Loraine Lawson

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off As the Internet of Things comes online, it will almost certainly require changes to how IT manages data, according to Gartner analyst Joe Skorupa. “The enormous number of devices, coupled with the sheer volume, velocity and structure of IoT data, creates challenges, particularly in the […]

Fifteen Hot Social Media Apps for Android APIs are a powerful tool, when you consider how compact the coding is. IT has known this for some time, as APIs have gone from a way to provide services to being the virtual superglue between services and mobile applications. Still, when the Chicago Tribune publishes an article […]

Informatica plans to introduce a new feature that will allow business users to rank data quality using “Amazon-style ratings,” according to a Diginomica article. “… we can allow peer review of data, give other business users the ability to comment on top of the metadata,” says Informatica’s Director of Technology Operations for EMEA, Greg Hanson, […]

Six Key Steps to Build a Successful Digital Business Customer data integration currently is the top barrier to adopting digital marketing technologies, according to a recent survey of senior marketers at global companies. Teradata, an analytics platform vendor, released “Enterprise Priorities in Digital Marketing” this week. It’s based on a global survey conducted by Econsultacy […]

Five Ways Big Data Can Turn Health Data into Actionable Insights The government released 4.4 million medical payment records this week as part of the Open Payments database, and it’s already attracting national headlines and criticisms for being incomplete and slow. It’s a major reminder that while open data may be free, it isn’t necessarily […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Both the business and IT sides may be getting ahead of themselves when it comes to advanced and predictive analytics. Maybe it’s time to slow down and remember that what makes technology projects successful isn’t the technology, but how well the business and IT can align on implementing it. “We […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes For years, colleges’ and universities’ admissions officers placed their faith in SATs and other testing scores as a barometer of who would succeed and who would fail in college. “Faith” is the right word, it turns out. A 2014 report shows that there isn’t a statistically significant correlation between test […]

North America leads the way in Big Data, besting other regions when it comes to investing, according to a new market survey by Gartner. The research firm found that while Big Data experienced international growth last year, North America led with a 9.2 percent jump in the past year. The survey also found that 73 […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps More organizations plan to adopt cloud analytics, according to a 2014 Analytics Market Survey released today by Nucleus Research. That may be good news for vendors and business users — but CIOs should be on guard: This trend has the potential to create integration problems down the road. The […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps Let’s face it: For a long time, IT and legal compliance have been driving data governance. Even though the experts warned that businesses needed to own governance, that didn’t change the basic fact that many of the related tools — including master data management and data quality solutions […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers Crowdsourcing inevitably raises questions about data quality, but a number of companies and experts believe crowdsourcing can be used to improve data quality. GigaOm recently profiled one of these companies, CrowdFlower, after it raised $12.5 million in its Series C round of venture capital […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps Master data management (MDM) isn’t what it used to be. It’s so much more, according to Forrester Analyst Michele Goetz, who wrote about it in a 2014 first quarter report, “The Forrester Wave™: Master Data Management Solutions.” “Prior to 2011, MDM helped enterprises solve challenges pertaining to data […]