Business Briefing – U.S. Rebounds To Lead Global Technology Revenue

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In-memory computing

Brad Howarth (CIO) 20 January, 2011 09:33 In-memory computing is making its way out of R&D labs and into the enterprise, enabling real-time processing and intelligence The massive explosion in data volumes collected by many organisations has brought with it an accompanying headache in terms of putting it to gainful use. Businesses increasingly need to [...]

Collaborative Analytics – the new analytic solution

The world of analytics has changed, now top organisations can harness the power of multiple views and opinions from within. Analytics has traditionally been more one to one relationships. Someone requests a piece of analytics and an analyst creates and prepares the work. This is then presented back for consideration and action. Now with the [...]

Datadoodle – Impress your colleagues with year end predictions

A great article on the power of data to make you look good, even if you are really “cheating”. As they state anyone can be a true visionary! Why should the smart people have all the fun with year-end predictions? You can issue your own! At this time of year, even hopeless nitwits can seem [...]

Still the king: Excel continues its BI tool supremacy

Go to any BI or data warehousing conference and you’ll likely hear about the evils and data management disasters that come with all of the Excel-based “spreadmarts” that business users refuse to let go of. In fact, you might think that Excel is akin to the bubonic plague – and for a lot of businesses [...]

Interest in predictive analytics heats up

A relatively small number of the organizations that responded to the 2010 SearchBusinessAnalytics.com survey were using predictive analytics tools – just 16%. But 48% said that they planned to add predictive analytics software within the next 12 months, giving it the top spot on the analytics technology adoption list. Industry analysts also see predictive analytics [...]

Collaborative Analytics is here

Collaborative analytics adds the power of analytics to social collaboration. Concept being delivered by Paul Ormonde-james