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Are You a Self-Learning Enterprise?
Self-learning enterprises use data to put them at an advantage over their competition.
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How to Differentiate Machine Learning From Dressed-up BI
Sometimes it's machine learning and sometimes it's a rules-based engine. Here's how to tell the difference.
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Tableau Reveals 4 New Features to Open Up and Speed Data Visualization
LAS VEGAS — Fourteen thousand data enthusiasts descended on Tableau Conference 2017 in Las Vegas this week to grow their wrangling skills, engage with Tableau Zen Masters and compete in Iron Viz, Iron Chef-like competitions where contestants start with the same data sets and work to build the coolest visualizations.
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Looker Unveils An Amped Up Looker 5 at JOIN 2017
When Looker opens its annual user conference JOIN 2017 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater in San Francisco today, 700 business intelligence (BI) enthusiasts will be in attendance to see what the latest version of the data platform, Looker 5, contains.
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Forrester Raises the Bar for Enterprise BI Platforms With Latest Wave
Take most of what you've read about ranking enterprise business intelligence (BI) platforms and set it aside. Forrester Research introduced new criteria to select its leaders for its latest Enterprise BI Platforms With Majority On-Premises Deployments Wave.
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Tableau Acquires ClearGraph to Raise Augmented Intelligence Play
Tableau, a Seattle-based business intelligence and analytics provider, announced this morning that it has acquired ClearGraph. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., ClearGraph provides smart data discovery and data analysis natural language query solutions. The purchase price has not been disclosed.
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Microsoft Power BI Premium Delivers Business Intelligence with Muscle
Microsoft announced the general availability of Power BI Premium at its Microsoft Data Insights Summit, which took place June 12 to 13 in Seattle. Power BI will now work with nearly all Microsoft applications and is also embeddable with a number of third-party applications.
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Put Business Intelligence in Employees' Hands With Shared Libraries
In a data-driven organization, self-service business intelligence (BI) and analytics hold the key to empowering more people across your organization to make better decisions.
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Democratizing BI to Give SMBs Access to Complex Data Analytics
Business intelligence has earned itself a snobby reputation. For non-enterprise organizations or — in my case — as a marketer, that reputation has led to both technophobia as well as an aversion to big data.
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Are You Ready for These Big Data Trends?
2017 will see some major changes in the big data ecosystem, driven in part by two trends. Both trends offer opportunities for data-driven organizations to stay ahead of the curve — but only if they take the time to do some preparation now. 1. Hadoop Gets Put to the Test – Here's How to Help It Pass Apache Hadoop distribution vendors have crossed the
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How to Get the Most out of Power BI
Management consultant Peter Drucker once said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it.” This statement has never been more relevant. Businesses have access to unprecedented amounts of data, but all that data means nothing unless they can turn it into insights.
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Why Content Analytics Still Hasn't Hit the Big Time
How many organizations know what content they have, let alone how it's used and in what context? Content analytics (CA) applications were introduced as a means to provide that information. Content analytics applies business intelligence (BI) and business analytics practices to uncover usage patterns in enterprise content.
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Overcome the Data Analytics Skills Gap with Citizen Analysts
Data's unprecedented growth, both internally and externally, has made it impossible for modern organizations to rely solely on specialists to solve all their data analytics needs.
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Birst 6 Introduces Machine Learning to Its Networked BI Platform
San Francisco-based Birst today unveiled what it's calling its biggest software release to date, Birst 6.0.
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