Business Intelligence as a Competitive Advantage in the Retail Industry
Compared to other sectors, like finance and technology, retail can be considered a late adopter of the advantages offered by business intelligence to daily processes. This is a paradox, as the operations in retail are some of the most well ...
3 Important Power BI Features That Can Benefit Your Business
Over the past decade, rapid developments in technology have vastly improved many aspects of our lives. In addition, they have also been responsible for some major shifts in how businesses are managed and developed. Indeed, the past few years have ...
Business Intelligence Analytics is the Future of SaaS
The Internet debuted way back in 1984, when it connected more than 1000 hosts at university and corporate labs. It took the World Wide Web almost 15 years to grow to 50 million users. In 2009, there were more than ...
10 Business Intelligence Trends for 2016
Heading into 2016, the business intelligence (BI) landscape is one very much in flux. Big Data, cloud services, predictive analytics, and data science are continually innovating spaces that each feed into BI, constantly changing the role it plays within enterprises ...
BI Professionals Spend 50-90% of Their Time ‘Cleaning’ Raw Data for Analytics
Last year, the NYT shined a light on big data’s “janitor” problem – that data scientists and business intelligence pros spend too much time cleaning, not evaluating data. But how big of an issue is it, really?
Xplenty just wrapped a commissioned study of ...
The new Reality-Data Warehouse And Big Data:Modernizing a Traditional BI Concept
Stefan Müller, Director Business Intelligence & Big Data, it-novum
Big Data seems to have rendered the traditional data warehouse concept obsolete, being too slow, not flexible enough and having poor analytics. However, this article shows that – implemented in in the ...
Will Big Data Analytics Replace BI?
John Leonard of Computing.co.uk recently asked, “In 10 years’ time will big data analytics have replaced traditional relational business intelligence systems? That was one of the questions that Computing asked UK IT decision-makers in the quantitative survey that formed part of our recent big data ...
Integrating Hadoop into Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Information from SAS and TDWI Research
The purpose of this report is to accelerate users’ understanding of the many new products and practices based on Hadoop technologies that have emerged in recent years. While Hadoop usage is a minority practice today, ...
Big data deployments remain low among firms
More organizations may be investing in big data projects but few have actually deployed such initiatives. According to a Gartner study released Tuesday, 64 percent of businesses said they were investing or planning to invest in big data technology, up ...
Strategy and Application Are Both Key with Big Data
Anyone who spends time sifting through industry publications – regarding just about any major sector – can't go too long without stumbling upon some content regarding big data. The intensity of the laser-focused attention on big data has reached a ...