Operational BI and Analytics in a Data Driven Enterprise
Posted in: BlogFor a lot of my clients today, the importance of BI and analytics has never been so high. And it’s pretty clear that that opinion is no longer just in middle management. It is also in the boardroom where the belief now appears to be that BI and analytics are mission critical to success. In […]
ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by Mike Ferguson, “A Decade of Hadoop”
Posted in: BlogThis is a ComputerWeekly guest blogpost by analyst Mike Ferguson on the 10th anniversary of Hadoop’s becoming a separate Apache subproject. In the 10 years since Hadoop became an Apache project the momentum behind it as a key component platform in big data analytics has been nothing short of enormous. In that time we have […]
Smart Infrastructure and Smart Applications for the Smart Business
Posted in: BlogOver the last 30+ years I have been in the industry, I can’t remember a time when the IT infrastructure and application landscape of most of my clients has been so complicated. Today we have hardware servers, clusters, virtual servers, storage systems, file systems, databases servers, virtual storage, content management systems, application servers, cloud-based applications, […]
Real-Time Analytics – The Route to Continuous Risk Management and Business Optimisation
Posted in: BlogSeveral surveys this year have indicated a significant rise in the importance of analytics. These include the BI Survey 2014, the 2014 Wisdom of Crowds® Advanced and Predictive Analytics Market Study and the Information Week 2014 Analytics, BI, and Information Management Survey which highlighted the top two factors driving interest in advanced analytics as: The […]
Right-time Business Optimisation – Part 3 (Teradata Partners)
Posted in: VideosMike Ferguson, Intelligent Business Strategies, speaking on Implementing the Smart Business – Part 3

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