Finding Business Insights in Machine Data
A large amount of data is now being created by Web servers, point of sale systems, RFID sensors, networks, and a variety of other systems that have long been used […]
How Machine Data and Operational Intelligence Can Supercharge Business Applications, Part I
Imagine that all your business apps were people, seated in an auditorium ready to hear a speech. Here’s what I would say to them about machine data: Imagine that all […]
Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, Explains How Social Business + BPM + Mobile + Existing Apps = Worksocial
Early Adopter Research sat down with Matt Calkins, CEO of Appian, to discuss the convergence of social business, BPM, mobile, and existing applications to create a new concept called worksocial. […]
How Machine Data and Operational Intelligence Can Supercharge Business Applications, Part II
How people can use a data fabric like Splunk to take machine data and use it to improve operational intelligence In the first article in this series, I explained what […]
Signal Hubs: The Next Generation of Machine-Learning
The massive firepower of big data processing systems to distill enormous amounts of data is being combined with real-time information. There is a convergence taking place in cutting-edge applications: The […]
Big Data Isn’t Just for Big Companies
Wal-Mart had a big data problem before it was called “big data.” So did McDonald’s and any number of other massive companies. Big Data Problems From very early on, Wal-Mart […]
Creating a Vascular System for External Big Data
Start planning for a world where signals are harvested from external repositories through APIs with built-in analytics. It is time for CIOs and CTOs to start planning for a world […]
What BI Stays, and What Goes?
The idea that we won’t have to clean and disambiguate data is ludicrous. We’ve lived with enterprise business intelligence (BI) for several decades now, and it’s no secret that many […]
What Is a Data Scientist? A video interview with Dan Woods
Data scientists are needed to help turn big data into a richer model of the customer. What is a data scientist? That’s the question asked of Dan Woods in this […]
How to Find and Use External Data
The first draft of a program for finding and making use of external data to improve business results. In the Forbes article “Do You Suffer From the ‘Data Not Invented […]