Big Data

Many organizations rush to collect and connect the data across their enterprise, seduced by the expectation that more means better and that bigger means more powerful. But in that rush for quantity, many have left considerations for quality behind. Simply having and processing Big Data doesn’t automatically boost productivity or improve profits. Quite the contrary:…

Along with the information explosion in our Information Age comes an abundance of revenue opportunities, if mined effectively, from Big Data. But many organizations delay the jump from data-obsessed perspectives to insight-driven management of their data, reporting that it’s a major challenge to convert from one to the other.  Similarly, surveys show that a majority…

In our hyper-competitive data-hungry marketplace, the volume, complexity, and diversity of the data sources that businesses rely on continue to expand at a faster and faster clip. Spreadsheets, databases, social data and online applications all contribute to the pool of knowledge, historical data and performance metrics that can be mined for powerful insights that can…

In today’s accelerated marketplace, dashboards give you more control, accuracy and impact to steer your enterprise wisely. But if your data sources are rife with error, complexity, and duplication, the effectiveness of your reports and insights will be degraded no matter how elegant your dashboards may look. The value of building a foundation of sustainable,…

Feeling buried under a mountain of data? In an age where every byte can be tracked and measured, the challenge isn’t about having the data or accessing it, but making sense of it all. We’ve got countless tools to store, filter, manage, review, sort, highlight, and analyze it but it’s still easy to get lost…