Evaluate

Evaluate

Weigh the pros and cons of technologies, products and projects you are considering.

• Location-based analytics helps orgs zero in on gains

  Location-based analytics may be overlooked right now, but users expect this mapping technology to play a huge role in the future of business. Continue Reading

• GraphLab Create looks to scale machine learning to the enterprise

  GraphLab releases new analytics platform to take machine learning techniques to enterprise scale. Continue Reading

• Retailer revs up analytics with cloud storage system

  Cloud storage systems aren't necessarily at the top of every business list for analytic data stores, but one Japanese retailer has experienced success. Continue Reading

• Gazing into the future of predictive analytics ROI

  Companies are investing in the software to gaze into the future and learn more about customers and business opportunities. Is it prophesy -- or fallacy? Continue Reading

• Hadoop 2, YARN set to shake up data management and analytics

  Consultant Wayne Eckerson says Hadoop 2, with its key YARN component, qualifies as a flexible big data operating system. And it could quickly take the open source framework into the IT mainstream, he predicts. Continue Reading

• Swim with the tides of change to visualize data -- and decisions

  Completing a three-part series on his blue ocean strategy for decision visualization, Lee Feinberg explains how you can take decision making to the next level by giving more people access to business intelligence and data visualization capabilities.Continue Reading

• DIY BI: A guide to self-service business intelligence implementation

  The articles in this guide discuss self-service BI's potential benefits and offer tips for successful deployment and management of self-service tools.Continue Reading

• Analytic technology spurs new ways of marketing

  Marketers are embracing analytic technology rapidly, but there are some key decisions they need to make before going all in.Continue Reading

• Data visualization software deserves a deep look before buying

  Data visualization tools can present information to business users in easy-to-grasp formats. But it isn't a pretty picture if you buy the wrong one.Continue Reading

• R language finds its way into commercial analytics applications

  The scripting language was once relegated to academic stats labs but is now branching out into business analytics uses. Limitations remain, though.Continue Reading

• Changes on the horizon for big data analytics tools

  The market for big data analytics tools remains fragmented, but users are expecting consolidation in the near future.Continue Reading

• Social media analysis: Valuable tool or overhyped technology?

  Companies need to ask some basic questions to determine whether they'll gain business value from social media analytics, says expert Mark Whitehorn.Continue Reading

• Market trends tell the future of predictive analytics deployments

  Predictive analytics employs statistical or machine-learning models to discover patterns and relationships in data, thereby enabling the prediction of future behavior or activity. Long used by credit card companies, predictive analytics -- and now ...Continue Reading

• R language well-suited to analytical data sampling and manipulations

  Analytics expert Mark Whitehorn explains the strengths of R and how to determine if the open source programming language fits your analytics purposes.Continue Reading

• Ensure that big data initiatives are on the right path, right away

  Analyzing pools of big data can help organizations uncover valuable information about customers and other business insights -- but it can also turn into a wild-goose chase if the process isn't well managed. This three-part guide will benefit ...Continue Reading