I attended EMC’s User Conference last week in Las Vegas. The theme of the event was Big Data meets the Cloud. So, what’s going on with Big Data and EMC? Does this new strategy make sense? EMC acquired Greenplum in 2010. At the time EMC described Greenplum as a “shared nothing, massively parallel processing (MPP)… Continue reading EMC and Big Data- Observations from EMC World 2011
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Four Findings from the Hurwitz & Associates Advanced Analytics Survey
Hurwitz & Associates conducted an online survey on advanced analytics in January 2011. Over 160 companies across a range of industries and company size participated in the survey. The goal of the survey was to understand how companies are using advanced analytics today and what their plans are for the future. Specific topics included: -… Continue reading Four Findings from the Hurwitz & Associates Advanced Analytics Survey
Five Analytics Predictions for 2011
In 2011 analytics will take center stage as a key trend because companies are at a tipping point with the volume of data they have and their urgent need to do something about it. So, with 2010 now past and 2011 to look forward to, I wanted to take the opportunity to submit my predictions… Continue reading Five Analytics Predictions for 2011
What is advanced analytics?
There has been a lot of discussion recently around advanced analytics. I'd like to throw my definition into the rink. I spent many years at Bell Laboratories in the late 1980s and 1990s deploying what I would call advanced analytics. This included utilizing statistical and mathematical models to understand customer behavior, predict retention, or analyze… Continue reading What is advanced analytics?
Advanced Analytics and the skills needed to make it happen: Takeaways from IBM IOD
Advanced Analytics was a big topic at the IBM IOD conference last week. As part of this, predictive analytics was again an important piece of the story along with other advanced analytics capabilities IBM has developed or is in the process of developing to support optimization. These include Big Insights (for big data), analyzing data… Continue reading Advanced Analytics and the skills needed to make it happen: Takeaways from IBM IOD
Who is using advanced analytics?
Advanced analytics is currently a hot topic among businesses, but who is actually using it and why? What are the challenges and benefits to those companies that are using advanced analytics? And, what is keeping some companies from exploring this technology? Hurwitz & Associates would like your help in answering a short (5 min) survey… Continue reading Who is using advanced analytics?
Analyzing Big Data
The term “Big Data” has gained popularity over the past 12-24 months as a) amounts of data available to companies continually increase and b) technologies have emerged to more effectively manage this data. Of course, large volumes of data have been around for a long time. For example, I worked in the telecommunications industry for… Continue reading Analyzing Big Data
Five requirements for Advanced Analytics
The other day I was looking at the analytics discussion board that I moderate on the Information Management site. I had posted a topic entitled “the value of advanced analytics.” I noticed that the number of views on this topic was at least 3 times as many as on other topics that had been posted… Continue reading Five requirements for Advanced Analytics
Metrics Matter
I had a very interesting conversation last week with Dyke Hensen, SVP of Product Strategy for PivotLink. For those of you not familiar with PivotLink, the company is a SaaS BI provider that has been in business for about 10 years (before the term SaaS became popular). Historically, the company has worked with small to… Continue reading Metrics Matter
Social Network Analysis: What is it and why should we care?
When most people think of social networks they think of Facebook and Twitter, but social network analysis has its roots in psychology, sociology, anthropology and math (see Scott, John Social Network Analysis for more details). The phrase has a number of different definitions, depending on the discipline you’re interested in, but for the purposes of… Continue reading Social Network Analysis: What is it and why should we care?
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