SMBs need help. An IDC survey reported that 80 percent of all SMBs are looking to employ technology to solve business problems. And they need people whom they can trust, as 72 percent of small businesses and 68 percent of medium businesses aren’t satisfied with their current tech. Read More
Will augmented reality be the next big thing for data visualization? If Microsoft has anything to say about it, yes, it will.
Since this blog first published in July 2015, much has happened – but Microsoft still hasn’t released a retail version. Now it appears that it won’t be until 2019 that we’ll see the next version of the HoloLens, according to an article by Tom Warren of The Verge. Yep, that’s three years after developers first got their hands on it.
Up until recently the only way you could see what people using the HoloLens were doing was by attending a Microsoft conference that featured it. But now, according to Warren’s coworker Lauren Goode, Microsoft has released its “spectator view” as an open source solution. Check it out on the HoloLens GitHub page. Read More
Long gone are the days of a meager 4GB of RAM on your desktop or server. The 64-bit architecture of chips and cheap memory prices make stuffing a computer with as much RAM as possible not too expensive a proposition, though DDR4 doesn’t come cheap.
The advantage of having more and faster RAM will be faster internal data transfers, which benefits in-memory applications such as databases – and business intelligence. Read More
Migrating business to the cloud – and how to calm down clients who feared the prospect of change – became a big topic at last year’s Microsoft Worldwide Partners Conference, Izenda members who participated tell us. This year a team from Izenda again will descend on Orlando for WPC 2015. Read More
How many times have you been in a meeting when a questions is asked that you just can’t answer? You know there is a way to get the answer, but it’s not at your fingertips.
For business intelligence and analytics, you might need a specialist in IT or a DBA to manage the data and create a report for you to gain additional knowledge. Even then, what you requested may not be enough to provide the correct answers for the business. You’ll find yourself saying, “I’ll get back to you on that” at the worst time. Read More
As the United States celebrates the Fourth of July holiday, it’s worth analyzing data about travel this weekend. More than 13 percent of the U.S. population is on the move at least 50 miles from home this holiday weekend as America celebrates Independence Day, according to AAA. It’s an increase of 0.7 percent. Read More
Depending on who you are speaking with, analytics means different things to different people. Listening to industry webinars and reading blogs about business intelligence and analytics, it’s clear that not everyone consistently distinguishes between different types of analytics – or even consistently acknowledges that there are different types.
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Dozens of sales and marketing leaders gathered to discuss effectively managing the sales pipeline and all elements of the buyer’s journey at a Technology Association of Georgia (TAG) CMO round table. The conversation included challenges associated with people, process and technology.
Participants in the round table repeatedly brought up measuring the effectiveness of a person’s actions or any single activity. Getting employees at all levels of the organization to use data to inform what they do on a daily basis was clearly desired. On more than one occasion the TAG group members agreed that they’d each like to find the “spotted unicorn” – a data driven content person, i.e., someone who consistently looks at the effectiveness of the content they are producing and applies that information to shape how and what they write next. Read More
A petabyte of data sounds like a wonderful thing – until it’s time to figure out what it all means. The value of embedded business intelligence and analytics is that it helps the organization’s C-suite give end users data that can be comprehended in dashboards and reports.
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Izenda is proud to acknowledge the hard work and achievements of aspiring data scientists and analysts who are currently attending an accredited American educational institution through its scholarship program.
We live in the Age of Analytics, where the growth of data has provided us new insight in healthcare, the environment, political campaigns, and a variety of other worldwide trends. Modern day technology has not only produced more data, but has allowed anybody to explore and draw conclusions of their own from it. Future technologies will provide us with even more insight and capabilities. Read More
