I’ve heard of “taming data.” But the week before last at Strata I heard it in a new context: taming behavior.… Read more...
definitions
Still a “tool” by any other name
A marketing manager I know stopped me in mid sentence.… Read more...
Skinning “analytics,” the word
“Analytics,” the term, has been twisted so badly that Wayne Eckerson last month felt moved to rescue it with a definition.… Read more...
The Dow of BI
How do we take the pulse of the BI/analytics industry? What if those who promote the technology, advise the clients, and build the systems actually measured their collective progress with a number? It would be an ongoing, forever-updating, simple benchmark. It would be the industry's Dow Jones Industrial Average.
Speaking of the cloud’s mispronouncables
Boris Evelson tweeted a fine question yesterday morning, but it’s too easy: how to define Saas?… Read more...