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...

New Year Reflections and Predictions by the Eckerson Group Team

Dec 13, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson and / Stephen Smith / Dave Wells / Julian Ereth / Kevin Petrie in Industry News and Analysis

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Our experts recently tuned their crystal balls and sat down for a long discussion on the major trends that will transpire in 2019.

Some Thoughts on MPP, Cloud, and MPP in the Cloud

Dec 11, 2018 by Stephen Swoyer in Analytics Alchemy

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Historically, core decision-support and analytics workloads had resisted migration or relocation to the cloud. Stephen Swoyer touches on all things MPP in the Cloud in this blog.

Top Five Obstacles to AI Paying Off

Dec 03, 2018 by Marc-Eric LaRocque in The Analytics Leader's Journey

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Artificial Intelligence promises much value in industries such as manufacturing and risk management. Yet, many organizations still struggle today with putting in place core practices that are required to get value from AI. Here are the top five obstacles according to many surveys.

Steve Dine: Modern Cloud Architecture & Mistakes To Avoid When Moving To the Cloud

Dec 01, 2018 by Wayne Eckerson in Secrets of Data & Analytics Leaders

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In this episode, Wayne Eckerson asks Steve Dine about the approach needed to migrate to the Cloud and architecture required to run analytics in the Cloud. Steve Dine talks extensively about the pitfalls to avoid during cloud migration and finishes off by saying that even though security is a big...