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Yearly Archives: 2017

Business Intelligence (BI): Analytics Can’t Keep Up with the Constant Change in What’s Being Measured

By Dick Weisinger

Businesses love the hype promised by business intelligence and analytics.  They generally love the results too.  But the problem is that they can’t get those results fast enough. A report from TDWI found that businesses complain that getting their analytics…

Data Virtualization: Building a Single Common Interface to Business Data Sources

By Dick Weisinger

Data virtualization provides a real-time “virtual” interface to data that originates from multiple data sources.  Data virtualization is useful for applications like Business Intelligence (BI), Big Data, and in organizations with federated repositories.  Data virtualization typically allows read/write access with…

Data Management: Getting a Grip on Enterprise Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data is important for the organization and it is important to develop methodologies to use data efficiently and cost effectively.  451 Research analyst Henry Baltazar proposed four different approaches for getting better control on data managed by the organization: Audit. …

Handwriting Recognition: Digitizing Text from Handwritten Paper Documents

By Dick Weisinger

The use of OCR for forms processing and text capture is a popular way for businesses to rapidly transfer years of historical paper records into electronic documents and records.  Companies like Ephesoft and Kofax/Lexmark offer technology for rapidly process, convert,…

Artificial Intelligence (AI): What Could Go Wrong?

By Dick Weisinger

Elon Musk has warned about the long-term possibility of artificial intelligence can be seriously be harmful to humans.  How can Artificial Intelligence be used responsibly? Can things like decency, fairness and morals be programmed into AI algorithms? I think the…