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…
If you are part of a large modern enterprise, you probably consider your company to be data-aware, meaning that you can transform raw data into useful information using a variety of data integration, data management, and business intelligence (BI) tools. But being data-aware doesn’t necessarily mean that you are insights-driven. These days, your organization must…
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’s…
Co-written with Peter Memon, Managing Director – Global Head of Emerging Technology at Synechron. This article was originally posted on Synechron Mind the Gap between Technology and Business Intent Solutions to complex analytical problems often rely on the craftsmanship of highly-specialized experts in data science, machine learning, and other branches of artificial intelligence. The extent to which advanced…
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Companies are extending data and analytics across departments, so “a follow-on effect is that personnel who previously didn’t have to perform analytics now have to do so in order to do their jobs,” according to the 451 Research report Citizen Data Scientists: The New Darlings of the Analytic Sector? Download the report to read 451…
If you are a believer in Betteridge’s Law, then you’re in for a surprise (though perhaps I should’ve titled this blog as, “Are Data Lakes Doomed to Fail?” so as to not contradict the law). Data lakes can, in fact, be saved. If you are reading this post because you are intrigued by the title,…
The need for immediate access to data is a popular theme in business today. The most successful companies will be those that react quickly to changing environments. One of the biggest challenges organizations face today is ensuring that many different types of users get access to granular data in a timely manner in order to…
As in any hot technology market, people become either enamored or confused by new terms and acronyms: AI/ML, GDPR, IoT, big data, data hubs, and of course, “data lakes.” A few weeks ago at the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit in Grapevine, TX, I attended 11 sessions, three analyst inquiries, and talked with dozens of…
