So, we all remember our 'happily ever afters' don't we? I have the third instalment in the Information Management story; it’s tantamount to a scandal in my eyes! Enter into the field of ‘Big Data’ where, vendors slug it out over who can...
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Data Fairy tales – Episode 2 ‘The Single View of the Truth’
So, we all remember our 'happily ever afters' don't we? I have the second instalment in the Information Management story; another epic but this time with a wicked twist at the end! Cue the ‘Single View of the truth’ and, I have to say, the...
Read morePredictive Analytics: Harnessing Information to Gain True Insight
by Scott Schlesinger, Head of Business Information Management for North America, CapgeminiIDC has estimated the global Predictive Analytics (PA) market to be approx. $1.5b and growing at a compound annual rate of 7%. This growth surpasses what has...
Read moreBig Promise: addressing the Big Data challenge
The big data market is exploding in terms of marketing hype turning big data into a big promise. However to quote a prospective customer: “we have lots of data but little results”. When talking about Big Data the issue of increasing volume is...
Read moreAnalysis of Data is Not the First Step
with contributions from Todd Heil and Ed PattersonData Analysis is the practice of ordering and organizing data into information, and identifying and delivering that information to the right decision maker so that useful business insight can be...
Read moreBig Data vendors and technologies, the list!
Now my summer holidays are done, I want to publish the list of vendors or technologies active in the Big Data space. I have organized them following the five Big Data steps. You’ll find a full description of each Big Data step in my No SQL, No...
Read moreUsing Business Analytics to Get More Out of My Collection Agency
Balancing multiple collection agencies can be a struggle even for the most organized Credit Executive. When you’re dealing with placing high volumes of accounts, the problem grows exponentially. For example, if your business is utilities, the...
Read moreMDM is about cultural change not technology
'Culture eats strategy for breakfast' attributed to either Peter Drucker or Henry Ford and popularised by Mark Fields is something that every MDM project should have on their wall with one addition... Culture eats strategy and technology for...
Read moreManipulating Data - what Olympic medals tables tell us
One of the truisms is that one by British PM Disraeli is 'lies, damned lies and statistics' the point being that you can manipulate statistics to show what you want. The London 2012 Olympics (which as a Brit who attended one of the events with his...
Read moreWhy SAP MDG is different - taking a central authoring approach to MDM
Most MDM solutions out there take a collaborative approach to MDM, by this I mean that they accept that other systems have master data in them and elements such as survivorship and matching are used to identify and manage the information from these...
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