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29 Mar, 2018
Ensuring Speed, Flexibility and Agility with Self Service Analytics
29 March, 2018
Patricia L. Saporito
Data Warehousing
Introduction Today’s digital world and fast paced business environment demands pervasive, timely analytics. Organizations must deliver speed, agility and ease of use for data access and analytics. In response, business intelligence (BI) and analytics teams are shifting to a more agile, self-service model that enables greater user access to data and the ability to create and perform individualize
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23 Mar, 2018
Enterprise Architecture Defined
23 March, 2018
Samuel B. Holcman
More Data Geekery
Samuel B. Holcman An enterprise architecture (EA) is a series of conceptual blueprints that defines the structure and operation of an organization to enable strategic progress. Enterprise Architecture (EA) explicitly describes an organization through a set of independent, non-redundant artifacts, defines how these artifacts relate with each other, and develops a set of prioritized, aligned initiat
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15 Mar, 2018
Concepts and Uses of Open Data
15 March, 2018
Paula R. Buchanan
More Data Geekery
The use of open data is becoming more popular. Data management professionals should develop familiarity with the concept, use, and challenges of open data. Introduction The concept of open data is not new, but its use is becoming more prevalent as the availability of sources, and the validity of those sources, grows. Problems often arise because these sources are commercially valuable or can be ag
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5 Mar, 2018
Improving the ROI of Big Data and Analytics through Leveraging new Sources of Data
05 March, 2018
Bart Baesens
Data Warehousing
Investing in new sources of data can help to unravel complex customer behavior and improve key analytical insights Introduction Big Data and Analytics are all around these days. Most companies already have their first analytical models in production and are thinking about further boosting their performance. Far too often, they focus on the analytical techniques rather than on the key ingredient: d
1,796 views
21 Feb, 2018
The Poor State of Data Quality and a Solution
21 February, 2018
Thomas C. Redman
Data Quality
A CONVERSATION WITH TOM REDMAN : Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D. Data quality has been a continual challenge for almost every organization for many years. In this recap of a conversation with Dr. Thomas C. Redman, he offers a possible simple solution. AMS: Subscribers to Data Management University should study “Only 3% of Companies Data Meet Basic Quality Standards” published September 2017 by Tadhg N
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16 Feb, 2018
Differences Between Text and Big Data
16 February, 2018
William H. Inmon
Textual Data Analysis
Text and Big Data are not synonymous, regardless of attempts to force them to be considered as similar. One of the questions that vendors love to ask (and to confuse people with) is combining / mixing Big Data and text. The confusion becomes apparent when the question “Isn’t text the same thing as Big Data?” arises. The short answer is that text can be placed inside Big Data, but Big Da
1,159 views
19 Jan, 2018
Is Data Theft Your Biggest Information Governance Nightmare?
19 January, 2018
Christopher J. Michael
Data Security
Data theft is a serious risk for every organization, regardless of industry or size. Establishing a strong Information Governance framework to defend against this risk is an essential practice. Introduction According to the Washington Post, Insurance Journal and other business sources, a recent study Data Theft by Employees Affects 69% of Businesses of 208 organizations revealed 69 percent “
1,341 views
9 Jan, 2018
Variations on Textual Data
09 January, 2018
William H. Inmon
Textual Data Analysis
Textual data comes in a variety of formats, which information technology (IT) specialists and end-users must be aware of and address when developing and using textual solutions. When you ask a person about processing text, the usual reaction is to simply say – “well you just read text…” Most people do not give a second thought to reading text. They think that text is just text and that
922 views
18 Dec, 2017
Difficult Decisions in Business Analysis: Truth or Dare
18 December, 2017
Dagmar Anne Cole, CBAP
Business Analysis
The Business Analyst plays “Truth or Dare.” Does Dare accept the challenge of an impossible task and possibly discover hidden opportunity or accept the conventional truth and bypass the challenge? Introduction In the game Truth or Dare, a player either responds to a question by telling the truth or is dared to complete a difficult task. Often, the Business Analyst is caught in a game of Truth
2,536 views
8 Dec, 2017
Foundations of Business Analysis
08 December, 2017
Anne Marie Smith, Ph.D.
Business Analysis
Business Analysis is an essential skill that every successful organization must have, since it focuses on determining solutions to business problems using process and proven techniques. Introduction Business analysis is the collection of activities that allow an organization to examine their goals and objectives, and the processes they must use to achieve those goals and objectives. It is the set
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