Data, including big data, is only as valuable as it is actionable. Vizient, a member-owned healthcare company that specializes in helping its members to do business more efficiently, focuses on not only broadening its intelligence, but also improving its ability…
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Ever since 2015, when the price of oil dropped precipitously, oil and gas companies have had to find every opportunity to reduce expenses while maximizing every available revenue source. For Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, this meant transforming its analytics capabilities, which…
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The Magic Quadrant (MQ) is an influential series of reports published annually by the IT consulting firm Gartner, Inc. The latest edition of the MQ for Data Integration has been recently released (you can read it here) and it identifies…
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No one likes to wait for IT to deliver reports that are critical for analysis. And certainly, no analyst can afford to wait while emails are sent back and forth, just so they can get the data they need. Unfortunately,…
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This blog was penned by guest blogger, Thibault Perier, Data Scientist from Astrakhan Innovation Management. A typical company manages many disparate data sources, representing volumes that are only growing larger over time (all whilst big data repositories expand in capacity…
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There was a time when developing a data warehouse was sufficient to quench the thirst for data, reporting, and analytics of most business users. Not anymore. Organizations have discovered that data can be a valuable business asset. It has taken…
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Savvy organizations know that business growth and success are intrinsically linked with an effective strategy for managing data. But as the big data momentum builds, more questions are raised. In this post, I’ll answer five of the most important ones….
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In 2015, Inc. Magazine named Ultra Mobile the fastest growing private company in the United States. Incredible accomplishment for a team that literally started in a small office and had exploded over 1000x percent by their second year. The Telco…
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Tableau has released the Tableau Denodo Connector in Tableau 10.4, a built-in connector for accessing the Denodo Platform in a seamless way. The new Tableau Denodo connector offers full interoperability between Tableau and Denodo, allowing Tableau users to take advantage…
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What is data virtualization? Here’s an analogy using a concept that we can all relate to: a supermarket. Picture the scene: Shopping list in one hand, shopping basket in the other, you’re ready to tackle your weekly shopping in your…
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