Want to free up valuable Teradata capacity and save money with Hadoop? This guide explains why shifting ELT to Hadoop—and offloading heavy transformations from Teradata—can dramatically reduce costs, deliver significantly faster and fresher analytics, and speed up response times. Additionally, the guide offers a three-phase approach to help you overcome

The benefits of business analytics are unlimited. However, setting up a self-service business analytics environment takes discipline, a strong plan, the right tools, and more. In this new McKnight Consulting Group white paper by Dell, discover the top five things to consider when discussing self-service BI and why each is

Forrester Research summarizes the most important ingredients that contribute to BI success, and the most typical pitfalls that can derail BI projects—and how to avoid them. File Type: .pdf File Size: 421 KB Duration: 21 pages

Follow @DataconomyMedia According to a recent survey, 67% of companies will move their data to the cloud in the next two years; 1 billion smartphones were sold in 2013, with 1/5th of global internet traffic coming from mobile; and predictions estimating big data to grow at 32.14 percent compound annual

The list of big data applications is never-ending. This week, we reported on how big data is being used to save California’s farms; empower Taiwan’s SME’s; sell wine and spirits in Asia and give better coverage during this year’s Wimbledon tournament. Here are some other highlights of the week in

Business intelligence, or BI as it is commonly referred to, has gained considerable popularity over the past decade. Although the term was first introduced in 1865, and picked up momentum in the mid-late 1980’s, it was only up until the early 1990’s that the phrase entered public discourse. Now it

Follow @DataconomyMedia We met Sammy Shreibati, the Co-Founder and CTO of SaveUp, at the Finovate conference in San Jose. Prior to SaveUp, Sammy was the Director of Engineering at PrepMe, an education company dedicated to bringing high-quality, customized learning to students across the world. Sammy helped PrepMe grow from a

The hype around the term “big data” can be pernicious. The ubiquity of the term, coupled with a lack of understanding about what it actually means, often leads to overly-ambitious expectations of what big data projects can actually achieve. This week, guest contributor Jamal Khawaja aimed to clear the fog

See our pick of the week’s findings below. TOP DATACONOMY ARTICLES Understanding Big Data: Infrastructure In this edition, we’ll be closely examining infrastructural approaches- what they are, how they work and what each approach is best used for. In previous editions we covered the 7 V’s of Big Data, and

Currently, Brian is Sr. Vice President & General Manager of the TIBCO Analytics Product Group within TIBCO Software. Formerly, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jaspersoft, which was acquired by TIBCO in April 2014. Brian joined Jaspersoft in 2005 as its first independent Board member and then became