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• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  Spark a natural fit for IoT data analytics

  IoT big data analytics is needed to make sense of the mountains of data coming from industrial equipment and Spark may be up to the task.

• February 05, 2016 05 Feb'16

  Tech teams stop fighting self-service BI technology, users

  At the 2016 TDWI Executive Summit in Las Vegas, business intelligence managers detailed moves by their organizations to embrace self-service BI tools -- and the benefits that followed.

• February 04, 2016 04 Feb'16

  Sell your CEO on business intelligence software tools

  Convincing executives and other workers to adopt business intelligence software remains surprisingly difficult. If you aren't selling BI's benefits internally, that might be one reason why.

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Report highlights growing role for location-mapping software

  A new report from Dresner Advisory Services says businesses see increased value in location intelligence software, but products need to improve.

• January 28, 2016 28 Jan'16

  Data science jobs easy to find, tough to fill

  Data scientist ranks as the top job in America this year, as low supply and high demand mean big money for those who qualify for that emerging IT career.

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• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  How a data-driven company was molded by asset protection

  A data-driven company tends to outperform its competitors, but the asset protection process rarely drives continued evolution of analytics capabilities. Grocery chain Weis Markets is the exception.

• December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15

  How BI development can support quick and nimble businesses

  In an excerpt from his book on BI development and delivery, author Greg Steffine explains why it's important to focus BI initiatives on enabling the business to respond quickly and nimbly to situations.

• December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15

  Need for speed in delivering BI capabilities, author says

  Organizational alignment and teams of BI evangelists who are hyper-responsive to user needs are key to improving business intelligence processes, according to author and BI manager Greg Steffine.

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Top data analysis software and techniques stories of 2015

  As 2015 comes to an end, it's time to review some of the biggest developments and trends in the world of BI and big data, including how sports teams, hospitals and data-driven executives pushed ahead on analytics.

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  Survey: BI and big data professionals ahead of peers on pay

  Employees who have BI and big data jobs are feeling pretty good about them, according to TechTarget's 2015 salary survey. High pay and strong job prospects are a couple reasons why.

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Programming contest taps analytics to mark endangered whales

  This episode of the 'Talking Data' podcast discussed how machine learning is being applied to whale identification as part of a programming contest.

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  How predictive analytics in healthcare can lower readmissions

  UPMC and University of Tennessee Medical Center are benefitting from healthcare analytics to reduce their readmission rates. Here's how they're doing it.

• October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15

  Adoption of self-service BI tools requires convincing

  Getting business users to move away from spreadsheets toward dashboards can be challenging, but pays off in the end when departments collaborate more.

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Tableau users highlight their best dashboard designs

  Modern data visualization tools offer no shortage of data dashboard design options, but Tableau users said that knowing how to use them effectively is key to dashboard adoption.

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  Tableau adds Vizable mobile BI app to seek out more users

  Tableau Software's new Vizable tool is a free mobile business intelligence app for iPad users, which was built as a standalone product from the company's namesake BI platform.