all of the big data hype and an ever-emerging slew of analytics tools, enterprises are leveraging only a fraction of the information that’s available. Much of the data is trapped in silos — everything from disparate on-premises systems to myriad cloud applications.
Continue reading...
-
Salesforce Acquires BeyondCore to Plug Analytics Gaps, Boost AI
If you’re a smart technology provider, you give your customers a vast selection of tools to get their jobs done. Forward-thinking vendors do this through partnerships and integrations with best-in-class providers — and, often, through acquisition of best-in-class providers themselves.
Continue reading...
