Advanced analytics continues to permeate more functional areas of the enterprise.  From marketing campaigns and sales optimization to supply chain and human capital management, business users are deploying newer, easier to use technologies to gain deeper insights, improve decision outcomes at the…

As a central repository and processing engine, data lakes hold great promise for raising return on data assets (RDA).  Bringing analytics directly to different data in its native formats can accelerate time-to-value by providing data scientists and business users with increased flexibility and…

As we evolve toward a software-defined world, there’s a new user experience urgency emerging.  That’s because the definition of “user” is going to be vastly expanded.  In the Internet of Things (IoT) era, users include machines.…

With increasing frequency, CIOs are being asked by their senior management, “What’s our big data strategy?”  But do you really need a big data strategy?

In our view, companies should instead focus on data…