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How to Lie with Data

How to Lie with Data

By Paul Miller on June 30, 2014

Back in the early Nineties, I was working on a Ph.D applying a tool called a Geographic Information System (GIS) to the challenge of modelling archaeological deposits under cities. For those of us worrying about these things, Mark Monmonier‘s then-newly published first edition of How to Lie with Maps was required reading. It wasn’t so much a handbook […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, Business Intelligence, Chart, Data analysis, data science, Edward Tufte, Geographic Information System, graph, Linked Data, Map, Mark Monmonier, open data, visualisation

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

Microsoft Corporate Vice President Quentin Clark discusses data, data platforms, and more

By Paul Miller on April 2, 2014

The Data Platform Group at Microsoft does a lot, from SQL Server and their Hadoopey HDInsight offering through to Business Intelligence and analytics capabilities which sit in or on top of the humble Excel spreadsheet. I’ve touched upon pieces of this whole before, in a 2009 podcast on Azure with Amitabh Srivastava (then Corporate VP […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged azure data market, BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data markets, data platform group, Enterprise Computing, excel, microsoft, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft SQL Server, open data, Podcast, quentin clark, sql server

Teradata Labs President Scott Gnau discusses the evolving data analytics market

Teradata Labs President Scott Gnau discusses the evolving data analytics market

By Paul Miller on March 7, 2014

With all the noise around newer technologies such as Hadoop, it would be easy to assume that the data analytics space is new — and totally dominated by the NewSQL/ NoSQL tools pouring out of the world’s startups. It would be easy. But it would also be wrong. Data analytics, business intelligence, and related ideas are not new. […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apache Hadoop, big data, Business Intelligence, Data analysis, data analytics, Enterprise Computing, hadoop, Podcast, Scott Gnau, Teradata, Teradata Labs | 1 Response

Chasing That Killer Application Of Big Data

Chasing That Killer Application Of Big Data

By Chirag Mehta on August 2, 2013

I often get asked, “what is the killer application of Big Data?” Unfortunately, the answer is not that simple. In the early days of enterprise software, it was the automation that fueled the growth of enterprise applications. The vendors that eventually managed to stay in business and got bigger were/are the ones that expanded their […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged BI, big data, Business Intelligence, Business process, Data Warehousing, enterprise software

Seeking Simplicity’s Sweet Spot

Seeking Simplicity’s Sweet Spot

By Paul Miller on May 10, 2013

Albert Einstein, you may have heard, was a clever man. He scribbled equations on blackboards, thought big thoughts, and all of that. But, allegedly, he also said Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. These words have resonated with me recently, as I’ve heard pitches from one company after another, all […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Albert Einstein, Analytics, BI, big data, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data, Data analysis, data science, data scientist, Datahero, interpretation, open data, user interface, visualisation, Visualization | 2 Responses

Justifying Big Data Investment

Justifying Big Data Investment

By Chirag Mehta on May 1, 2013

Traditionally companies invest into software that has been proven to meet their needs and has a clear ROI. This model falls apart when disruptive technology such as Big Data comes around. Most CIOs have started to hear about Big Data and based on their…

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, bigdata, Business Intelligence, cloud computing | 1 Response

Visualisation – the key that unlocks data’s value?

Visualisation – the key that unlocks data’s value?

By Paul Miller on April 29, 2013

As the Big Data hype machine continues its relentless attempt to gobble everything in its path, new business units and entire new domains buying into the promise find themselves faced with unanticipated data volume and complexity. They see the potential for data-based decision making, but still face (short-term?) challenges in actually managing, analysing or interpreting […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged BI, big data, Business Intelligence, Data analysis, data mining, data science, data scientist, data visualisation, data visualization, hadoop, infer, open data, rosslyn Analytics, Vik Singh | 1 Response

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

Indicee Launches Analytics for Chatter

By Ben Kepes on August 29, 2012

I’ve been using Salesforce Chatter for a few years now, I’ve also used other so-called enterprise social tools – Yammer and Socialcast for instance. While these tools are useful for small teams directly engaged in projects, it has always struck me that there is a lot of value left on the table when it comes […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged appexchange, Business Intelligence, databases, Indicee, salesforce chatter, salesforce.com, Social Enterprise, yammer

Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

Big Data–Over Hyped Buzzword or Enterprise Focus?

By Ben Kepes on August 15, 2012

Of all the myriad of terms that the tech industry throws around at the moment, none is as often subverted for marketing spin as “big data”. So much so that few people can actually agree on what big data is. For me, I’ll revert to Wikipediaand it’s definition which states; big data is a collection […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Apache Hadoop, big data, bigdata, Business Intelligence, Data warehouse, mapreduce, rainstor, sql, wikipedia | 2 Responses

Day #2 => Cloud Expo, A Few Pictures & Associated Thoughts

Day #2 => Cloud Expo, A Few Pictures & Associated Thoughts

By Adron Hall on June 13, 2012

This first one is of Effective UI a company out of Denver, Colorado. You’re probably asking yourself, why are they at a cloud conference? I asked the same question and they brought up a really good point. Most cloud computing interfaces are horrible. I have to agree, most are or at least have been pretty […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged BI, Business Intelligence, cloud, cloud computing, cloud expo, conferences, jaspersoft, linux, suse, SUSE Linux, windows azure | 1 Response

Does Your Organization Face Data Obesity Problem?

Does Your Organization Face Data Obesity Problem?

By Krishnan Subramanian on April 27, 2012

Recently, I wrote a report for GigaOm Pro (behind Paywall) commemorating their Structure:Big Data conference and introduced a term which is going to hurt many organizations in a big way in the near future. I thought I will write about it here and get the thoughts of practitioners and vendors on the problem. In the world […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, bigdata, Business Intelligence, data governance, data mining, data obesity, Data Warehousing, Enterprise, governance, insights, obesity | 1 Response

4 Big Data Myths - Part II

4 Big Data Myths – Part II

By Chirag Mehta on April 18, 2012

This is the second and the last part of this two-post series blog post on Big Data myths. If you haven’t read the first part, check it out here. Myth # 2: Big Data is an old wine in new bottle I hear people say, “Oh, that Big Data, we used to call it BI.” One […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged BI, big data, bigdata, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, data mining, data scientist, Data Warehousing, databases, hadoop, social media, sql

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Big Data needs Big Collection and Big Execution

By Martijn Linssen on December 4, 2011

Big Data is the new buzz it seems, and I must say I have been sceptic of it since I first saw the very word – or phrase, what is it? As an IT architect, I’ve always equaled data to databases, and information to applications – and knowledge to the people on top of these […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged 1.0, bigdata, Business Intelligence, cloud computing, Data quality, Data Warehousing, database, Don Quixote, edi, hadoop, knowledge, messaging, standardisation, Supply Chain, wikipedia | 1 Response

Modern Day Enterprise Software: Workday Example

Modern Day Enterprise Software: Workday Example

By Krishnan Subramanian on August 16, 2011

Even before cloud computing became the household name, enterprise software industry has started seeing disruption. Even though legacy software still holds enterprise market to ransom, companies like Salesforce.com, Workday, Netsuite, Google, etc. are carving out a path towards the modern day enterprise software. From my point of view, any modern enterprise software should offer social […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged Analytics, android, Blackberry, business analytics, Business Intelligence, embedded intelligence, ensw, enterprise 2.0, enterprise software, HCM, hr, insights, iOS, Mobile Enterprise, smartphones, tablets, workday

Customer Focus: the Constellation Supernova Awards

Customer Focus: the Constellation Supernova Awards

By Zoli Erdos on June 6, 2011

Constellation Research, founded by fellow Enterprise Irregular and star analyst Ray Wang has just announced the  ambitious Supernova Awards program, focusing on – what a twist! – customer champions of innovation, rather than vendors. Krish and I both feel honored to have been invited as Judges for the Cloud Computing category. Below is the official […]

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