The need for businesses to process and analyze data has grown in intensity along with the volumes of data they are amassing. Our benchmark research consistently shows that preparing data is the most widespread impediment to analytic and operational efficiency. In our recent research on data and analytics in the cloud, more than half (55%) of organizations said that preparing data for analysis is a major impediment, followed by other preparatory tasks: reviewing data for quality and consistency...
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Topics:
Big Data,
Human Capital,
Marketing,
Monarch,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Data Preparation,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Uncategorized,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
Big data has become a big deal as the technology industry has invested tens of billions of dollars to create the next generation of databases and data processing. After the accompanying flood of new categories and marketing terminology from vendors, most in the IT community are now beginning to understand the potential of big data. Ventana Research thoroughly covered the evolving state of the big data and information optimization sector in 2014 and will continue this research in 2015 and...
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Topics:
Big Data,
MapR,
Predictive Analytics,
SAP,
Human Capital,
Mulesoft,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Paxata,
SnapLogic,
Splunk,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Cloudera,
Hortonworks,
IBM,
Informatica,
Information Management,
Operational Intelligence,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Dell Boomi,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Savi,
Sumo Logic,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Tamr,
Trifacta,
Strata+Hadoop
In the realm of technology that matters for business and IT, our firm as part of our responsibility continually assesses the latest technology and how it can impact organizations’ efficiency and effectiveness. Our benchmark research in technology innovation found that 87% of participants indicated the importance of increasing the organization’s value through technology innovation. Every year we take our knowledge from research and technology briefings to focus on our Technology Innovation Awards
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Topics:
Big Data,
Datameer,
Mobile,
Sales,
Social Media,
Sustainability,
Customer,
ESRI,
Globoforce,
GRC,
HCM,
Kronos,
Kyriba,
Location Analytics,
Marketing,
NetBase,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Overall Operational Leadership,
Peoplefluent,
Planview,
SQLstream,
VMWare,
VPI,
IT Analytics & Performance,
Analytics,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Collaboration,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Hortonworks,
IBM,
Informatica,
Information Builders,
Information Management,
Information Technology,
KXEN,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Oracle,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Contact Center,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Johnson Controls Panoptix,
Roambi,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Service & Supply Chain,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Upstream Works,
Vertex,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM),
Xactly
Business analytics can help organizations use data to find insights that lead to new opportunities and address issues unrecognized before. One player in this market is Datawatch, known for its tools for information optimization and harvesting value from big data including content and documents. I assessed the company earlier this year, and recently our firm recognized its customers’ achievements with 2013 Ventana Research Leadership Awards for Information Optimization with Phelps County...
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Topics:
Big Data,
SAP,
GRC,
Office of Finance,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Panopticon,
Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Information Management,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
CEP,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Discovery,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
Information Optimization,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
SAP HANA,
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
When organizations need to optimize their business processes and improve operations and decisions, the often speak of having the right information at the right time, but don’t always make that a priority. This information optimization is often thought to be expensive and time-consuming, especially with advent of big data and disparate data sources across cloud and on-premises environments, as I have articulated. Datawatch can help business get to information of any variety or volume at any time...
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Topics:
Big Data,
MapR,
QlikView,
Cloud Computing,
Information Management,
Uncategorized,
Datawatch,
Information Optimization
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Topics:
Big Data,
SAP,
Social Media,
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Peoplefluent,
Planview,
Research,
Splunk,
Business Analytics,
Business Collaboration,
Business Intelligence,
Business Mobility,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
IBM,
Location Intelligence,
Operational Intelligence,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Ceridian,
CFO,
CMO,
COO,
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Saba,
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM),
Technology,
Workforce Performance Management (WPM)
Thanks to Datawatch, businesses may find themselves buying and deploying fewer new business analytics and business intelligence tools. As I noted in my analysis last year, the company’s new management has begun to transition it to a more appealing market position in which it helps enterprises use analytics to improve operational efficiency and decision-making. The Datawatch products focus on data virtualization – that is, accessing data from multiple sources not usually seen as accessible for...
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Topics:
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Business Technology,
CIO,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Information Applications,
Information Management,
Information Technology,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
Turning data into information for taking actions and making decisions has bedeviled businesses throughout the computer age. Many organizations have data in dozens of applications and legacy systems along with many reports in various business intelligence systems. The challenge is to get data from each of the reports and assemble it into contextualized views of information for particular business needs. In our benchmark research on what we call information applications, only 11 percent of...
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Topics:
Operational Performance Management (OPM),
Reporting,
Business Analytics,
Business Intelligence,
Cloud Computing,
Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC),
Information Applications,
Business Performance Management (BPM),
Customer Performance Management (CPM),
Datawatch,
Document Management,
Financial Performance Management (FPM),
Information Applications (IA),
Information Management (IM),
IT Performance Management (ITPM),
Sales Performance Management (SPM),
Supply Chain Performance Management (SCPM)
