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24 May, 2013

The Co-Pilot Perspective

Information relevance is often gleaned through a proper perspective. In a business context, this is gained from shared vision, context and access to shared information and insight. Too often, the data was always there. But the proper perspective to act appropriately was missing.

By bringing all key data and insights…

Publication: Domo

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21 May, 2013

Departmental BI In The Cloud

Despite numerous attempts from providers, the cloud failed until now to secure a spot in the business intelligence market. However, there now is an increasingly pressing demand for it, particularly in the departmental applications area. The arrival of two new cloud specialists in the Gartner 2013 BI Magic Quadrant pinpoints…

Publication: BeyeNetwork

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16 May, 2013

The CIO Is Driving IT Toward A Cliff

There’s an increasing perception across the enterprise that the role of the CIO as we know it won’t survive the decade. This isn’t anecdotal evidence, either, as respected institutions like the Harvard Business Review, the Economist and others are publishing studies that show that the average CEO…

Publication: Wired

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15 May, 2013

This Is Why Big Data Is The Sweet Spot For SaaS

When it comes to using big data technology effectively, there’s a lot to like about SaaS. When companies like BloomReach create and analyze massive web-wide data sets, they automate insights that almost no individual company could discover on its own…

Publication: GigaOm

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9 May, 2013

Cloud Jargon Unwound: Distinguishing Saas, IaaS and PaaS [Infographic]

As cloud computing dominates more and more aspects of the tech world, similar-sounding but confusingly different something-as-a-service acronyms keep piling up. You’ve probably heard of SaaS (Software as a Service), since it applies mostly to cloud services delivered to end users…

Publication: ReadWrite

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8 May, 2013

Real-Time Access To SaaS Data

Data stored in SaaS applications is often inaccessible to BI tools. This is a major headache to early adopters of SaaS applications…

Publication: Smart Data Collective

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23 April, 2013

Why Cloud Computing Is Accelerating In The Enterprise

Translating time into dollars matters far more to many CEOs I’ve spoken with versus what platform their applications are running on.

What matters most is getting all they can out of every hour their business is operating.  They are all focused on getting beyond the constraints that held their…

Publication: Forbes

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8 April, 2013

Unify Cloud, Big Data And Enterprise Data With Ease

While Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offer applications and resources at an attractive, pay-as-you-go price, they also create silos of data that are difficult to access by your analytics and BI solutions…

Publication: Cloud Computing Journal

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3 April, 2013

Does Big Data Spell The End Of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

It’s no secret that Hadoop and Big Data are, well, big. The explosion of new data sources such as social media and website clickstreams offers new types of information and, potentially, the opportunity to generate new insights

However, it’s obvious that Hadoop, despite its obvious benefits, is not…

Publication: IT World

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