This is a complex, difficult, and expensive decision, and every one of your colleagues, friends, and relatives will have an opinion. So here’s a process that will help you make the right decision for your enterprise:
In today’s business world, risk, uncertainty and volatility are just par for the course.
Data Lakes are gaining popularity as a way to store massive amounts of information for big data and analytics applications. But how are data lakes built? Here are 10 requirements for success.
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You cannot solve problems with the same thinking that created them.
Researchers at Rice University have developed a big data technique that could have a significant impact on healthcare through “clustering” and the ability to reveal information in complex sets of data like electronic health records.
As organizations complete the latest wave of big data projects, plenty of opportunities and challenges remain.
It seems the Holy Grail for scorecards and dashboards seems to be organizations seeking to answer, “What should our key performance indicators (KPIs) be?”
Roughly 90% of CIO respondents feel that data is transforming the way they do business, with 92% suggesting that CDOs are best positioned to define data strategy and while also emerging as the guardian of data quality within an organization.
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Don’t get me wrong: there are lots of ways to skin the management reporting cat …
By clarifying the role of the accounting function, and establishing a strategy, it becomes more easily to identify its overall contribution to the organization. Objectives help managers to map this contribution, while KPIs keep them focused on what matters the most for the department.