Loraine Lawson

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Organizations that reap high return rates on Big Data projects do so by changing operational systems for everybody, rather than “enlightening a few with pretty historical graphs,” according to IT research and consulting firm Wikibon. How do you do that? You stop using Big Data to drive […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Integration isn’t an excuse to avoid trying SaaS enterprise applications, argues principal cloud architect Mike Kavis. “Sometimes enterprise IT executives think their requirements are so different than those of other companies that they cannot be met by a SaaS provider. This thought process is often nothing more […]

Five Predictions for Hybrid Cloud Environments in 2015 CMOs are fed up with SaaS and cloud silos, according to Forbes contributing writer Christine Crandell. That’s why they rank eliminating “the silos and manual work around” as top marketing objectives in 2015 to free up staff for more high-value work. Of course, to do that, they’re […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape If retailers have their way, 2015 really will be the Internet of Things (IoT). A recent survey found that an incredible 96 percent of retail decision makers are ready to make the changes required to adopt IoT technology. Can you think of any other thing where 96 […]

Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2015 Last week was the Consumer Electronics Show, which means this week every industry watcher seems to be freaking out about the Internet of Things. All I can think is, seriously? How did you not see this coming? The most common concern with the Internet of Things is privacy, […]

Four Steps to Ensure Your Big Data Investment Pays Off There’s a lot of talk about Big Data as if it is one entity. We hear: How do you manage Big Data? How do you govern Big Data? What’s the ROI for Big Data? The problem with this is that it puts too much focus […]

Looking Ahead at the 2015 Business Intelligence Landscape Integration isn’t exactly a fast-moving part of IT, so it isn’t usually listed on New Year technology prediction lists. This year, I spied two integration trends among these lists that could potentially shake up IT and the business. First, CIO.com lists deeper ERP integration as a top […]

Six Big Business Intelligence Mistakes Edd Dumbill may have just won the argument over whether data lakes are a practical, achievable idea. Data lakes are a simple enough idea: You dump a wide range of data into a Hadoop cluster and then leverage that across the enterprise. The problem is what Gartner calls the “Data […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps We’re not even one week into 2015, and already Hadoop is being called out for needing to grow up. “Will 2015 be the year Hadoop delivers more broadly on its original promise of rich analytics on big data, or is this the beginning of another Trough of Disillusionment?” […]

Five Ways to Use Data to Be More Relevant to Customers Yesterday, I shared why organizations will focus on data quality in 2015. Now, I’d like to challenge you to adopt improving data quality as your New Year’s goal. You’ll notice that I didn’t say resolution. There will a lot of New Year resolutions broken […]

The Real Life of a Data Scientist “Data is the business” became a common refrain in 2014. The push to be data-driven gave way to data over-consumption, as organizations sought embraced analytics, cloud and Big Data. Will this year’s data exuberance lead to a data hangover in 2015? Some of the predictions I’ve seen lead […]

How to Monetize Data in Five Steps On Christmas morning, I’m up super early to watch my children swarm the stockings and gifts left by that jolly old elf, Santa Claus. Call me a curmudgeon, but I feel like adults could use their own elf. Each November, CIOs could send him a wish list and […]