BI professionals spend a significant portion of their time trying to instill the discipline of data-driven performance management into their business partners. However, isn’t there something wrong with teaching someone else to fly when you’re still learning to walk?
The number of users is the most trusted currency in the cloud. You know that if people pay for a service, then it’s providing something of value. And it gives you an opportunity to understand how people are using the software, see trends, gather benchmark information and turn this into advice and best practices in cloud solutions. This is something we’ve already done with our cloud solutions, and we have created innovative service offerings around best-practice co-innovated with customers and partners, such as social selling, collaborative onboarding, and learning.
By Timo Elliott, from: http://timoelliott.com/blog/analytics-cartoons
What are some of the key database trends?
First, the movement to in-memory platforms, as evidenced by everybody trying to catch up with SAP HANA. IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft are all adding in-memory options on top of their existing databases.
Second…
The desire to deliver a world-class fan experience may not be found in data, but a world-class fan experience almost always starts with decisions born out of data.
There are two schools of thought in sports and entertainment. One holds that winning rids all sins. This may be true to a degree. Winning is one measurement that counts most insports. The other says that fan experience is the ultimate measure of success, especially in the absence of a championship.
Fan experience matters because it is the fire that ignites fan engagement!
But what does “fan experience” really mean?
My favorite definition of ‘Dark Data’ comes from Matt Aslett of 451 Research:
“Data that was previously ignored because of technology limitations”
I’ve recently talked to several big, traditional organizations that are finding lots of dark data down in the cellar.
By Timo Elliott, from: http://timoelliott.com/blog/analytics-cartoons
Business intelligence (BI) is everywhere. It’s more accessible. It’s mobile. It’s in the cloud. It runs in real time. It’s part of “Big Data” and small data. Simply put, BI surfaces, in one shape or another, in a tangled, twisted, and integrated way everywhere in our everyday lives. In this new series, I want to take a…
Even in their most optimistic moments, business and IT executives will confess that there are two things that consistently undermine their confidence in their organization’s ability to execute a business strategy: - Not having access to all the relevant facts needed to make the right decision, and - By the time the organization actually can execute that…