HR Has a Recruitment Problem. Analytics Can Help.

HR Has a Recruitment Problem. Analytics Can Help.

Ask your favorite HR person and they’ll most likely tell you that far and away their biggest challenge is recruiting talent, especially for technical roles. Their dilemma: organizations today have deep investments in software, but face a shortfall of staff with the...

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Data Mashing: A Lens on Enterprise Data

Data Mashing: A Lens on Enterprise Data

“Data mashing” seems like a poor description of a process. You are not bludgeoning the data. Instead, data mashing is more like using a kaleidoscope – mixing together different types of data and seeing what it looks like through a single lens. The difference is that,...

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The Key to Analytics Success is in the Next Cubicle

The Key to Analytics Success is in the Next Cubicle

Citizen Data Scientists Are the Critical Staff You’ve Already Hired For the past two decades, web development has been a bottomless reservoir of employment for developers, especially those with skills like Javascript. But the next decade belongs to data science. Case...

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The Power of Cognitive Computing

The Power of Cognitive Computing

Why Do I Need to Know About Cognitive Computing? AI and machine learning are propelling the next generation of software. In fact, it’s not hard to envision a near future where these technologies, collectively known as cognitive computing, become “must-haves” in LOB...

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A “Single Pane of Glass” Dashboard

A “Single Pane of Glass” Dashboard

The concept of a “single pane of glass” dashboard was a topic of a recent post by SQL Server Central blogger Steve Jones. This is originally a DevOps concept, the idea being that when you work using a continuous development/deployment model, you need one single source...

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Employee Cynicism and New Applications

Employee Cynicism and New Applications

Employees are already overburdened, so asking them to learn a new application can be futile. Or, employees are afraid of an unfamiliar interface, so they’ll push back against adopting it. Perhaps you’ve encountered these explanations from people in your organization....

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PII Data and Data Masking

PII Data and Data Masking

Organizations are legally required to ensure that their employees’ personal information remains confidential. Compliance can be as simple a process as shredding paper forms, but more likely it involves securing data held in computer systems; for example, payroll or...

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Autonomous Databases and the Future of DBAs

Autonomous Databases and the Future of DBAs

Given enough data and the right algorithms, a vehicle can drive itself better than a human can. That is the collective reasoning of more than forty corporations currently funding self-driving vehicle projects. Oracle thinks it can do the same with its databases....

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3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool

3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool

Few events in history come close to matching the enormity of the Big Data explosion. According to industry research, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That's approximately 2.5 exabytes. For perspective, if every word ever spoken were quantified in...

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Is Your Business “Intelligent”?

Is Your Business “Intelligent”?

The term Business Intelligence has been around since the 1920s, but gained prominence from the 1950s onwards. The advent of data processing mainframe systems and early DBMS allowed for data to be stored, processed and reported. Interest in BI revolutionized in the...

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Common Operational Reporting Questions Answered

Common Operational Reporting Questions Answered

This post outlines the different types of features that are necessary to optimize real-time reporting with minimal performance degradation. If your business relies on ERP and Cloud applications for its day-to-day functions, you've probably encountered one, if not...

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What Data Visualization Should I Use?

What Data Visualization Should I Use?

Raw data sets that are aggregated from corporate repositories, social media channels, company website metrics and other sources all have the potential to be of great value to an organization, but they don't actually convey meaning at a glance. This is where data...

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