Tag: BI

July 1, 2022

A 20-year-old article from MIT Technology Review tells us that good software “is usable, reliable, defect-free, cost-effective, and maintainable. And software now is none of those things.” Today, most businesses would beg to differ. From payments to CRM to analytics […]

June 29, 2022

Do you know why your customers are getting in touch? Disruptive technologies have made it easier to anticipate customer intent. For example, data-driven AI chatbots can pick off the easier customer queries, while IVR (Interactive Voice response) can automate the […]

June 29, 2022

Rates of change in all industries, coupled with enormous macroeconomic pressures, mean stagnation and complacency can be the death of any business. It is important that leaders think big and long term. An essential challenge in this is to use […]

June 28, 2022

In an effort to push past doubts cast by rival firms, data lake provider Databricks on Tuesday said that it is open sourcing all Delta Lake APIs as part of the Delta Lake 2.0 release. The company also announced that […]

June 28, 2022

MIT has open-sourced pa.sh (also called pash), a tool that can dramatically speed up Linux scripts by using parallelization, saving time and without risk of introducing errors. The process of parallelization first examines a script for code that can be […]

June 27, 2022

In today’s fast-paced world of competing business priorities, the capacity to enable self-service data analytics with right-sized data governance is key. This ability removes the structural barriers between IT-managed data environments and true, businesswide data-driven decision making. Data fabrics — […]

June 27, 2022

Hospitals are one of the best examples to spotlight the complexities of unstructured data. From physicians’ notes in EHRs, emails, text files, photos, videos, and other files, the majority of patient data cannot be read by machines. Research firm IDC […]

June 24, 2022

One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an application is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database to store the data. Conventional databases, meaning relational databases that use SQL (Structured Query Language) for queries, are the […]

June 24, 2022

Every organization I know of wants to treat its data as an asset. But they lack the imagination of what that means. It can be interpreted as having robust Data Governance. Or it could mean improving Data Literacy across the […]

June 23, 2022

We live in a hybrid data world. In the past decade, the amount of structured data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally has grown from less than 1 ZB in 2011 to nearly 14 ZB in 2020. Impressive, but dwarfed […]