7 Interesting Big Data and Analytics Trends for 2015
Arthur C. Clark famously said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clark famously said that “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
So top of the resolution list in 2015 for companies is to end data integration method referred to as “sneakerware”. So what is sneakerware?
Rolling Forecasts and Driver-Based Planning are management approaches that …
When a small business owner needs advice about running the business or strategizing on financial matters, one would think that the business owner would engage their accountant in the discussion. Following along with that logic,
HTAP stands for Hybrid Transaction / Analytical Processing — and it’s the future of business applications. The term was coined in early 2014 by analyst firm Gartner to describe a new generation of in-memory data platforms that can perform both online transaction processing (OLTP) and online analytical processing (OLAP) without requiring data duplication. For the…
There is a game that used to be popular in arcades called “Whack-a-mole”. The game was pretty simple in concept, you have an enormous (soft) hammer, and there are 7 or 8 moles (small rodents) that popped up one at a time and you had to hit them. As you hit one, another popped up. So you never actually solved your fake rodent problem - as soon as you solved the one, another popped up.
I recently presented at an analytics conference where a speaker in one of the customer marketing tracks said something that stimulated my thinking. He said, “Just because something is shiny and new or is now the ‘in’ thing, it doesn’t mean it works for everyone.” His statement got me thinking about some of the new…
Finance teams are just as likely to be involved in such areas as IT development, cyber-security and strategic business planning as they are in more traditional areas, such as accounting and financial reporting.
An interesting white paper came across my desk the other day. Authored by another Corporate Performance Management (CPM) provider, the paper dismisses cloud-based applications as a fad, part of a hype cycle generated by analysts, investors, and “the media.” Almost like a conspiracy theory….
A couple of months ago, one of my partners sent me a link to an interesting blog post by Cloudera Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Mike Olson. Olson’s article had to do with the emergence of Apache Spark as the preferred analytics development platform for Hadoop.