The Big Data Analytics Tradeoff

Apr 04, 2016 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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Big data poses a thorny problem for traditional reporting and analysis tools. If the data volumes are truly large—say in the terabyte or petabyte range—queries can’t resolve within seconds, as users increasingly expect. Therefore, before selecting a big data analytics product, it’s important to...

A Capability Model for Business Analytics: Part I – Dimensions of Capability

Apr 04, 2016 by Dave Wells in Data Management

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We’re seeing explosive growth in analytics adoption throughout organizations everywhere. The promise of analytics is great but difficult to realize when growth is uncontrolled and unmanaged. Unknown capabilities and disconnected pockets of analytics are very real risk factors. An analytics...

BARC Score Data Integration Platforms 2016

Apr 03, 2016 by /experts/ in Data Strategy Insider

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This BARC document is part of our new vendor evaluation and ranking methodology, named Score. This edition provides an overview of the Data Integration platform market. Based on countless data points from our requests for information (RFIs) and many analyst interactions, vendors are rated on a...

BARC Score Business Intelligence: Enterprise-Wide BI Platform Deployments

Apr 02, 2016 by /experts/ in Data Strategy Insider

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This BARC document is the inaugural version of our new vendor evaluation and ranking methodology, named Score. We selected the business intelligence platform market for the premiere. Based on countless data points from The BI Survey and many analyst interactions, vendors are rated on a variety of...

One-on-One Webcast: Interview with John Evans and Stephen Pace of Magnitude Software

Mar 23, 2016 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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In this episode of Eckerson Group's "One-on-One Series", Wayne Eckerson interviews Magnitude Software's Director of Marketing, John Evans, and Principal Consultant Stephen Pace.  In this webcast they discuss the Eckerson Group report,“Data  Warehouse Automation Tools: Product Categories and...