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If you look back at the technology that was trending at the start of this decade, you’ll recognize a lot of the predictions. Google began testing self-driving cars. Facebook was poised to take over the world, soaring to become the most popular online site. Apple...
On a fundamental level, learning a software application involves understanding where its data resides. You most likely don’t know where the server that holds your database resides – it could be in a closet down the hall, in your data center, or somewhere in the cloud....
Whether your organization has 10, 10,000 or 100,000 employees, for daily business operations, you should be using an operational reporting software solution. Here’s why. Most companies can’t keep up with the growth of their operational data. When we think about the...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged in IT that time-intensive activities like network security, database backups and disaster recovery never receive the appreciation they deserve. Why should they? If a server goes down but traffic is seamlessly routed to another...
In last month’s Global Climate Strike, some six to eight million participants advocated for the reduction of human-created factors that are contributing to climate change. Workers at some of the world’s largest tech companies joined the walkouts to pressure their...
October 10th is World Mental Health Day, a day to raise awareness and support for mental health issues in our communities. Almost one in ten developers polled in this year’s StackOverflow developer survey admitted to a mood or emotional disorder. If you work in IT,...
The term often used in the BI and analytics industry is “data-driven” – it’s one thing every business wants to be. But we don’t hear too much of the flip side of this, which is when the data reveals some unpleasant information or a mistake. This is the difficult side...
It emerged in the beginning of this century, a title that was reportedly a joke to begin with, but a role that has since become essential to organizations. The flood of data – an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day – has made the role of the Chief Data...
A unique breakthrough serves to make good on the promise of real-time business intelligence. Business intelligence has long suffered from a trade-off. Put your data in a data warehouse for performing Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) using complex queries and you’ll...
Today’s growing data volume presents virtually limitless opportunities for organizations to optimize processes or increase profitability. But that’s only possible if data can be aggregated and analyzed to inform business decisions. Unfortunately, the large volumes of...
Data analytics promises to deliver a clearer vision of the world, a view based on actual metrics unclouded by our preconceptions. It’s a worthwhile goal, but difficult to reach when navigating the waters of technological changes like AI and machine learning. There’s a...
Last month Atlanta-based software company OneTrust closed a $200 million Series A round. The company’s product is a privacy management platform and, given the rise of privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA, it’s not surprising that investors are bullish. However, the massive...
If you look back at the technology that was trending at the start of this decade, you’ll recognize a lot of the predictions. Google began testing self-driving cars. Facebook was poised to take over the world, soaring to become the most popular online site. Apple...
On a fundamental level, learning a software application involves understanding where its data resides. You most likely don’t know where the server that holds your database resides – it could be in a closet down the hall, in your data center, or somewhere in the cloud....
Whether your organization has 10, 10,000 or 100,000 employees, for daily business operations, you should be using an operational reporting software solution. Here’s why. Most companies can’t keep up with the growth of their operational data. When we think about the...
It’s a truth universally acknowledged in IT that time-intensive activities like network security, database backups and disaster recovery never receive the appreciation they deserve. Why should they? If a server goes down but traffic is seamlessly routed to another...
In last month’s Global Climate Strike, some six to eight million participants advocated for the reduction of human-created factors that are contributing to climate change. Workers at some of the world’s largest tech companies joined the walkouts to pressure their...
October 10th is World Mental Health Day, a day to raise awareness and support for mental health issues in our communities. Almost one in ten developers polled in this year’s StackOverflow developer survey admitted to a mood or emotional disorder. If you work in IT,...
The term often used in the BI and analytics industry is “data-driven” – it’s one thing every business wants to be. But we don’t hear too much of the flip side of this, which is when the data reveals some unpleasant information or a mistake. This is the difficult side...
It emerged in the beginning of this century, a title that was reportedly a joke to begin with, but a role that has since become essential to organizations. The flood of data – an estimated 2.5 quintillion bytes created every day – has made the role of the Chief Data...
A unique breakthrough serves to make good on the promise of real-time business intelligence. Business intelligence has long suffered from a trade-off. Put your data in a data warehouse for performing Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) using complex queries and you’ll...
Today’s growing data volume presents virtually limitless opportunities for organizations to optimize processes or increase profitability. But that’s only possible if data can be aggregated and analyzed to inform business decisions. Unfortunately, the large volumes of...
Data analytics promises to deliver a clearer vision of the world, a view based on actual metrics unclouded by our preconceptions. It’s a worthwhile goal, but difficult to reach when navigating the waters of technological changes like AI and machine learning. There’s a...
Last month Atlanta-based software company OneTrust closed a $200 million Series A round. The company’s product is a privacy management platform and, given the rise of privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA, it’s not surprising that investors are bullish. However, the massive...
