Tag: BI

June 5, 2019

Chances are, the last time you engaged in a real estate transaction in the United States you used DocuSign. The last time you bought something online from Walmart, you might have used Adobe Sign. Electronic signatures have facilitated transactions for […]

May 24, 2019

Today’s smart home technology makes managing life much simpler. With the ease of a cell phone, anyone can monitor and control many electronics in the home. From hundreds of miles away, you can easily turn on and off lights, appliances, […]

May 3, 2019

I’ve just spent a couple of days at O’Reilly’s Strata Data Conference in London and got a much better idea where the world of big data, machine learning (ML) and AI may be heading. These sectors have developed rapidly over […]

May 2, 2019

We’re well past software “eating the world.” Software has become irreversibly intertwined with the world. You can’t find a modern enterprise that doesn’t depend on software, or a business transaction that doesn’t require software at some point in the end-to-end […]

May 1, 2019

The banking industry is undergoing significant disruption, driven by consumer demand for new products combined with new competition from challenger banks and non-financial institutions. Most banks have embarked on digital transformation initiatives in their quest for innovation, shorter new product […]

April 26, 2019

It’s a widely acknowledged fact that many industries suffer from endemic lack of diversity, and that efforts to tip the scales the other way often run into resistance. Such was the case, for example, when Google Employee James Damore claimed […]

April 11, 2019

Last year I wrote a blog post questioning whether Google was ready to become a mainstream enterprise vendor. As I pointed out in that post, Google has danced around enterprise for years but has never been able to establish itself […]

April 11, 2019

To say a CIO’s job is difficult is a gross understatement. Carrying out routine IT duties and deploying cutting-edge innovations makes for a tough balancing act. Toss in the fact that every CIO in the world is now under pressure […]

April 9, 2019

Business intelligence (BI) analysts transform data into insights that drive business value. Through use of data analytics, data visualization and data modeling techniques and technologies, BI analysts can identify trends that can help other departments, managers and executives make business […]

April 4, 2019

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to meet with Blake Sanders, the CIO of American Cancer Society (ACS). After hearing Blake’s story about digital transformation at ACS — an organization that acts both as a charity and healthcare […]