Embedded analytics lead to stickier applications. 

Crisp and timely article by Clint Oram CTO at SUGARCRM on the way to anticipate data storage issues and compliance with EU and other Data...

Why? To increase booking value and profit margins, reduce churn and ensure long-term survival.  

"A well-conceived addition of BI...

Shrinking sensors, because they are so small, nanosensors can collect information from millions of different points. External devices can...

Chimes with my contention, not to mention Gartner, Aberdeen et al, that every application should be an analytics application. And not...

This is interesting- I've commented a great deal on self-service BI but 360Globalnet have combined that with self-service data...

Better insights, self-service BI, data discovery, "stunning dashboards"- it amazes me sometimes that analytics and BI are often portrayed...

Gives me an excuse to link you to a humorous look at the problems of planning and deploying effective BI across the enterprise:-

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Very useful article by Mark van Rijmenam to which I will add:-

First- Most BI/analytics deployments based on looking in rearview mirror so...

A presentation at HPE Discover in Las Vegas takes big data analytics from the realm of number numbing algorithms to real life & death.

"Black swan" is a catch-all phrase for "outliers" or wildly unexpected events and processes: something such as the 2008  banking...

Get a new view and meaning from data. See the significant competitive advantage gained for a Malaysian Telco identified by...

Barry Jaruzelski of PwC emphasises the point that its not just media, electronics and consumer good companies- it is heavy industry as...

Interesting insights from the Indian Insurance market on the role of data analytics in digital transformation. Applies to UK, rest Europe...

Chris Proctor's metaphor about self-service strikes a chord!

" If you buy a car and you drive off the forecourt you turn left – why should...

You know when you get one boy in gorilla enclosure story and suddenly the media is full of people stuck the wrong side of the security...

McKinsey report below highlights the challenges. 

My own blog dwells on "The Reality of IoT" and the fact early adoption will be...

Gartner report highlights that " waterfall methods were employed on 56 per cent of development projects in 2015".

Is this a key reason...

Leaders manage; they plan, organise, direct and control. Analytics used to be just "looking in  the rear-view mirror".

Two problems...