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Glad to be Part of the Ventana Research Team
Hello! I’m excited to be the newest member of the Ventana Research leadership team to bring research insights and education to the business analytics and technology industry. I’d like to start by...
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Making Sense of the Swirling World of Business Analytics
Our benchmark research on business analytics suggests that it is counterproductive to take a general approach. A better approach is to focus on particular use cases and lines of business (LOB). For...
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Predictive Analytics Move Toward Center Stage
In this second in a blog series on business analytics I focus on the increasingly important area of predictive analytics. Our benchmark research into predictive analytics shows that while the vast...
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Gaining Time-to-Value From Big Data
I had a refreshing call this morning with a vendor that did not revolve around integration of systems, types of data, and the intricacies of NoSQL approaches. Instead, the discussion was about how its...
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Workforce Analytics Does Not Require Big Data – Yet!
Exactly what is the relationship between workforce analytics and big data? Most of the use cases for big data seem to revolve around marketing and customer service, IT, or risk management, where large...
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IBM Cognos Insight Focuses on Discovery and Exploratory Analytics
IBM’s Information on Demand conference last week took over the fifth-largest conference venue in the country at the Mandalay Bay and Resort Convention Center in Las Vegas. During the keynote at the end...
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The Brave New World of Business Intelligence
We recently completed our benchmark research on next-generation business intelligence. Ventana Research looks as next-generation BI as a function of traditional BI that is converging with new...
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The Big Deal is in the 2013 Business Analytics Research Agenda
Did you catch all the big data analogies people used in 2012? There were many, like the refinement of oil analogy, or the spinning straw into gold analogy, and less useful but more entertaining ones,...
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SAP Business Analytics Strategy Built on SAP HANA Delivers Better Business...
SAP just released solid preliminary quarterly and annual revenue numbers, which in many ways can be attributed to a strong strategic vision around the HANA in-memory platform and strong execution...
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Actuate Makes Big Play with BIRT Analytics
Actuate this week announced BIRT Analytics, and thereby puts itself firmly into supporting a range of business analytics needs from data discovery and visualization to a range of data mining and...
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Big Data Analytics Faces a Chasm of Understanding
The challenge with discussing big data analytics is in cutting through the ambiguity that surrounds the term. People often focus on the 3 Vs of big data – volume, variety and velocity – which provides...
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Platfora Aims to Remake the Foundation of Business Intelligence for Big Data
Platfora has gained a lot of buzz in the Big Data analytics market primarily through word of mouth. Late last year the company took the covers off of some impressive and potentially disruptive...
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The Four Pillars of Big Data Analytics
Big data analytics is being offered as the key to addressing a wide array of management and operational needs across business and IT. But the label “big data analytics” is used in a variety of ways,...
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SAS Innovates into the Big Data Analytics Era
SAS Institute held its 24th annual analyst summit last week in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The 37-year-old privately held company is a key player in big data analytics, and company executives showed...
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Oracle Brings Enhancements to Business Intelligence
Responding to the trend that businesses now ask less sophisticated users to perform analysis and rely on software to help them, Oracle recently announced a new release of its flagship Oracle BI...
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Microsoft: Big Data Analytics and Mobile Challenges
Microsoft has been steadily pouring money into big data and business intelligence. The company of course owns the most widely used analytical tool in the world, Microsoft Excel, which our benchmark...
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Information Builders Advances Integration and Analytics for Business...
Information Builders (IBI) was as the highest ranked vendor in Ventana Research’s Business Intelligence Value Index for 2012. The combination of data integration, business analytics, visual and data...
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A Year Makes a Big Difference for Big Data Analytics
Users of big data analytics are finally going public. At the Hadoop Summit last June, many vendors were still speaking of a large retailer or a big bank as users but could not publically disclose their...
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The Personas that Matter the Most in Business Analytics
As a new generation of business professionals embraces a new generation of technology, the line between people and their tools begins to blur. This shift comes as organizations become flatter and...
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Big Data Analytics Research Reveals Benefits of Investment
We recently released our benchmark research on big data analytics, and it sheds light on many of the most important discussions occurring in business technology today. The study’s structure was based...
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