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Operationalizing Data-Driven Decisions: A 5-Step Methodology

Making effective decisions across an enterprise, a government, or a planet involves more than using well-designed software to analyze data. To operationalize data-driven thinking, you need a decision environment that can Read more…

How Toyota Revamped Its Collections Biz with Big Data Analytics

Toyota wasn't the only automaker to suffer during the Great Recession. But when the volume of Toyota customers behind on car payments spiked to record levels in 2009, the company decided to overhaul its approach to colle Read more…

Is 2016 the Beginning of the End for Big Data?

Part of my job as managing editor of Datanami is to be a hype buster. Over the past five years, the amount of hoopla and hysteria over big data has reached epic proportions at times. That's why some in the industry are c Read more…

Predictive Analytics Now In Reach Of the Average Enterprise, Forrester Says

The average enterprise is better positioned than ever to take advantage of advanced analytic software, says Forrester Research, which put out its annual power rankings for advanced analytic tool vendors last week. "Go Read more…

Rating the Advanced Analytics Vendors

There are several ways you can go about obtaining the advanced analytic capabilities needed to extract insights from large amounts of data. You can outsource the whole thing to a services firm, you can buy pre-built appl Read more…

Why Twitter Is the Low-Hanging Fruit of Social Analytics

Nobody is mistaking the Twitter fire hose for a crystal ball. But big companies are increasingly turning to Twitter and other social media outlets for a range analytic tasks, from gauging customer sentiment about bendy s Read more…

FICO Improves Its Big Data Score with Trio of New Apps

FICO is best known as the company behind the software that calculates credit scores. But in fact the company does a whole lot more, and last week the company flexed its analytics muscles with the unveiling of several new Read more…

Get Your Big Data Analytic Competition On

Are you interested in proving your big data analytic worth to a doubtful world? There may be no better way than participating in an officially sanctioned analytic competition, which will let you see how your skills stack Read more…