Category: BI Users

February 21, 2020

Most great app ideas begin and end in the ideation phase. In part, this is thanks to a prevailing mindset that breaking into the app industry is costly, labor-intensive, and reserved for only the minority of highly-skilled developers out there. […]

February 20, 2020

Marketers by now know machine learning has made an impact on marketing personalization efforts. Machine learning includes personalization use cases in the areas of lookalike modeling, churn analysis, cross-sell/upsell analysis and many others, according to a Forrester report last year […]

February 18, 2020

When SD-WAN was introduced, it was widely seen as an MPLS alternative. Today just about any credible, Internet-based SD-WAN solution can be used to replace a regional MPLS network. The bigger question is what happens the day after you networked […]

February 17, 2020

Pay attention to Amazon. The company has a proven track record of mainstreaming technologies. Amazon single-handedly mainstreamed the smart speaker with its Echo appliance, first released in November 2014. Or consider their role in mainstreaming enterprise on-demand cloud services with […]

February 13, 2020

When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) projects, the biggest challenge for CXOs isn’t necessarily deployment, but rather, managing these initiatives. For example, what do you anticipate your AI/ML budget will look like? What business areas […]

February 10, 2020

For the last 10 to 15 years, most organizations have viewed each marketing channel as completely distinct from any others. There was often an explicit segmentation between offline and online, and separate silos for face-to-face contact, telephone communication, and other […]

February 10, 2020

Robotic process automation (RPA) uses rules-based processes to perform repetitive tasks more quickly, accurately and tirelessly than humans. RPA bots save time and enable people to focus on value-added work. It’s an emerging technology and learning from those who have […]

February 5, 2020

To compete effectively, manufacturers need real-time insights into their operations from data that is generated across the production environment. This is one of the keys to reducing downtime, improving product quality, increasing factory output and meeting other business-driven goals. To […]

February 4, 2020

For many companies today it’s no longer a question of whether to move some data and workloads to the cloud. It’s a matter of how extensively to migrate the IT infrastructure to cloud services, and how many cloud providers are […]

February 3, 2020

Processing payments for thousands of contractors is an onerous task large enterprises grapple with as they hire outsiders for technical and business services. IBM licked this challenge using blockchain software to curb the costs and time it takes to process […]