Big Data
Articles on Big Data Mangement, Analytics, Best Practices and News
Advice for CFOs: Invest in New Technology
"Top Technology Trends for Today's CFO's" is another insightful post from a blogger we frequently feature, Timo Elliott. In it he admits that the CFO relationship with the CEO and other business executives leaves something to be desired. He recommends that CFOs...
Fast Data: How to Gain Insights from Big Data
In this Forbes.com article, Making Big Data Fast, Howard Baldwin makes a great point about data needing to be FAST in order to deliver value. Big data has a historical focus, whereas Fast Data seeks to enable action. For us at OLAP.com, we have seen "fast" as an...
Big Data vs. Fast Data
This article "Which Do We Need More: Big Data or Fast Data?" from Entrepreneur.com shines a light on the buzz word Big Data, and makes a reference to the Fresh Prince of Belair, which is always awesome. The article astutely points out that Big Data is not the answer...
4 Bad BI Habits to Drop in 2015
This article from the Sisense blog has a valuable little list of Bad BI Habits to Break in 2015. To-dos for the new year are suggested, like "embracing big data" and "getting a grip on all data." We tend to agree, because data is going to continue to grow in vastness...
Is HTAP the latest type of OLAP?
Some vendors have run from the four letters OLAP…and yet, articles continue to be published, and assertions made, that “analytical processing” is entering a new phase. There’s a new acronym in the market, HTAP, which stands for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical...
Big Data Collection: What’s in it for Me?
Many of us stand to benefit from certain types of big data collection. In the medical field, big data can be applied in numerous ways, for example: predictive modeling for R&D, enhancing clinical trial design, or conducting Comparative Effectiveness Research...
New Study: Big Data Analytics Will Improve Patient Health Care
Big Data is making waves in almost every industry. On top of the list of crucial industries that Big Data analytics and intelligence could transform is Healthcare. According to a recent study by MeriTalk —The Big Data cure, Big Data will present many changes to the...
Forget big data — let’s talk about all data
We constantly hear people talking about big data as a monstrous mess. They usually describe it as a difficult problem to tackle, as though big data itself has a beginning and an end, or a neat solution. I’ve been to many conferences in the last few weeks, and over and...
