BI by Role

23 May, 2013

Why The Chief Data Officer Is More Vital Than Ever

One role that enterprises are attempting to get a handle on is the Chief Data Officer. Professor and industry adviser Peter Aiken estimates that only about 10 percent of CIOs “know what they’re doing” when it comes to managing data as an asset, and he’s aiming to reframe…

Publication: Information Management

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23 May, 2013

CFOs Recognize Need To Adapt For Mobile, Social, Cloud

CFOs understand that enterprises are being challenged to adapt as the use of mobile, social and cloud and the data that results from their adoption expand exponentially, according to a joint study by Gartner Inc. and Financial Executives Research Foundation, the research affiliate of Financial Executives International…

Publication: Information Management

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23 May, 2013

Collaboration Between the CMO and CIO: A Love Story

One of the more historically contentious relationships is that between the CMO and CIO. This alliance depends primarily on healthy communication and consistency, but unfortunately, misaligned goals often get lost in translation…

Publication: Business 2 Community

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23 May, 2013

Making Sense Of Big Data Through Smarter Analytics

CFOs are calling for less data crunching and more analysis. CIOs are looking to glean value from providing the right data to the right people in a secure way. CMOs want to lead the marketing function into where it can collect the right information and make the right recommendations. There…

Publication: The Times of India

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23 May, 2013

6 Things Every CIO Should Know (Or At Least Think About)

CIOs may be the kings of the IT heap within their companies but they are also under siege — new technologies from outside, recalcitrant CEOs, budget-stealing CMOS. Some things to ponder…

Publication: GigaOm

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23 May, 2013

HR Can Derive Valuable Insights From Big Data

When big data is applied correctly by the human resource department it can increase employee productivity, decrease costs and improve revenues. Organisations can create better and happier employees with big data…

Publication: BigData Startups

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23 May, 2013

Five Principles For Optimizing Business Analytics

Organizations today must manage and understand a flood of information that continues to increase in volume and turn it into competitive advantage through better decision making. To do that organizations need new tools, but more importantly, the analytical process knowledge to use them well…

Publication: Ventana Research

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23 May, 2013

Hadoop: What It Is And How It Works

You can’t have a conversation about Big Data for very long without running into the elephant in the room: Hadoop. This open source software platform managed by the Apache Software Foundation has proven to be very helpful in storing and managing vast amounts of data cheaply and efficiently…

Publication: ReadWrite

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22 May, 2013

Business Intelligence Helps To Keep Score, Modernize Workflow

Nine years ago, Mike Kelley unleashed a hungry beast at Mesilla Valley Transportation. When executives and managers began to receive new reports through its new business intelligence platform from Microsoft, they began asking for more.

“As we started producing some reports the report request volume tripled. And it just keeps…

Publication: Commercial Carrier Journal

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