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Survey: Excel Remains Go-To Data Prep Tool

Skyrocketing data volumes and a complex mix of data types are bogging down data preparation and processing efforts, according to a recent overview of enterprise data quality. The snapshot released by data prep vendor Read more…

Tumultuous Times for BI and Analytic Tool Vendors

My, what a week it was for business intelligence (BI) and analytic tools. First, industry darling Tableau Software (NYSE: DATA) lost half its market capitalization following earnings that disappointed Wall Street, which Read more…

Finding Your Way in the New Data Economy

In big data analytics today, the goal is to capture, cleanse, and analyze as much data as possible. The leading practitioners are blending dozens of external sources with their own data sets, maybe more. But in the emerg Read more…

BI’s Inflection Point: The New Fast Data Exploration Mandate

Intel (INTC)’s Andy Grove famously wrote and spoke about the difference between ordinary change and a strategic inflection point (SIP) with significant impact to the health and survival of an organization. He defined s Read more…

Why Big Data Prep Is Booming

The big data analytics space is growing as organizations attempt to turn massive sets of data into a competitive advantage. But this trend is also driving a secondary boom in the market for data preparation tools that cl Read more…

Can Smarter Machines End the Pain and Expense of Data Wrangling?

Like Alan Turing’s vision to create smarter machines to crack the Enigma Code in World War II, we now sit at a critical juncture to solve the significant pain and expense of data wrangling that most big companies face Read more…

Spark Just Passed Hadoop in Popularity on the Web–Here’s Why

Interest in Apache Spark surpassed Apache Hadoop for the first time last month, according to Google Trends. While it's not a definitive statement of Spark's actual impact on big data processing in the real world, it does Read more…

A Storyboard Approach to Big Data Insights

Big data by itself is just a worthless collection of numbers and characters. To make big data work, you need to show how the information is meaningful. Taking a storytelling approach to analytics is one way to put big da Read more…

Hadoop ISVs Break Away from MapReduce, Embrace Spark, In-Memory Processing

Big data analytic software vendors who run on Hadoop are increasingly replacing their MapReduce engines with Apache Spark and other in-memory analytic engines as the runtime of choice. Many of these next-gen Hadoop vendo Read more…

How To Not Get Overwhelmed by Big Data

Big data, by its very nature, is overwhelming. Like a tsunami, the deluge of data we're all experiencing--a Datanami, if you will--is a massive force that cannot be controlled. But by starting small and finding out what Read more…

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