Category: Data Mining

October 18, 2018

The path to digital transformation remains murky, but one thing is perfectly clear: Intelligent use of data has the power to transform companies’ business practices for the better. Yet figuring out what data is pivotal and how to best manage […]

October 5, 2018

One of the key insights from the 2018 Gartner CIO Agenda Report is that the digitization of businesses is transforming the role of the CIO from “delivery executive to business executive – from controlling costs and re-engineering processes to driving […]

September 28, 2018

What makes the future exciting? Simplicity. In all of our wildest imaginings in stories and movies about what the future will be like, a simpler life is almost always a central theme, driven by amazing technologies. The world today is […]

September 27, 2018

All of these characterizations underscore the fact that the competitiveness of an organization now depends on its ability to take advantage of the data it captures from business systems, the Internet of Things, social media and other channels. From optimizing […]

September 24, 2018

When I started my first business in the mid-90’s I did what most first-time entrepreneurs do — I ordered business cards. Actually, I first had to get an address and order a phone. After all, I couldn’t order business cards […]

September 20, 2018

Many IT admins often sit back and reminisce about the days when life was easier, simpler. Maybe they are looking out at a business and a data center that is growing faster than they can keep up with, or a […]

September 19, 2018

Charles Joseph Minard is arguably the world’s most famous data artist. By combining several data sets, including troop numbers, direction, temperature and terrain, he created in 1869 a visualization of Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign. Though that military exercise ended in […]

August 30, 2018

The latest data sharing proposal comes from Prof. Myer-Schonberger, whose previous work on big data and the right to delete information won him a wide following in policy circles. The key idea is that companies above a certain size would […]

August 28, 2018

Self-service business intelligence (BI) is becoming more popular, as organizations look for ways to make it easier for business users at all levels to glean insights from growing volumes of data. Research firm Gartner in a January 2018 report predicted […]

August 23, 2018

Charles Darwin was rumored to have said something to the effect of “It’s not the strongest or smartest that survives. Rather it’s the species that’s the most adaptable to change.” This axiom has never been truer in the business world […]