Fascinating 2018 Gartner Critical Capabilities Results for Analytics and BI
by Jen Underwood Earlier this month without nearly the grandiose fanfare or market madness of Gartner Magic Quadrant releases, the Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence...
View ArticleExploring the Current State of Embedded Analytics
by Jen Underwood Embedded analytics is everywhere. From consumer gadgets, intelligent things, and applications to the rapidly expanding Everything as a Service (XaaS) subscription economy, analytics...
View ArticleBuyer Beware: The DOMO IPO
by Jen Underwood In light of recent S-1 confessions and warnings about DOMO’s precarious situation, my condolences go out to DOMO’s customers, staff and investors. If DOMO does not pull off a...
View ArticleEstimating BI and Analytics Tool Migration Efforts
by Jen Underwood As data continues to grow and exceed current BI and analytics system capabilities, more organizations are adopting big data analytics solutions. Please join me and Wendy Gradek from...
View ArticleWhy You Need a Connector Strategy in the Digital Era
by Jen Underwood Both data-driven organizations and analytics software vendors today face a wide spectrum of complex challenges navigating an entirely new world of cloud app data sources. From security...
View ArticleOptimizing Marketing Spend with IBM Watson Studio
by Jen Underwood In our previous article, we introduced IBM Watson Studio and discussed helping our CMO and marketing team better utilize limited resources with advanced analytics. In this article, we...
View ArticleMy Favorite Shark Week Infographics
by Jen Underwood Grab the popcorn and a cool beverage. Shark Week (#SharkWeek) is upon us once again. Truth be told – I look forward to it. Shark Week is an annual, week-long TV programming ... Read More
View ArticleIndustry Pulse September 2018 Highlights
by Jen Underwood Long time, no news summaries…what happened? I’ll share the scoop on that soon. In the meantime, Cloudera and Hortonworks announced a merger that was really “big” news yesterday. That...
View ArticleTableau Conference Keeps on Getting Bigger and Better
by Jen Underwood Tableau’s right place, right time, right solution market momentum continues to fuel what seems to be unstoppable growth over the past five years. Hosted in New Orleans at the massive...
View ArticlePrescriptive Analytics: An Introduction
by Jen Underwood Where descriptive analytics reveals what has happened in the past, prescriptive analytics delivers insight into optimizing future decisions. As data-driven organizations mature, they...
View ArticleDemystifying Automated Analytics, AI in BI and AutoML
by Jen Underwood So many buzzwords, so much confusion. Automated analytics, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven BI, and automated machine learning (AutoML), aren’t these terms describing the exact same...
View ArticleBots Bots Bots: Introducing Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
by Jen Underwood Bots here, there, everywhere. All around the world, RPA bots are actively automating busywork. The hot RPA market is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 65%. In 2018, ... Read...
View ArticleTableau Conference 2019 Starting A New Chapter
by Jen Underwood And so it begins…Tableau enters the Salesforce era. This year Tableau Conference, the world’s largest gathering of data enthusiasts, continued to grow with over 18,000 attendees...
View ArticleReflecting on the Past Decade in Analytics
by Jen Underwood 2010 What was hot and what was not? From what I can remember, in-memory analytics, mobile BI, OLAP cubes and drag-and-drop analytics tools got all the buzz. Most customers I ... Read...
View Article10 Exciting Analytics Trends to Explore
by Jen Underwood New year. New decade. Time to prepare for what comes next. As organizations continue modernizing and moving to the cloud, the analytics world we once knew continues to change. Here’s...
View ArticleQuantifying the Data Jobs of Tomorrow
by Jen Underwood Good news for data professionals. World Economic Forum’s 2020 Future of Jobs report continues to forecast a bright outlook for Data, AI, and Cloud Computing professionals. The Jobs of...
View ArticleGartner BI MQ 2020 – What’s NOT covered
by Jen Underwood After a momentous year of innovation, industry consolidation, and unstoppable big tech market domination, controversial placements, and omissions linger on in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant...
View ArticleExploring a Decentralized Data Mesh Pattern for Modern Analytics
by Jen Underwood Like many other industries today, life sciences face a data deluge. Astronomical amounts of healthcare data double every 73 days. Extreme levels of data proliferation overwhelm top...
View ArticleGlobal Call to Action: COVID-19 Open Research Dataset Challenge (CORD-19)
by Jen Underwood Today I’m sharing a COVID-19 global call for artificial intelligence talent help from a coalition of leading research groups. Public COVID-19 datasets can be found on Kaggle along with...
View ArticleKnowledge Graph 101: How To Easily Query the Web without Web Scraping
by Jen Underwood *** NOTE: The following solution review is from a January 2020 project contract commitment. Both the vendor and I discussed the sensitive timing of publication. They decided not to...
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