Ouch. Look out, intuition. Doshi is coming for ya.
In all fairness, I think Doshi’s famous quote is more about the importance of data rather than the irrelevance of intuition. But in recent years, there has been such a focus for businesses to be more data-driven that it’s possible “gut-feelings” are being discouraged.
To truly harness the power of your data, it’s important to fully understand data, insight and analytics, the differences between them and how they impact one another to provide data-driven insight. Read More
The true definition of an ’embedded analytics’ platform is getting lost in translation. The importance, however, increases exponentially quarter-over-quarter.
In reality, fully embeddable BI platforms are in more demand than ever before. Businesses are spending more on embedded analytics, rather than traditional BI tools, and many businesses are looking for embedded analytics within existing applications they already use. Read More
From marketing to finance, data and business intelligence have revolutionized many different industries by providing business owners with the ability to effectively use data. Still, no area shows more promise for harnessing the power of data than health care.
Healthcare analytics have shown the potential to reduce treatment costs, predict epidemics, prevent diseases, and improve patient care and quality of life. Health care professionals, like all other business owners, have the ability to use data-driven insights and a BI solution to improve health care and save lives. Read More
In this week’s brilliant business news…
There is nothing more satisfying than seeing a long-established and behemoth business make a brilliant business move. It doesn’t happen as often as we’d like. But Sears has definitely done it.
Under a newly-created unit of Sears Holdings, Ubiquity Critical Environments, the company will utilize its shuttered Sears and Kmart facilities for data centers, disaster relief sites, and cell phone tower sites. The company has a massive real estate portfolio, with 3,200 properties comprising more than 25 million square feet of space. As dozens of the stores included in this total have closed over the past several decades, Sears hopes to make this conversion a solid shift into the 21st century, digital-based economy.
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Like many startup stories, Izenda began as a business concept drummed up in a college dorm room. The goal: to utilize agile methodologies and software to provide business intelligence to customers on a budget.
Founded in 2002 by Sanjay Bhatia, the company vision changed course a few years later when mounting frustration over the complexity of the industry’s leading reporting databases led to the pursuit of new technology. In 2006, Izenda unveiled and patented a web-based reporting solution that altered the way companies deploy and use intelligence. And the business has been gaining steam ever since. “I didn’t like how difficult the existing databases were to operate and analyze,” said Bhatia, CEO of Izenda. “The world was changing a lot faster than we were. You can’t spend 18 months working on data warehouse for a product that’s only going to be on the market for six months – so technology had to be more agile. That couldn’t be accomplished with the solutions available.” Read More
