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May 12, 2015

MSPs and Cloud-based Analytics

May 12, 2015/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for IBM for MSPs explains that by offering analytics as embedded functionality within their existing cloud-based services, MSPs can empower their customers and build a competitive advantage.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
IBM for MSPs, Cloud, Analytics
December 09, 2014

Big Blue betas Watson Analytics

December 09, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program discusses the public beta release of IBM Watson Analytics.

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Sponsored Blog Posts, Vendors
IBM for Midsize Business, IBM, Analytics, Cloud
November 25, 2014

Is Verse the next Chapter in Email?

November 25, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program discusses Verse, IBM’s attempt to transform the future of work and reinvent enterprise email with a new social collaboration tool.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
IBM, IBM for Midsize Business, Email, Mobile, Analytics
November 20, 2014

It’s Not about being Data-Driven

November 20, 2014/ Jim Harris

This post explains that becoming a successful organization in any industry is not about being data-driven, but whether data, and regardless of its source, is driving your organization to make better business decisions.

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November 20, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 3 Comments
Data Quality, Books
Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence
November 18, 2014

Transforming your Business with Analytics

November 18, 2014/ Jim Harris

This SAS sponsored blog post explores why even though more organizations are embracing analytics many are not achieving an enterprise-wide view of their business, which requires a cultural commitment to derive the most value from data.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
SAS, Big Data, Analytics
November 06, 2014

Data-Driven Intuition

November 06, 2014/ Jim Harris

This post, inspired by Jeffrey Ma’s book The House Advantage: Playing the Odds to Win Big In Business, explores the possibility that our intuition has always been more data-driven than we gave it credit for.

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November 06, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 1 Comment
Data Quality, Books
Big Data, Analytics, Business Intelligence
October 14, 2014

Big Data Island Hopping with Hadoop

October 14, 2014/ Jim Harris

This SAS sponsored blog post explains that Hadoop can help organizations gather and analyze data from a variety of different sources in order to find the best data available to help solve a particular business problem.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
SAS, Big Data, Analytics
September 18, 2014

Making Analytics Elementary with Watson

September 18, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program discusses Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service from IBM that can provide instant access to powerful predictive and visual analytic tools for businesses.

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Vendors, Sponsored Blog Posts
IBM for Midsize Business, IBM, Analytics
September 09, 2014

Four Myths about IT and Analytics

September 09, 2014/ Jim Harris

This SAS sponsored blog post looks at four myths about the role of an organization’s information technology (IT) group in relation to big data and analytics, and provides recommendations on how IT groups can directly address those myths.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
Big Data, SAS, Analytics
August 29, 2014

Analytics Across the Enterprise

August 29, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program highlights just three of the many key concepts covered in the book Analytics Across the Enterprise: How IBM Realizes Business Value from Big Data and Analytics.

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Books, Sponsored Blog Posts, Vendors
Big Data, Analytics, IBM for Midsize Business, IBM
August 21, 2014

Big Data and Analytics in Three Verbs

August 21, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program summarizes a study by the IBM Institute for Business Value about how leading midsize businesses are converting big data and analytics into results.

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Sponsored Blog Posts, Vendors
IBM for Midsize Business, IBM, Big Data, Analytics
August 05, 2014

How Cultured is Your Organization about Analytics?

August 05, 2014/ Jim Harris

This SAS sponsored blog post explains the key role that corporate culture plays in data analytics and provides five questions that you can use to analyze your organization’s culture about its perspectives on data and analytics.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
SAS, Big Data, Analytics
July 29, 2014

Data-driven Illusions

July 29, 2014/ Jim Harris

This post ponders how the focusing illusion, the illusion-of-truth effect, and the illusion-of-quality effect can affect the metrics your organization is relying on to support its data-driven business decisions.

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July 29, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 1 Comment
Data Quality, Books
Analytics, Metrics
July 24, 2014

Busting 3 Big Data Myths for Midsize Businesses

July 24, 2014/ Jim Harris

This sponsored blog post for the IBM for Midsize Business program takes on three common misconceptions about big data.

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Sponsored Blog Posts
IBM for Midsize Business, Big Data, Analytics
July 17, 2014

Data isn’t Everything

July 17, 2014/ Jim Harris

This cautionary post, based on a Wired article by Felix Salmon, is a reminder that while becoming data-driven is a laudable goal, be wary of becoming too driven by data.

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July 17, 2014/ Jim Harris/ 1 Comment
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Obsessive-Compulsive Data Quality (OCDQ) is a blog offering a vendor-neutral perspective on data quality and its related disciplines.

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