The Predictive Analytics Conundrum
TDWI research indicates that if users stuck to their plans around predictive analytics, adoption would be at 75–80% versus the 35–40% we currently see. Predictive analytics is on the cusp of widespread adoption.…
You guessed it – women still earn less in IT than men
Since joining TDWI about six years ago, I have been following and reporting on our salary survey. The report quantifies and interprets the compensation, roles, responsibilities, skills, and experience of individual BI and IT professionals.…
3 Best Practices for Becoming More Self-Sufficient with Self-Service Analytics
My colleague Dave Stodder and I recently lead a Webinar in conjunction with our best practices report about becoming a data-driven organization. Audience questions included several about self-service. In particular, attendees were interested in how…
Advanced Analytics: What’s Ahead for 2018
2018 will be the year of the three As: AI, Automation, and Advancing analytics skills In 2017, advanced analytics maintained its momentum in the enterprise. Open source technologies such R and Python gained ground. Other…
Three Organizational Best Practices for Becoming Data-Driven
Dave Stodder and I just finished writing our 4Q Best Practices Report on “What it Takes to Be Data-Driven: Technologies and Practices for Becoming a Smarter Organization.” What struck me in analyzing the data for…
Does Gender Matter in BI Salaries?
As a female and a feminist who has worked in male-dominated fields for most of my career, what immediately caught my eye when reading the most recent TDWI Salary Survey report was the on-going pay…
Achieving Analytics Maturity: 3 Tips from the experts
What does it take to achieve analytics maturity? Earlier this week, Dave Stodder and I hosted a webcast with a panel of vendor experts from Cloudera, Microstrategy, and Tableau. These three companies are all sponsors…
Next-Generation Analytics: Four Findings from TDWI’s Latest Best Practices Report
I recently completed TDWI’s latest Best Practices Report: Next Generation Analytics and Platforms for Business Success. Although the phrase “next-generation analytics and platforms” can evoke images of machine learning, big data, Hadoop, and the Internet…
Six skills for predictive analytics
Today, I participated in a webinar with Actuate on the skills needed for business analysts to perform predictive modeling. This is a hot topic and there were hundreds of participants on the call. In my part…
Four ways to illustrate the value of predictive analytics
My new (and first!) TDWI Best Practices Report was published a few weeks ago. It is called Predictive Analytics for Business Advantage. In it, I use the results from an online survey together with some qualitative…