Organizations succeed through continuous planning to achieve high levels of performance. For most organizations planning is not an easy process to conduct. Planning software is typically designed for only a few people in the process, such as analysts, or organizations might use spreadsheets, which are not designed for business planning across an organization. Most technologies only allow you to examine the past and not plan for the future. For decades organizations have tried to focus planning...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Operations,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Business Planning,
CFO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
finance,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tidemark,
Workday,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Cloud computing has given business a new way to improve the effectiveness of business processes and ultimately the outcomes of their efforts. In the last five years, business across marketing, customer service, sales, human resources, finance and other areas have embraced the practice of renting access to the applications and technology they need when they need them. Organizations’ use of operational expense budgets helps them get what they need and avoid IT politics or standards that impeded...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Social Media,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Business Applications,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
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Topics:
Big Data,
Kapplets,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Kapow,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
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Topics:
Big Data,
Social Media,
Mobile Technology,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Vitria,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Complex Event Processing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
I recently attended the annual SAS analyst summit to hear the latest company, product and customer growth news from the multi-billion-dollar analytics software provider. This global giant continues to grow its business and solutions to help with fraud prevention, marketing and risk. It lets users apply its analytic and statistical technology in practical applications for business. SAS can meet midsized businesses’ demand with packaging and pricing to ensure it is not seen as only affordable to...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Predictive Analytics,
SAS,
Fraud,
GRC,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Data Integration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Information Management,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Risk,
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
I recently attended the annual Informatica analyst summit to get the latest on that company’s strategy and plans. The data integration provider offers a portfolio of information management software that supports today’s big data and information optimization needs. Informatica is busy making changes in its presentation to the market and its marketing and sales efforts. New executives, including new CMO Marge Breya, are working to communicate what is possible with Informatica’s product portfolio,...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Data Quality,
Master Data Management,
Salesforce.com,
MDM,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Data Governance,
Data Integration,
Data Management,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Informatica,
Information Management,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
CEP,
Informatica Cloud,
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Strata+Hadoop
Data is a commodity in business. To become useful information, data must be put into a specific business context. Without information, today’s businesses can’t function. Without the right information, available to the right people at the right time, an organization cannot make the right decisions nor take the right actions, nor compete effectively and prosper. Information must be crafted and made available to employees, customers, suppliers, partners and consumers in the forms they want it at...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
In-Memory Computing,
Information Management,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Strata+Hadoop,
Digital Technology
The big-data landscape just got a little more interesting with the release of EMC’s Pivotal HD distribution of Hadoop. Pivotal HD takes Apache Hadoop and extends it with a data loader and command center capabilities to configure, deploy, monitor and manage Hadoop. Pivotal HD, from EMC’s Pivotal Labs division, integrates with Greenplum Database, a massively parallel processing (MPP) database from EMC’s Greenplum division, and uses HDFS as the storage technology. The combination should help sites...
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Topics:
Big Data,
EMC,
MapR,
HAWQ,
HDFS,
Pivotal HD,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Hortonworks,
Location Intelligence,
Cirro,
Hive,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Tableau Software,
Strata+Hadoop
SnapLogic, a provider of data integration in the cloud, this week announced Big Data-as-a-Service to address businesses’ needs to integrate and process data across Hadoop big data environments. As our research agenda for 2013 outlines, dealing with data in the cloud is very important to organizations. At the same time, businesses need to be able to integrate their big data with all their technology assets, as I pointed out recently.
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Topics:
Big Data,
R,
Salesforce.com,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
SnapLogic,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Data Integration,
Information Management,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM)
Business is starting to realize that taking advantage of big data is not just technically feasible but affordable by organizations of all sizes. However, as outlined in our agenda on big data and information optimization, the technology must be engineered to the information needs of business. Hortonworks has been steadily advancing its big data technology called Hadoop and contributing its developments back to the Apache Software Foundation for a range of projects. The company performs...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Microsoft,
Talend,
Teradata,
Simba,
Strata Conference,
Business Analytics,
Cloud Computing,
Hortonworks,
Informatica,
HDP,
Hive,
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Tez,
Strata+Hadoop