By R "Ray" Wang on April 28, 2013
Big Data Vendors Seek To Move From Data To Decisions The move from Data to Decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across the entire organization. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-diciplinary approach that incorporates performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence technologies. Gather key insights from your data, transform insights into actionable information, and then [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 18, 2013
Informatica Sets The Stage For A New Chapter In Its History Informatica held its annual industry analyst day February 26th to 27th, 2013 at the Rosewood Sandhill in Menlo Park. The event showcased Informatica’s go-forward strategy and road map for growth over the next three years. Key highlights include: Capturing a $6.5B market opportunity in [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 28, 2013
The Why Behind Big Data Starts By Asking What’s The Business Outcome So organizations have lots of data. New techniques have emerged to correlate big data. Enamored by the potential of big data, leaders are now reinvesting in technologies to find hidden nuggets of insights with the business goals of: Mitigating regulatory risks Identifying operational [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on February 19, 2013
Changes at Infor More Than Cosmetic Analysts and tech watchers gathered on Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 2013, for Infor Summit, a progress check on Infor, the third largest independent applications vendor in the market. While many customers may not have heard of Infor, most have heard of the brands it has acquired over the last [...]
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By Dennis Moore on January 4, 2013
Highlights from the world of Enterprise Software and Solutions over the past two months (or so): Salesforce.com had a strong Q3. NetSuite had a strong Q3. HP did not. Workday had its IPO. It’s doing well, with a market cap just over $8.5 billion and a constrant stream of innovation. Lots of IT failures recently, [...]
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By Louis Columbus on October 11, 2012
Customers are quickly reinventing how they choose to learn about new products, keep current on existing ones, and stay loyal to those brands they most value. The best-run companies are all over this, orchestrating their IT strategies to be as responsive as possible. The luxury of long technology evaluation cycles, introspective analysis of systems, and [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 2, 2012
Marketing and Advertising Budgets Are The New Land Grab Constellation Research, Inc. predicts that the global advertising market (paid search, display, and classified) will hit $125B by 2015. While IT budgets continue to stay flat, marketing budgets are up. Warc’s recent Global Marketing Index (GMI) entered positive territory in March 2012. Consequently, the heat [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on July 25, 2012
The Real-Time Hype Is Filled With Flaws The hype around big data, social media, and mobility has many folks imagining the real-time enterprise in the future of work, next generation customer experiences, matrix commerce, or the data to decisions journey. While real-time theoretically leads to quicker information and faster response times, the reality requires closer [...]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 15, 2012
New Product Addresses The Social, Mobile, Cloud, and Big Data World The convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data (analytics), and video/unified comms changes the playing field from transactional applications to engagement applications. The result – a sea change of new data types from structured and unstructured sources. With greater volumes of data, demand for [...]
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The Big Question In Big Data Is…What’s The Question?
By R "Ray" Wang on June 20, 2012
All The Current Talk Of Big Data Technology Misses The Point The hype around big data has crescendoed to the levels of SOA in the early 2000′s, cloud in the late 2000′s, and social in the past few years. Unfortunately the hype is creating three main pitfalls: A morass of confused definitions. In fact a [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged analytics, best practices, BI, Big Data, BigData, Business Analytics, business intelligence, business value, business value framework, BVF, Constellation Research, Data deluge, data governance, data import, data integration, data quality, data reduction, data retention, data retrieval, data stewardship, data visualization, Data warehouse, Database, Decision Services, R "Ray" Wang;, real-time, Right time, rwang0, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, Tags Comments Date Analytics Title Author Categories Tags Comments Date Analytics Tuesday’s Tip: The Big Question In Big Data Is…What’s The Question? Edit | Quick Edit | Trash | View R "Ray" | 1 Response