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Data quality management and governance
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Business performance management 14 years on: still chasing the real-time dream
Freeform Dynamics 14 Jan 2021As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a regular stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives. “Continuous innovation and real-time steering are needed in the ...
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Exploiting enhanced data management to create value in the ‘new normal’
Business Applications Editor 29 Sep 2020This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Vice President, Global Digital Solutions, EMEA, Iron Mountain. COVID-19 has turned businesses and economies upside down, changing the world irrevocably. ...
This is a guest blogpost by Matt Jones, Lead Analytics Strategist at Tessella. From drug design to supply chains, predictive algorithms built using yesterday’s data no longer work in our strange ...
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Business, data and analytics strategies – connecting the dots or just collecting?
Business Applications Editor 07 Oct 2019This is a guest blogpost by Michael Corcoran, senior vice president at Information Builders (www.informationbuilders.com). Speaking at our Information Builders' Summit, IDC Group vice president, ...
This is a guest blogpost by Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer, Tableau Data analysis is only as good as the quality of your data. Anyone who has ever analysed data knows that the information ...
This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j co-founder and CEO Emil Eifrem, who explains why his sector needs its own ‘General Query Language’. In the same way that SQL helped facilitate the growth and ...
But what do people mean when they talk about cloud storage – and do they really know what it can do these days? Not so long ago, once you got beyond Dropbox, for most professional users cloud ...
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Why GDPR provides the opportunity for greater data collaboration
Business Applications Editor 09 Apr 2018This is a guest blogpost by Jim Conning, Managing Director of Royal Mail Data Services (RMDS). The forthcoming 25 May implementation date for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is ...
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Where are security and data governance in IoT?
Freeform Dynamics 22 Feb 2018IoT Back to Basics, chapter 3: It’s no surprise that security and governance are important considerations when it comes to the IoT, but quite how incredibly important they are may not be ...
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Three things learning providers can glean from the private sector
Business Applications Editor 21 Dec 2017This is a guest blog by Jayne Wilcock, curriculum and data manager at East Riding of Yorkshire Council ‘Technology gives the quietest student a voice’ and few would argue ...
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GDPR means businesses must show they are serious about cloud data privacy
Business Applications Editor 20 Nov 2017This is a guest blogpost by Julian Box, CEO, Calligo. The prospect of ambulance-chasing lawyers interesting themselves in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now very real. With just a ...
As a central bank, industry developer and regulator, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) relies on a broad set of transactional, behavioural and social media data to craft policies and drive ...
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Infostretch QMetry: Agile dev needs to ‘shift left’ & love test management
28 Jun 2016Infostretch has launched QMetry Test Manager for JIRA on the Atlassian Marketplace. The company itself is a Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Development methodologies software application ...
Debate and discussion around data management, analytics, BI and information governance.
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Clearing blurred lines around real-time analytics
Business Applications Editor 15 Apr 2016This is a guest blog post by Martin Willcox, director of big data, Teradata Today's increasingly crowded and competitive business environment has led to an explosion in the popularity of real-time ...
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Beyond keywords: bringing initiative to enterprise search
Business Applications Editor 07 Apr 2016This is a guest blogpost by Jarred McGinnis, UK managing consultant of Ontotext, which explores the interdependency of business intelligence and enterprise-strength semantic search. Business ...
This is a guest blogpost by Alex Bordei, head of product management, Bigstep In today's fast-paced business landscape, experimentation is key when it comes to innovation and gaining and maintaining ...
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Data workers and the necessity for the self-service analytics revolution
Business Applications Editor 04 Apr 2016This is a guest blogpost by George Mathew, president & COO, Alteryx In recent years, we've seen a trend line for data volumes and velocity to go up, and to the right. This continued growth has ...
This is a guest blogpost by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist, QlikWhen we design a Qlik app, does its aesthetic quality influence how much credence people give to the analysis it ...
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Has the Google flu trends misstep derailed big data analytics?
Business Applications Editor 16 Mar 2016This is a guest blogpost by Martin Willcox, director, Big Data (International) at TeradataWhile it's not particularly breaking news - unless you've recently emerged from some isolated cave - the ...
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Without CRM, IoT is just sound and fury, signifying little
Business Applications Editor 14 Mar 2016This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM In a world in which Samsung has launched a refrigerator that connects via a mass-market IoT (Internet of Things) hub to your smartphone ...
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Why and how: communicating data for humans not analysts
Business Applications Editor 03 Mar 2016This is a guest blog post by Paul Joyce, CEO of Geckoboard The vast majority of businesses today buy into the value of data. Whether it is driving innovation within an organisation or providing ...
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Search-driven Business Intelligence: intelligence for a customer-centric business world
Business Applications Editor 24 Feb 2016This is a guest blogpost by Daniel Fallmann, CEO at Mindbreeze Irrespective of whether a company wants to boost its customer service efforts, intensify the efficiency of its marketing activities, ...
A guest blogpost by Matt Davies, head of marketing, EMEA, Splunk No matter the size, industry, or geographical location of an enterprise, it will have a cloud strategy. But despite this, when it ...
Raymie Stata, the chief executive and co-founder of Altiscale, and a former chief technology officer at Yahoo, had some reflections on the first ten years of Hadoop when he spoke to me on the phone ...
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Data democratization in the age of big data: why data lakes won't work
Business Applications Editor 19 Feb 2016This is a guest blogpost by Ravi Shankar, chief marketing officer at Denodo I predict that 2016 is going to be the year that data is finally liberated. Data, at long last, is going to be ...
This is a guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop's becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum ...
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Honey, I split the universe -- quantum physics and BI
Business Applications Editor 20 Jan 2016This a guest blogpost by James Richardson, business analytics strategist, Qlik I find solace in the many worlds interpretation (MWI) of reality. In layman's terms, the idea, first proposed by ...
This is a guest post by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, Splunk As is the way, it is time for looking forward to 2016 technology and predictions as to how IT and business will evolve over the ...
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Smart fraud detection needs a fresh data approach
Business Applications Editor 11 Jan 2016In a guest blogpost, Emil Eifrem of Neo Technology says graph databases detect sophisticated scams and fraud rings in real timeBefore PayPal came along, online commerce was fraught with security ...
This is a guest blogpost by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM It's that time again: prediction season. Many predictions have been made by the global research and intelligence companies. Gartner has ...
This is a guest blogpost by Dr. Thore Rabe, vice-president Europe, Middle East, Africa - Isilon Division at EMC It is now well known that the digital universe, which comprises most businesses' data ...
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Panning for gold - the data we know and use and the data we don't
Business Applications Editor 17 Dec 2015This is a guest blogpost by Matt Davies, technical evangelist, SplunkThey say you don't know what you don't know. It's the same with your data. Most organisations have data they know about, collect ...
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Sentiment analysis with Hadoop: 5 steps towards becoming a mind reader
Business Applications Editor 11 Dec 2015This is a guest blogpost by Andy Leaver, vice president of international operations, Hortonworks Mass advertising and campaign marketing are like the dodgy lettuce found somewhere at the back of ...
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Five years: top ten speculations for the future of BI
Business Applications Editor 10 Dec 2015This is a guest blog post by James Richardson, Business Analytics Strategist at Qlik. In it, he speculates on what the analytics future may look like by 2021 (just don't hold him to it!) At this ...
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How data has fueled the evolution of enterprise software
Business Applications Editor 27 Nov 2015This is a guest blogpost by Dave Elkington, CEO, Insidesales.com The phrase "predictive analytics" has become a trendy buzzword that seems to show up in every investor pitch in order to elicit ...
This is a guest blogpost by Oleg Rogynskyy, VP of Marketing & Growth, H2O.ai Before the emergence of today's massive data sets, organisations primarily stored their data in relational databases ...
This is a guest blog by Larry Augustin, CEO, SugarCRM The recent cyber-attack on broadband company TalkTalk proved that while not securing your own data can be embarrassing, failing to secure the ...
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Big data is sword of truth for disruptor brands
Business Applications Editor 12 Nov 2015This is a guest blogpost by Bill Wilkins, CIO/CTO, First Utility Despite the energy industry being data-rich, the quality of its data has always been extremely poor, its systems archaic. Customers ...
This is a guest blog post by Laurie Miles, head of analytics, SAS UK & Ireland If I were to believe the feedback I get, statisticians are among the most difficult people to work with. What's ...
At this year's Sapphire, I was part of a group of journalists from outside the US who interviewed Bill McDermott, chief executive officer of SAP.At the end of the interview he gave each of us a ...
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Smart cities and the IoT - not just a load of rubbish
Business Applications Editor 04 Sep 2015This is a guest post by David Socha, utilities practice leader, Teradata What really makes a city smart? Because from my perspective, Smart Parking, Smart Homes, Smart Lighting and the like are ...
This is a guest blogpost by Mike Weston, CEO of data science consultancy Profusion, in which he discusses supercomputing and its implications for data science. We are all creating data. A lot of ...
This is a guest blogpost by Suresh Sathyamurthy, senior director, emerging technologies, EMC Data lakes have arrived, greeted by the tech world with a mix of scepticism and enthusiasm. In the ...
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App-based approach key to achieving efficient self-service Business Intelligence (BI)
Business Applications Editor 28 Jul 2015This is a guest blog by Sylvain Pavlowski, senior vice president of European Sales at Information Builders As workers and business units clamour for more control over data analysis to gain insights ...
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Understanding data: the difference between leaders and followers
Business Applications Editor 23 Jul 2015A guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo Technology.Data is vital to running an efficient enterprise. We can all agree on that.Of course, from there, thoughts and opinions differ widely, and ...
Data is not really perfectible and ultimately, perfection is the enemy of progress, writes James Richardson, business analytics strategist at Qlik and former Gartner analyst, in a guest blog. Ask ...
This is a guest blogpost by Glen Rabie, CEO, Yellowfin. The role of collaboration in decision-making has been a question for academics and business leaders since modern business began. In fact, ...
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Alan Turing Institute head Howard Covington has opportunity to boost UK economy
Business Applications Editor 19 Jun 2015This is a guest blog by David Richards, President, co-founder and CEO of WANdisco Alan Turing may not have known it at the time, but he was one of the first pioneers of the data science industry. ...
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Dave Goldberg: on history, Silicon Valley, failure as a virtue, and London as a technology hub
Business Applications Editor 15 Jun 2015Dave Goldberg, who died in May 2015, was someone I was looking forward to talking with more about the history and significance of Silicon Valley; and about the attempt to emulate its success of ...
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Different horses for different courses: NoSQL and what your business needs
Business Applications Editor 21 May 2015This is a guest post by Manu Marchal, managing director EMEA at Basho Technologies While the importance of distributed databases has become more apparent for a large number of businesses, with more ...
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The growing importance of customer data governance
Business Applications Editor 21 May 2015This is a guest post by Sid Banerjee, CEO, Clarabridge We are living in the "age of the customer," as Forrester Research recently dubbed it. There are more and more communications channels -- from ...
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Hadoop - is the elephant packing its trunk for a trip into the mainstream?
Business Applications Editor 27 Apr 2015This is a guest blog by Zubin Dowlaty, head of innovation and development at Mu Sigma. Hadoop, the open-source software platform for distributed big data computing, has been making waves over the ...
This is a guest blog by James Richardson, business analytics strategist at Qlik and former Gartner analyst. England's dreaming ... By the mid-1970s rock music was dominated by "prog-rock" and long, ...
This is a guest blog by Michael Corcoran, SVP & CMO at Information Builders Having recently attended the Gartner BI and Master Data Management Summits in London, it is clear that now is an ...
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Open data and the horizon of the next government
Business Applications Editor 30 Mar 2015On the first official day of the general election campaign, it is opportune to pose the question of what the future of open data might be. The good news is the future of the movement to open up ...
This is a guest blog by James Richardson, business analytics strategist at Qlik, and former Gartner analyst So what happens now that data discovery is the "new normal"?* Well, I'm no prognosticator ...
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Avoiding the potholes on the way to cost effective MDM
Business Applications Editor 04 Mar 2015This is a guest blog by Mark Balkenende, a manager atTalend Master data management is one of those practices that everyone in business applauds. But anyone who has been exposed to the process ...
Last month the UK government's Competition and Markets authority issued a 'Call for information' on the 'commercial use of consumer data'. While data governance professionals have been taking ...
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What do businesses really look for in open data?
Business Applications Editor 26 Nov 2014This is a guest blog by Harvey Lewis, Deloitte "The value of an idea lies in the using of it." Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor. In 2015, the UK's primary open data portal, www.data.gov.uk, will ...
This is a guest blog by Jean Michel Franco, Talend Data quality follows the same principles as other well-defined, quality-related processes. It is all about creating an improvement cycle to define ...
This is a guest blog by Karthik Krishnamurthy, Global Business Leader for Enterprise Information Management, Cognizant While there is a huge amount written about data scientists, much less has been ...
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Preparation needs to start now for imminent European data protection changes
Business Applications Editor 18 Sep 2014This s a guest blog Mike Davis, author of a report published by AIIM. The forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) changes signal a major opportunity for cloud providers to ...
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Opportunities and challenges for data processing in the Internet of Things
Business Applications Editor 08 Sep 2014This is a guest blog by Michael Hausenblas, Chief Data Engineer at MapR Technologies. According to Gartner's Hype Cycle, the Internet of Things (IoT) is supposed to peak in 2014. This sounds like a ...
This is a guest blog by Allen Bonde, VP of product marketing and innovation, Actuate. In it he explains his view that we need to think 'small' when it comes to 'Big' Data. Big Data is big business. ...
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Andy Jennings, chief analytics officer, FICO on mainstreaming of big data
Business Applications Editor 20 Aug 20142014 has seen a steady move to the mainstream of the characteristic themes of the big data movement: ways and means of dealing with unstructured data; how to operationalize big data analytics; how ...
This essay is a guest blog by Yves de Montcheuil, Vice President of Marketing at Talend. Knowingly or not, many enterprises have embarked on a path to digitally transform their organisation. Also ...
This is a guest blog by Yves de Montcheuil, Vice President of Marketing at Talend. When big data was still in its infancy - or rather, before the term was minted - a population of statisticians ...
Imperial College, London has officially launched its Data Science Institute, announced last year. And the government has announced £42 funding for the Alan Turing Institute, location to be decided. ...
The automation of knowledge work featured in a McKinsey report last year as one of ten IT-enabled business trends for the decade ahead: 'advances in data analytics, low-cost computer power, machine ...