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Data is a spellword
The difference, and relationship, between data and information is a common debate. Not only do these two terms have varying definitions, but they are often used interchangeably. Just a few examples...
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*Compete on Analytics*
That’s the title of today’s Harvard Business Review Management Tip of the Day, which is worth reproducing in full: Differentiating your company based on products or cost is near impossible these days,...
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The perennial problem
Respondents to the survey indicated that they want BI applications that can easily integrate with major enterprise applications from the likes of Oracle and SAP. Do smaller or niche BI software vendors...
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Don’t believe the hype
Industry watchers have been talking up “advanced analytics” for a couple of years now — with no clear indication that the market was ready to follow suit. New market research finds that demand for...
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Advanced analytics and OLAP
Philip Russom at the TDWI Blog: The current hype and hubbub around big data analytics has shifted our focus on what’s usually called “advanced analytics.” That’s an umbrella term for analytic...
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Audience and subject
Any analysis can be understood as the intersection of audience and subject. In the Business Analytics context, typical audiences are you, your customers, and your prospects. Typical subjects—for...
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Tom Davenport: Why aren’t most organisations competing on analytics?
The tricky thing here is that once a system gets automated it’s all too easy to kind of let it keep running, and there’s no better way to lose money quickly than to have a bad decision algorithm keep...
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Big data as an advanced analytics driver
So far from making us more profligate with information, perhaps the Goddess of ‘big data’ will spur us to be smarter in data selection, and ensure more intelligence is embedded within our data...
View ArticleThe Case for Commodity & Open-Source Analytics
All Analytics – The Community for Data Management, Business Intelligence, & Analytics – has invited Analyst First to argue the case for open source software in analytics as part of their...
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*Why Software Is Eating The World*
Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform...
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