Category: Business Analysis

December 22, 2020

Many CIOs and other executives are finding ways to capitalize on insights gained from their data – using analytics to evaluate risk, make better decisions, or engage more effectively with customers. Yet, does data analytics really give companies a big […]

December 18, 2020

In the article 5 Signs Your Dashboard Needs An Update, I discussed how a dashboard becomes outdated. I raised the questions that a dashboard should generate among a team, such as “Is the comparison relevant?” “Are our ideas still being […]

December 2, 2020

Running Carhartt’s 125-130-person IT department is just one of the hats that John Hill wears. Unlike many of his IT peers, the CIO and Senior VP also oversees all aspects of the company’s planning operations, including demand, channel, assortment, and […]

November 30, 2020

DataOps (data operations) is an agile, process-oriented methodology for developing and delivering analytics. It brings together DevOps teams with data engineers and data scientists to provide the tools, processes and organizational structures to support the data-focused enterprise. Michele Goetz, vice […]

October 21, 2020

I’m an engineer by training. A numbers guy. A data geek. I spend my time talking with engineers and businesspeople about systems architecture, ROI, cloud computing, microservices, market share, and finance. I also think a lot about love. Hear me […]

October 8, 2020

Many organizations have merged the roles of the chief analytics officer (CAO) and chief data officer (CDO) to create a combined CDAO to serve as the principal advocate for data within the enterprise. Researchers at NewVantage Partners pointed out this […]

October 1, 2020

For organizations looking to capitalize on artificial intelligence and data analytics, the road forward can be daunting. From identifying use cases and data sources to developing models and sorting out the software and hardware stack, it’s easy to get lost […]

August 27, 2020

There is a gap between business and IT leaders in the financial services sector about the ability of IT infrastructures to respond to the challenges brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Gartner’s 2020 Financial services Covid-19 pulse survey, more […]

August 25, 2020

John “Kanen” Flowers is a tech industry archetype. A self-styled hacker and coder, he worked for Microsoft in the early 1990s before becoming a serial entrepreneur. He created one of the Internet era’s first personalized news sites, a network security […]

August 24, 2020

When it came to analytics services, I wrote off Microsoft long ago. At the time it was vying with Google for internet supremacy among consumers, as an attempted extension of its ubiquitous operating software, Windows. Time has passed. And while […]

August 21, 2020

Due to the unprecedented shutdown of businesses during the pandemic, most white-collar workers went from hours-long commutes to working fulltime from a guest bedroom somewhere in the suburbs. In the past, most enterprises resisted or refused to consider viable telecommuting […]

August 20, 2020

Two separate surveys show IT budgets still straining under the effects of the Covid crisis — yet, IT executives are looking out over the long term. At the time a survey of 100 IT leaders from Pulse was conducted — […]

July 29, 2020

If data sits at the heart of the digital workplace, then managing data and enabling organizations to get best insights out of the data they have is also key. As the amount of data entering the enterprise explodes, technologies to […]

July 29, 2020

Data is at the heart of business transformation. To speed transformation, businesses need an intelligent data strategy to ensure their data is always on, always fast, automated, and on-demand. That strategy needs to enable hybrid cloud so that data is […]

July 28, 2020

Like a river tumbling down a mountain, the process of data analytics never stands still. It’s always on the move, evolving with new technologies and strategies for extracting business value from ever-larger volumes of data. Today is no exception, as […]

July 14, 2020

Professional services firm Deloitte has a new report out this morning about A.I. adoption by corporations, and it is worth reading. (You can view the report here.) The main takeaway is that A.I. is becoming increasingly ubiquitous, and as it […]

May 8, 2020

Business process mapping is a framework that helps companies create visual representations of processes within the organization. Mapped processes can include products, software, services and even the onboarding or offboarding of employees. Organizations also use this framework to improve current […]

April 27, 2020

If you are locked down because of the COVID-19 pandemic, you just might have some extra time on your hands. Binging Netflix is all well and good, but perhaps you are getting tired of that and you would like to […]

April 23, 2020

While some U.S. investors might have taken comfort from China’s rebound, we still find ourselves in the early innings of this period of uncertainty. Some epidemiologists have estimated that COVID-19 cases will peak in April, but PitchBook reports that dealmaking […]

March 30, 2020

In the course of day-to-day operations, enterprises capture an enormous amounts of machine data. This data comes from many sources, including sensors and devices, applications and operating systems, networks and web traffic, and more. It can originate just about anywhere, […]