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BI Vendors Sliced and Diced on G2’s Grid

If you're on the hunt for better business intelligence software – and really, who isn't these days? – you likely are reading some analyst reports on the topic. But all too often, those reports don't reflect the exper Read more…

Sisense Adds Machine Learning to BI Platform

Machine learning continues to make serious inroads in big data markets, most notably in the automation of tedious business intelligence tasks. Among the emerging applications is discerning and highlighting patterns in en Read more…

Don’t Let Data Complexity Stunt Your Company’s Growth

Over the past few years, data has solidified its status as the currency that drives success for enterprises of all sizes. The ability to quickly gather, analyze and visualize data from different sources empowers business Read more…

AI-Powered Bots Gearing Up to Serve You

Get yourself ready for the bot invasion. Powered by artificial intelligence and fueled with big data, bots are gearing up to serve people the data, insights, and services they demand. Bots are not new. Anybody who's i Read more…

What Does the VC Investment Slowdown Mean for Big Data?

The overall pace of investments by venture capitalists slowed over the first six months of the year, according to new report issued last week. While the software industry as a whole did well, the number of investments in Read more…

Amazon Echo, IoT Bulb Enlisted for Data Engagement

Presumably under the category of "bright ideas," a business intelligence specialist is leveraging artificial intelligence and what it calls an "IoT light bulb" as a way to increase analytics engagement and adoption throu 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…

How to Turn Your Company Into a Data-Driven Enterprise

Business executives are feeling enormous pressure to ensure their companies are data-driven, be they at startups or global enterprises. Yet C-Suite surveys show there’s confusion about how to implement an effective dat Read more…

Data as a Service: Where It Works, Where It Still Doesn’t

The latest craze in the business intelligence market today is data as a service (DaaS), i.e. the idea that data or analysis can be sold and ‘served’ to end users on a per-usage basis, with data management, storage an Read more…

What 2015 Will Bring for Big Data

There's no denying that 2014 was a big year in big data. The rapid maturation of technologies like Hadoop and Spark, along with the continual explosion of all types of data, led to an awakening of the potential of distri Read more…