Real Time BI used to be hot topic since 10 years ago. As a result of big data phenomenon, data volumes and the diversity of new data sources are exploding. Now it is the emerging Operational Intelligence supports the real time BI on big data.Although visibility into streaming big data by itself is extremely valuable […]

I came across this excellent report titled “Value and benefits of text mining”. The report was commissioned by JISC, “a registered charity and champion the use of digital technologies in UK education and research. The report has “explored the costs, benefits, barriers and risks associated with text mining within UKFHE (UK further and higher education) […]

This would be according to a 2013 study published by Dresner Advisory Services, a research and advisory firm that has been offering compelling research in the area of Business Intelligence since 2007, they published their first Wisdom of Crowds BI Market study in 2010, since then they have been publishing this yearly study which is […]

Banking industry face four major challenges; vast range of customer and varied data related to their transactions, ongoing regulatory changes, increasing consolidation and competition. To address these challenges, banks employ BI solution that helps them to make better business decisions and to better target performance goals. Let’s look at each of them, Data explosion – […]

BI solutions when done properly help SMBs compete with medium and large enterprises by offering a level playing field whether in understanding who are its best customers? Which are the most profitable products or services? Which are the most efficient locations? How much it cost to launch a new product or a territory? Which marketing […]

When planning the course of your business, strategic decisions require more than talent and intuition. These days, titans of industry require solid data to keep the fires stoked and the wheels turning. Calculated decisions are the real means to success, and the faster you make them, the better. But with today’s massive information volumes and […]

In a nutshell, when data virtualization is enabled, an abstraction layer is provided which hides the applications most of the technical aspects of how and where data is stored. Applications do not need to know where all data is physically stored, how the data should be integrated, where the data store server runs, what the […]

Big data is a popular word, but associated with the problem of data sets too big to manage with traditional databases. The parallel has been the NO SQL era that is good for handling unstructured data, scaling, etc. IT shops realize that NOSQL is useful and all, but people really interested in SQL and Its […]