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• IT managers weigh in on biggest benefits of big data analytics

  Experienced big data project managers and professionals detail the top business benefits that their organizations are getting from deployments of Hadoop and Spark analytics systems. Continue Reading

• Embedded BI tools need to be put in their proper place

  Analyst Howard Dresner discusses the potential business value of embedding business intelligence software in business applications -- and what's limiting the technology's adoption. Continue Reading

• Self-service push drives new data analytics project processes

  SAS consultant and author Jill Dyché discusses how self-service BI and business control of systems affect IT teams and details a novel approach to IT buying that may ease push-pull issues. Continue Reading

• Embedded reporting, BI put analytics data in business users' hands

  Embedded BI software is helping organizations add value to applications and monetize their growing data stores, without requiring end users to turn to separate analytics tools. Continue Reading

• Compelling data story starts with effective visualization of data

  Data visualizations can transform analytics data into actionable business information. But remember to keep things easy to understand and remember your audience, an expert cautions. Continue Reading

• BI pros share to-do items for creating data-driven companies

  Experienced business intelligence and analytics managers offer their thoughts on how to get started on instilling more data-driven management and decision-making processes in organizations.Continue Reading

• Telling data stories calls for common syntax on analytics info

  Data storytelling is just the latest phase in the long history of passing on knowledge to people, expert David A. Teich explains. It's just the tools that have changed.Continue Reading

• Hurdles cited on selling benefits of business intelligence

  IT and business intelligence managers describe the biggest hurdles they face in trying to convince business executives of the benefits of using BI software to drive decision making.Continue Reading

• FullFunnel taps self-service analytics tools, ousts Excel

  Excel is still one of the most widely used BI tools, but marketing services firm FullFunnel found it limiting and switched to self-service analytics tools.Continue Reading

• Shortage of data scientists, big data pros vexes IoT efforts

  There's an abundance of big data technologies that can support Internet of Things projects, but the pool of IT professionals with the advanced know-how to handle massive amounts of IoT data is limited.Continue Reading

• Analytics team structure can work without data scientists

  Despite the value data scientists can bring to a big data analytics team, not every business requires them. Some are using a mix of technology and culture to avoid the need.Continue Reading

• How data analysis techniques power the sharing economy

  Sharing-economy companies like Uber and Airbnb may come to typify the future of business. But they couldn't operate successfully without effective data analysis techniques.Continue Reading

• New business intelligence skills in, BI developers out

  Consultant Lee Feinberg says organizations need to build up their data storytelling and visualization capabilities -- and details a competition for finding people with the right business intelligence skills.Continue Reading

• Cloud-based BI can be a good fit -- for data in the cloud

  Is a cloud BI and analytics strategy the right choice for your organization? That may depend on whether your data is on-premises or already in the cloud.Continue Reading

• IoT analytics guide: Understanding Internet of Things data

  The Internet of Things is about more than self-aware refrigerators. Get insight on managing and analyzing IoT data in business applications.Continue Reading