analytics

September 9, 2014

PERSPECTIVES

Analytics to Identify and Strengthen Organizational Collaboration and Drive Innovation

4 min read

Companies with many employees face various challenges w.r.t. their size. One of these challenges is to identify key people, skills and information across (and outside) the organization and use them in the most effective way to drive innovation, new initiatives, but also sales. Situation Today The natural way for employees to cope with such a […]

September 6, 2014

DATA CENTER

Why ISVs Must Transform In SMAC Environment

2 min read

In today’s era of SMAC – Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud based solution, Pay-Per-Use licensing and Dev Ops software development methodology, Independent Software Vendors (ISV) are facing major challenges on many fronts. ISVs strive to differentiate from their competitors and gain new customers, as well as retain existing customers and generate additional revenue from them. […]

August 28, 2014

DATA CENTER

Next Generation Applications and Data Analytics

1 min read

I was speaking with a customer today at VMworld and, unlike many discussions, which are focused on the infrastructure (servers, storage, networking), this one turned primarily on the application. This person was describing to me his need to match the server to a new set of applications he is being asked to support and then […]

August 22, 2014

DIGITAL AND SOCIAL

Marketing Analytics adding heft to Digital Analytics

1 min read

The worlds of Digital Analytics and Marketing Analytics have frequently led somewhat independent lives - with the Digital Analyst spending time looking at digital channels (web/mobile/social), reading out...

August 8, 2014

DATA CENTER

Rocky Mountains High On Data Virtualization

2 min read

I recently returned from my seventh annual Boulder BI Brain Trust presentation. The BBBT as everyone likes to call it, is unique in the business intelligence, data and analytics industry. Since 2006, the BBBT has advanced this industry by organizing half-day vendor presentations to their over 140 members.  During these presentations, vendors such as the […]