The thought of having real-time team data at your fingertips is enough to cause nightmares for a bartender who makes his money from baseball stat hounds. Typically, they argue incessantly over stats. Yet that may be exactly what’s in store for sports fans around the world.
What started as a tool for teams to analyze opponents for upcoming games is slowly being turned into a way for armchair quarterbacks to make sure that they have the best fantasy football team out on the virtual gridiron. Let us take a look at the origins of big sports data and how Microsoft plans to put it in the hands of sports fans. Read More
The New Year is quickly approaching. Not surprisingly, the business intelligence landscape continues to grow and evolve. Let’s take a look at what the New Year might hold in store for BI technology in 2015.
Hail to the Chief
The New Year might find us looking to the rise of the CDO, or Chief Data Officer. Industry experts are predicting that nearly 50% of Fortune 500 companies will be looking to have someone operating in this role in 2015. The CDO’s role is corralling the growing amount of data that now streams into businesses. The CFO will be tasked with overseeing all the moving parts in the data stream, like the gathering, cleaning and storage of data. This role is moving out of the responsibility of the CIO simply because of the amount of time that is needed to cover data management. Look to see news on these new masters of data in the upcoming year. Read More
