When I first began advising businesses some years ago, I noticed what I thought was a “data gap.” Marketing, sales, customer success, and product teams were not aligned, and they definitely weren’t sharing data across the customer lifecycle to make decisions. Granted, marketing didn’t want to spend …

Data in motion involves several different situations that might require different architectures, applications and management techniques. Here’s what you need to know. Previously, collected data remained in one place. It arose from a transaction system, went to a warehouse or mart, and remained there for …

Predictive analytics technologies have become critical to compete in manufacturing (predicting machine failure), banking (predicting fraud), e-commerce (predicting buying behavior) as well as to address horizontal use cases such as cybersecurity breach prevention and sales forecasting. Using data to predict and prevent IT outages and …

Industries that are traditionally asset-heavy, such as utilities, have an extra challenge facing them: performing successful asset performance management on an ongoing basis to ensure those assets are generating revenue, not costing money due to underperformance or an unexpected stoppage. While much is being made …

In the world today, data is probably the thing that matters most. It can tell you before the airplane’s brakes fail. It can predict the onset of a natural disaster or forecast when you might suffer a heart attack. This isn’t a fantasy or a …

If you are not already running object storage technology, it’s probably best that changes are made. Data is a strategic asset that demands protection and must be available for analysis to yield valuable insights. To turn data into the asset it could potentially be, both …

For many years, financial sector supervisors saw with skepticism the adoption of SupTech—essentially the use of technology-enabled solutions to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of supervisory activities. Many asked “why” they should be investing in these technologies, in a common first reaction to any process …

If your analytics software told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it? That classic parental slam on juvenile plans (at least in my home) probably does little to dissuade kids from doing what they want, just as our analytics software seems to …

Business intelligence software is finding an intensified mission as companies try to forecast beyond the global Covid-19 health pandemic There’s nothing quite like a bit of optimism. It can be infectious, at least in the hands of the right people. It was interesting to see …