Glad to join such a distinguished organization

Sep 29, 2018 by Marc-Eric LaRocque in The Analytics Leader's Journey

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I am happy to have joined my colleague, Wayne Eckerson, to lead the Eckerson Group's consulting division, as VP of Consulting. You may know Eckerson Group as primarily a research and thought leadership think tank, but we also help clients modernize their data and analytics capabilities by...

Adulting and Data Science at Strata NYC 2018

Sep 28, 2018 by Stephen J. Smith in Predictive Analytics Trends

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My overall take away from Strata is that our big data and Hadoop friends have graduated from college and have begun adulting. For Strata, this means a shift in focus from technology towards business and other real-world areas like revenue, growth, and profitability. This is a good thing. Big data...

What do you do first after being hired as a BI/analytics/Data engineering director? (The First 90 Days, Part I)

Sep 27, 2018 by Marc-Eric LaRocque in The Analytics Leader's Journey

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A classic management practice dictates that a newly-appointed leader must accomplish certain things in their First 90 days. While some of this is general knowledge, there are specifics when it comes to Data Management and Analytics. If you have been recently named to head any group that must...

Assessing the Kafka Data Streaming Opportunity

Sep 17, 2018 by Kevin Petrie in Decoding Data Software

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Many enterprises are adopting Apache Kafka to process higher volumes of data faster and thereby realize more value from business events. 

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.