Big Data

The journey towards the intelligent enterprise  When talking about modern data processing in the digital economy, data is often regarded as the new oil. Enterprise companies are already competing in a race for the best mining, extraction and processing technologies to gain better insights into their…

As technologies go, artificial intelligence is not exactly new. It’s been the fodder for fantasy and science fiction writers for decades, if not centuries. In terms of its actual, real world development, it was born at a technology conference in Dartmouth University in 1956 and has gone through a se…

The Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) era has arrived. AI is one of the top priorities for enterprise IT. Organizations want to extract more intelligence from their data throughout its lifecycle, and AI enables organizations to learn from data and make better, faster decisions.…

Do you ever wish you could just bring someone in that would tell you how to do this whole cloud thing right? A person with the expertise to explain where you should focus your energy, which technologies you should adopt, and how to change your company culture? Someone who already knows where the pot…

If data is the new oil, then more refining capacity is needed.  Many customers are leveraging the data to be part of the core competitive advantage.   However, refining that data to become valuable, actionable information is difficult. Data collection and preparation take an inordinate amount of man…

Marketing, at its core, has always been about people. ‘Digital Marketing’ is something of a misnomer because Marketing is still about people. The digital piece just gives us exciting opportunities to connect with audiences and scale in new ways. Powered, of course, by data. I recently joined Josh Ja…

If data is the new oil, there is one major difference.  Unlike oil, which over the years have suffered from unpredictable supply, for much of the customers, there is only abundance of data.  Despite the glut of data, the same customers profess there is often a shortage of actionable information.  In…

At the end of the day, technology is at its best when it’s helping people – empowering them to accomplish their goals. Whether that’s members of my team envisioning new products or supporting our current ones – or customers doing more with less and being smarter in their business – that’s when…

Analytics is the new source of competitive advantage.  Thomas H. Davenport, author of Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning,  has been writing about analytics for over 10 years.  Unfortunately, even when I attended Cisco Live Barcelona a few weeks ago, many customers from IT are still c…