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Predictive Analytics Move Toward Center Stage
In this second in a blog series on business analytics I focus on the increasingly important area of predictive analytics. Our benchmark research into predictive analytics shows that while the vast...
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Tibco Bets on Event-Driven Analytics
Over the years Tibco has provided infrastructure for enterprise data integration and has built a substantial installed base. Now the company positions itself as supplying next-generation analytics for...
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Closing the Analytics Skills Gap
A study by the McKinsey Global Institute published earlier this year suggests a coming shortage of more than 140,000 workers with deep analytical skills and a shortage of more than 1.5 million...
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Splunk Bids to be King of Search and Operational Analytics
As I listened to the keynote address at, conf2012, the annual Splunk user conference, my initial impression was that the company was spreading itself too thin. The company highlighted four rather...
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Salesforce Dreamforce Keynote: Social is Changing Industry Power Structures
With more than 90,000 attendees registered and 100,000 more expected to watch via live stream on Facebook, Salesforce.com’s Dreamforce is the biggest technology event of this year. The conference...
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Workforce Analytics Does Not Require Big Data – Yet!
Exactly what is the relationship between workforce analytics and big data? Most of the use cases for big data seem to revolve around marketing and customer service, IT, or risk management, where large...
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Shifts in Retail Demand New Analytics
Our benchmark research into retail analytics says that only 34 percent of retail companies are satisfied with the process they currently use to create analytics. That’s a 10 percent lower satisfaction...
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PivotLink Analyzes Shoppers with Retail Analytics in the Cloud
I had the opportunity last week to visit PivotLink in the Bellevue, Washington, office that houses the company’s development team and marketing leadership to see its software. After taking the helm a...
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GoodData Rides BI in the Cloud for Business Value
GoodData has been around since 2007, but it has seen especially explosive growth in the last year due to the fast adoption of cloud Business Intelligence. In a recent meeting, Roman Stanek, the...
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The Brave New World of Business Intelligence
We recently completed our benchmark research on next-generation business intelligence. Ventana Research looks as next-generation BI as a function of traditional BI that is converging with new...
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The Dynamic Culture and Swedish History Behind QlikView
I recently returned from Sweden, where QlikTech International hosted its annual analyst “unsummit.” Much of the information I was exposed to was under NDA, so I cannot talk about it here. What I can...
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Revolution Analytics Rides R Language into Mainstream Business
Revolution Analytics is a commercial provider of software and services related to enterprise implementations of the open source language R. At its base level, R is a programming language built by...
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The Big Deal is in the 2013 Business Analytics Research Agenda
Did you catch all the big data analogies people used in 2012? There were many, like the refinement of oil analogy, or the spinning straw into gold analogy, and less useful but more entertaining ones,...
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SAP Business Analytics Strategy Built on SAP HANA Delivers Better Business...
SAP just released strong annual and quarterly results, which in many ways can be attributed to a strong strategic vision around the HANA in-memory platform and strong execution throughout the...
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MicroStrategy Raises the Ante on Mobile, Social and Cloud Innovation
MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor has a keen sense of where things are headed. He sees mobile and social as the two drivers of a world based largely in software. Last year I covered the announcements at...
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Big Data Analytics Faces a Chasm of Understanding
The challenge with discussing big data analytics is in cutting through the ambiguity that surrounds the term. People often focus on the 3 Vs of big data – volume, variety and velocity – which provides...
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The Four Pillars of Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics is being offered as the key to addressing a wide array of management and operational needs across business and IT. But the label “big data analytics” is used in a variety of ways,...
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Alteryx 8.5 Focuses on the User Experience of the “New Boss”
This year’s Inspire, Alteryx’s annual user conference, featured new developments around the company’s analytics platform. Alteryx CEO Dean Stoecker kicked off the event by talking about the promise of...
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Microsoft: Big Data Analytics and Mobile Challenges
Microsoft has been steadily pouring money into big data and business intelligence. The company of course owns the most widely used analytical tool in the world, Microsoft Excel, which our benchmark...
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Information Builders Advances Integration and Analytics for Business...
Information Builders (IBI) was as the highest ranked vendor in Ventana Research’s Business Intelligence Value Index for 2012. The combination of data integration, business analytics, visual and data...
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