May 6, 2019
Seamless Adoption of Snowflake in the Cloud: Rakuten with AtScaleEvery new enterprise solution introduces a multitude of problems. For the enterprise, the solution that has introduced the most complexity to the business has been cloud transformation. According to IDG, 73% of organizations have at least one application, or a…
April 29, 2019
CDO Version.2019: Seven Keys To Defining The JobThe Chief Data Officer is on the rise. A remarkable number of companies have made this high-profile addition to the C-suite over the past year, confirming the urgency of data-driven decision making at the highest levels of the enterprise. However,…
April 19, 2019
Analyzing Gartner’s 2019 Magic Quadrant for AnalyticsOn February 11th, 2019, Gartner released its latest magic quadrant for analytics and business intelligence platforms. As we’ve done since 2016, we will highlight who Gartner considers the market leaders to be, as well as any notable changes and constants…
March 11, 2019
Conceiving Valuable Data Driven InsightsHow valuable is an insight if you don’t know what’s driving it? The investment in big data made in recent years by companies has been significant. Many are now looking to capitalize on the insights to be discovered in their…
March 8, 2019
IMPROVE BI PERFORMANCE THROUGH EFFICIENT TIME-SPECIFIC CALCULATIONSThe more things change, the more they stay the same. There is tremendous push towards new platforms capable of dealing with massive amounts of data. Data is flowing at a scale once considered impossible, and the sources of data are…
March 7, 2019
Gartner Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence (BI) 2018: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly…Every year, many of you reach out to thank us for our analysis of Gartner's famous Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. Thank you all for your feedback! This year, we've decided to go one step further: in addition to our…
Yesterday, Gartner published the 2018 Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence. The MQ research for BI has been in existence for close to a decade. It is THE document of reference for buyers of Business Intelligence technology. At face value, not…
Five years ago we had a hypothesis that Business Intelligence (BI) needed a reboot. We planned to take the best parts of original BI ideas and merge them with modern engineering and data analytics to build a platform for delivering…
Does your decision-making process need an overhaul? In 2015, over 60% of the decisions made by companies were still based on ‘intuition’ or ‘experience’ of their executive team. With the rise of big data, it is imperative that we make…
March 6, 2019
What You Might Have Missed in March 2018March is gone and Spring has arrived, at least for many of us. A lot happened in March, and we certainly don't want you to miss out on what’s big on big data. Without further ado, here is what you…
