The Promise and the Peril of Rearchitecting an Analytics Services Environment

Dec 13, 2018 by Kevin Petrie in Decoding Data Software

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A decades-old data and analysis firm has embraced a revolutionary cloud-first approach to improve efficiency, shorten release cycles, and enable new advanced analytics and machine learning offerings.  Its motivations for change, strategic objectives and execution plan are instructive for any...

Get Data Preparation Right or Prepare to Fail

Oct 02, 2018 by Jeff Cotrupe in All Things B.I.

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As companies hurtle toward the Holy Grail of “analytic insights,” there is just one little roadblock…actually, it is a sizable roadblock: in most cases, the data they are using contains errors and inaccuracies, its formats are inconsistent, and in short, it is unworkable. As a result, companies...

Back to School with Tibco

Sep 07, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Tibco released a major new version of Tibco Spotfire, which serves as the centerpiece of its data analytics strategy.

Qlik Unveils New Executive Team And Strategy

May 02, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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More than 18 months after its acquisition by a private equity firm, Qlik unveiled its new management team and strategy at its Qonnections conference in Orlando last week. The new executive team is focusing Qlik on its enterprise strengths, reinvigorating its partner channel, and reasserting the...

Cloudera Targets Data Warehousing

Apr 17, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Cloudera plans to disrupt the data warehousing market by using its enterprise data platform.