BI Power Struggle: A Strategy for Success

Jun 23, 2015 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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If you are a business intelligence (BI) leader and feeling on the defensive, there is good reason. Every ten years like clockwork, our industry swings from corporate-driven, governed data environments to business unit-driven, ungoverned data environments. We are now dead center in the ungoverned...

Analytics and the Best Consumer Products

Jun 16, 2015 by Chor-Ching Fan in Business Analytics & Insights

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Over the past decade, we have witnessed improvements in equipping more staff with dashboards, reports through ease of use, simpler deployment, and more favorable licensing models.  While the journey of enterprise BI and Analytics continues, a ginormous new channel for data intelligence is...

Big Data Fuels a ‘Data First’ Movement

Jun 15, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Big Data Analytics

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Having spent many years as a first hand practitioner on both the technology and the business side of the data fence, I can attest to how difficult it is to manage data well, and how frustrating it sometimes can be to be dependent upon the IT organization and the data warehouse for access. Can’t...

Chief Data Officer Role Shifts to Offense

Jun 15, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Big Data Analytics

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For some firms, the chief data officer has been seen as a quick fix, a silver bullet – as if, by virtue of establishing the position and filling the role, an organization’s data challenges would immediately fall into place. And because of this, a backlash has been brewing in some quarters.

Time to Focus on the Twin Pillars of Big Data 2.0

Jun 15, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Big Data Analytics

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While many executives claim to loath the term Big Data, they should nonetheless appreciate that the term has resonated from Wall Street to Main Street.  The great benefit of the Big Data wave of this decade, from my perspective, has been the elevation of the discussion, and the liberation of data...