I recently had an interesting discussion with Ravi Shankar, Director of Product Marketing at Siperian, about emerging best practices for enterprise-wide MDM initiatives. Siperian provides MDM hubs for large companies across a number of industries. …
Not everything is easy. I analyzed data for decision-making for many years using advanced techniques such as predictive modeling, machine learning and even influence diagrams. With the rush to pervasive BI we often forget about…
I was talking to an old friend the other day who is involved in using the results of research to help grow a business. He told me some interesting stories that made me revisit some…
Robin Bloor and I were briefed by SAS about some of its visualization technologies last week as part of the research we’re undertaking in innovations in BI. SAS has thought a lot about visualization. In…
I’ve never been a fan of the data cube. In fact, I’ve always disliked it because it seems so constraining. I don’t want to be chained to a certain thought process when I’m analyzing data.…
I was thinking about Master Data Management (MDM) last night. There’s been a lot of hype over the past few years about MDM. At its simplest level, MDM is about handling common data, such as…
A wise man once told me, “Look at the data. What are the data telling you?” That was my dissertation advisor, some twenty years ago, before the term data visualization was even coined. And that’s…
When most people think “analytical application” they think “classic BI” or “predictive modeling.” That’s no longer accurate. The very nature of analytical applications is changing. Text analytics brings unstructured information into the equation. Visualization changes…
Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge, told me about Clarabridge’s recently announced partnership with CallMiner. It is a marriage of text analytics with speech analytics, and hence it should attract the attention of the big call…