BI Team & Staffing

Executives and managers are awash in business intelligence information but the benefits of analytics tools are barely trickling down to frontline workers, according to a recent survey. Fewer than six out of 10 companies, the survey found, place significant importance in sharing business intelligence to operational employees…

At EMC we approach Big Data from every angle—how to store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize it, not to mention secure it. We also use Big Data in our own business, among other things to drive marketing programs. That gave us an idea: If we’re analyzing and directing…

An interesting phenomenon has been occurring in corporate IT. In an area where CIOs once ruled the roost for anything and everything regarding technology, and large, monolithic IT organizations were the norm, technology has increasingly become embedded in business units, and budgets and initiative ownership is shifting away from the…

IBM data scientists took two separate sources of data within IBM, smashed them together and analyzed them, said Brenda Dietrich, an IBM Fellow and VP, CTO and Strategist for the Business Analytics unit at IBM. The data came from the global services billing database and the human resources database. The…

There is a pressing need for more businesspeople who can think quantitatively and make decisions based on data and analysis, and businesspeople who can do so will become increasingly valuable. According to a McKinsey Global Institute report on big data, we’ll need over 1.5 million more data-savvy…

Teradata is among the big data specialists offering training for data scientists, sophisticated analysts, business intelligence experts –  whatever they end up being called, but people who can work with the data they can collect and store…

Business executives in the U.S. and U.K. see data analysis — specifically, the ability to extract predictive findings from big data — as one of the most important skills for today’s marketers. And yet many of them claim that marketers’ limited ability to analyze data is a major roadblock…

A Big Data Scientist needs experience in statistics, predictive modeling, business strategies, integrating multiple systems and certainly programming but that’s not all. They need to be able to communicate their data to non-technical people to explain what they’ve discovered, how it should be implemented and the impact…

CIO pay is rising sharply as non-tech companies compete for executives with experience leading tech teams and developing customer-facing technology.

Where companies once focused on hiring executives from within their specific industry, more businesses are chasing talent in software, electronics and telecommunications to gain competitive advantages…