An alternative data strategy is a collaborative, iterative, and exploratory process that is driven by domain subject matter expertise. That is our take from the research survey that we commissioned from Greenwich Associates to understand how buy-side portfolio managers, chief investment officers, and fund managers “Put Alternative Data to Use.” Our primary focus was to…
Industry experts and data-driven corporations around the world know there are far too few data scientists to meet the current demand, and those that are available are expensive. As a result, we’re seeing the emergence of power users referred to as “citizen data scientists” who are able to leverage powerful big data analytics tools. This…
This article was originally posted on the Cloudera VISION site. Criminals don’t refer to a playbook of best practices to execute a crime. They are creative in their thinking and collaborative in their efforts (including with parties who may not know they are complicit) to obtain their objectives and avoid getting caught. Trade surveillance in the financial…
In the blog post titled, Beyond the Cube: Embrace Analytical Views, we discussed how analytical views represent a new way to accelerate queries in a production environment. The next blog in the series, A Closer Look at Query Acceleration with Analytical Views, discussed analytical views in more detail in how to set them up. In…
This post was guest-written by Dan Woods, CEO of Evolved Media & Chief Analyst of Early Adopter Research. Dan creates ideas about technology products, based on a broad technical understanding. By writing as an analyst in Forbes and working with Evolved Media’s clients, he sees the magic in technology and why it matters to IT buyers. We…
You might be familiar with the concept of citizen journalism, which refers to “common citizens who play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing, and disseminating news and information.” The term became commonplace in the late 1980s, due to open publishing, collaborative editing, and online content. This use of the term “citizen”…
This post was guest-written by Dan Woods, CEO of Evolved Media & Chief Analyst of Early Adopter Research. Dan creates ideas about technology products, based on a broad technical understanding. By writing as an analyst in Forbes and working with Evolved Media’s clients, he sees the magic in technology and why it matters to IT buyers. In…
Unless you’re a fully signed up member of the Flat Earth Society you probably don’t think the world is flat. Just take a walk, a boat, a few planes and whatever other modes of transportation you prefer, and as long as you stay in a straight line, eventually you’ll end up where you started. In…
This blog was first published on Forbes. The amount of data generated by devices and machines continues to rise. Exponential data growth places an enormous amount of pressure on systems that must keep that information moving at high speeds from machines to data lakes or warehouses and into analytics platforms. Data storage and management are…
This post was guest-written by Dan Woods, CEO of Evolved Media & Chief Analyst of Early Adopter Research. Dan creates ideas about technology products, based on a broad technical understanding. By writing as an analyst in Forbes and working with Evolved Media’s clients, he sees the magic in technology and why it matters to IT buyers. It…
There is an abundance of hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in and around the analytics market. Matt Aslett and Krishna Roy published a new 451 research report last week highlighting a few key areas where AI is “assisting” humans for decision making (rather than just making the decision for them). “AI…
This post was co-written with JJ Medina, Managing Director ~ Enterprise Software Solutions for Financial Services at Pitney Bowes Commercial Real Estate (CRE) is at a risky inflection point. The rate of charge-offs (when the value of loans are removed from books and charged against a loss reserve) are essentially at zero while delinquency rates are…
