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Channel: Analytics (page 6)
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What Your BI Dashboard Isn't Telling You
Business intelligence and analytics dashboards are valuable tools that have long helped businesses monitor their performance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Using Analytics To Speed Up E-Commerce Revenue
The excitement of Walmart’s purchase of Jet.com is a real world reminder of why businesses love fast consumer sales online. And analytics have always been the core tool for ensuring that those purchases remain consistently convenient and speedy.
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The Trouble With Clicks: How to Look Past Them to Find Real Buyers
Machine learning and artificial intelligence have made huge strides in the recent past, from self-driving cars to Watson as Jeopardy champion to computers that can compose classical music and beat us at chess. But do any of these notable achievements mean that machines can anticipate our behavior online? Humans aren’t predictable. Not yet
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5 Embedded Analytics Trends to Watch
Data-driven decision making lies at the heart of departments across organizations. But to facilitate these decisions, analytics can no longer remain the purview of a small number of people who mete out reports as time allows — decision makers need direct access to analytics.
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