Three Keys to Scorecard Bliss

May 12, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Data Strategy Insider

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A scorecard is a powerful tool for aligning an organization and driving change. In many ways, it’s a visual representation of an organization’s strategy, tailored to every department and individual. But organizations (and the individuals that comprise them) hate to change. This article examines...

Making Predictive Analytics Pervasive

Feb 18, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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There is a lot of buzz around analytics in general and predictive analytics in particular.  Companies today are using predictive analytics to address a wide range of problems.  Despite this buzz, our data suggests that not much has changed in the past eight years in the evolution of predictive...

Big Data Part V: Hadoop: The Next Spreadmart?

Feb 15, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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For decades, data analysts of all types have used low-cost, self-service analytical tools to access and manipulate data, identify trends and anomalies, and present insights. Although the types of tools have changed over the years, the results are almost always the same: a spreadmart or data...

Big Data Part IV: Hadoop Won't Kill the Data Warehouse

Feb 14, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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This is the fourth in a multipart series on the impact of Hadoop on business intelligence.Hadoop advocates know they’ve struck gold. They’ve got new technology that promises to transform the way organizations capture, access, analyze, and act on information. (See Big Data Part III: “Hadoop 2...

Big Data Part III: Hadoop 2.0 Changes Everything

Feb 13, 2014 by Wayne Eckerson in Industry Insights

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Last year, we could write off Hadoop as a giant, low cost, data processing pump for refining multi-structured data and delivering it to the data warehouse. No more. Hadoop 2, and in particular the Apache Yarn project, changes everything.Released in October of 2013, Hadoop 2 turns the open source...