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Traditional data stacks lack the flexibility and scalability that cloud technology provides the modern data stack. However, on-premises data stacks can hold several benefits over…

Generative AI is poised to transform many facets of data and analytics, but it won’t provide the value organizations expect if their data management practices…

Real-time analytics tools promise faster insights and improved business processes, but they also pose challenges to organizations adopting them. As use of real-time analytics grows…

Data quality is key for any organization utilizing data for operations, and it starts with mitigating data quality challenges that lead to inaccurate or misleading…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning can generate quality predictions and analysis, but first require organizations be trained on high quality data, starting with the six…

Traditional vs. self-service business intelligence doesn’t have to be an either-or choice. Both bring different tools and benefits to organizations. Many organizations are leaving value…

Organizations can harness great benefits from data, but understanding the importance of data quality, trust and avoiding bias allows them to make decisions and create…

As companies strive for a unified view of their customers and other key corporate data, many turn to data warehouses as a place to keep…

Traditional business intelligence platforms are designed to be used by expert users, data scientists or statisticians. These valuable employees wind up spending too much time…

Predictive modeling helps companies optimize their internal operations, improve customer satisfaction, manage budgets, identify new markets and anticipate the impact of external events, among other…

Business intelligence is the process of analyzing company data to better understand that data, spot anomalies or trends and make predictions. It’s possible to do…

Augmented analytics is the use of machine learning and natural language processing to enhance data analytics, data sharing and business intelligence. The benefits of augmented…

Even as companies invest heavily in digital transformations and become more data-driven, there’s a dramatic shortage of data scientists. According to QuantHub, there was a…

Data science as a service, or DSaaS, has been old news for a while, but it has become a hot topic once again. In March,…

Business intelligence tools were once the domain of only business analysts with the quantitative and analytics backgrounds to make full use of BI capabilities. And…

Traditional relational databases are good at managing clear and simple relationships: This invoice contains these line items. This loan application contains this set of documents.…

According to Gartner, more than a third of large organizations will have analysts practicing decision intelligence by 2023. This is the next step for organizations…

The ethical use of data goes deeper than simple regulatory compliance. Enterprises are waking up to a new reality in which consumers — and even…

When Siri and Alexa fail to understand their user, it may be funny or at worst annoying. In an enterprise setting, a failure of natural…

Many enterprises can benefit from using predictive modeling. As the technology gets more accurate, easier to use and cheaper, the benefits of this type of…

Research shows that data-driven organizations are more successful, but employees often lack needed data literacy skills. According to a 2020 survey by Sapio Research, 80%…

Analytics is key to making smart business decisions, but not every analytics adoption project succeeds. And the more significant the project, the greater the obstacles.…

Mighty nice enterprise application you’ve got there, shame it doesn’t have any interactive visualizations and your users are going blind from staring at rows and…

Whether you’re newly entering the workforce, have been recently laid off, are worried about keeping your current job or have been temporarily furloughed and have…

Jeff Herman is not a locomotives expert. His background is in math and engineering, followed by additional study in data science. But when he was…

Rajesh Gill has just a couple of people to help him manage analytics for a billion-dollar product. For the associate director of forecasting and business…

End users increasingly want more from their applications. If they see a data dashboard, they want to be able to work with the data –…

The typical image that springs to mind when you hear the word database is probably a table where each row is a separate record and…

The California Consumer Privacy Act went into effect at the beginning of the year and enforcement will begin this summer. But certain Californians aren’t waiting…

According to this month’s LinkedIn U.S. “Emerging Jobs Report,” data scientists had the third largest annual growth, with 37%, and have been at the  top…