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Big Data: Help Wanted: Need More Data Scientists

By Dick Weisinger

Both the hardware and software technologies are evolving at a rapid pace, increasingly making it possible to perform ‘Big Data’ analysis , but there is a fairly big gap in the number of trained technologists who are productively able use the

Business Intelligence: Building the Foundation for BI Success

By Dick Weisinger

While few Business Intelligence (BI) projects can be classified as failures, only about a quarter are called truly successful.  The rest of BI projects are in a neutral state somewhere in between, achieving results, but just not at the level

Business Intelligence: 'Data Black Spots' Cloud Decisions

By Dick Weisinger

“Every organization has to improve how its leaders make decisions. Managers must be able to turn information into insights, then convert insights into actions and be sure those actions produce positive outcomes.”  That’s the conclusion in an August report published

SOA and Business Intelligence: Organizations Increasingly Improve BI with Unstructured External Data Sources

By Dick Weisinger

Mix large data sets with quality analytics and you have a recipe for best-in-class business intelligence.  A report by Aberdeen and sponsored by Informatica finds that the organizations that have been most successful in making this recipe work for them

Business Intelligence: Business Analytics Provides the Edge for Successful Companies

By Dick Weisinger

Companies that effectively use business analytics are stronger performers.  Companies that are using business analytics for  “data-driven decision making” have been shown to be 5 to 6 percent more productive than those companies that don’t.  That’s the results of a