analytics

If data is the fuel for the digital economy, then analytics is the engine that is driving new business insights and outcomes Today, everyone is talking about digital and how we think about business. Our hyper-connected world requires sensing what is happening across your network, and taking timely,…

Today’s financial institutions face an array of challenges — but many of these challenges are balanced by the exciting opportunities available to financial institutions that embrace digital business transformation, re-introducing human connectivity, and leveraging digitization as a competitive advan…

Controlling quality in a complex manufacturing environment moving at light speed is not easy, but it needs to be done. Any time there’s a recall, it affects your brand and the trust your customers have with your products. True quality control is fixing problems inside of your 4 walls. Imagine you ha…

Historically, organizations operated using only structured data methodically gathered and maintained within their own data centers. Now they are deluged with data from everywhere —both structured and unstructured – and from any device or sensor and at any time. Now, with the move toward digital busi…

Sydney Summit Portends What’s Important In 2016 I just returned from Sydney, Australia, where I attended the Gartner Business Intelligence, Analytics and Information Management Summit.  Sydney is the first of seven Gartner BI and Analytics Summits that take place throughout the globe each year. As s…

The complexity of ‘digital disruption’ is challenging financial institutions to seek new ways to manage critical areas of their business. Banks know they must leverage new digital capabilities in order to satisfy consumer demand and maintain an optimal risk and expense structure. Now more than ever,…

We hear terms like digitalization, digital business or digital transformation all over the place. But they are more than just buzz words. At Cisco, we are on a mission to help our customers transform their business so they can lead their industries. As Gartner defines it, “Digital business is the cr…

Last week, in part 1 of this 3 part series, we discussed how Digitization* is driving change. We also covered how Changes (cue** David Bowie) are manifesting themselves in the shifting shape of Applications, which are the raison d’etre for the Data Center. Deconstructing Apps: Scale  As traditional…

The complexity of the Internet of Things (IoT) is challenging enterprises to seek new ways to manage and leverage their data. There is an explosion of data being created everywhere—from traditional data warehouses, the cloud, and even the very edge of the network. To remain competitive in this hyper…