Data analytics has never lacked for coordinates. Filling a spreadsheet with lead scoring algorithms, customer retention costs or predictive conversion metrics is second nature for most B2B marketers.

In the age of big data, visualization tools are vital. With a single glance at a graphic display, a human being can recognize patterns that a computer might fail to find even after hours of analysis.

Pentaho's unique value comes from its unified data integration and business analytics platform. With Pentaho, both IT and line of business users can quickly and easily collaborate and iterate to ...

In this episode of eSpeaks, Jennifer Margles, Director of Product Management at BMC Software, discusses the transition from traditional job scheduling to the era of the autonomous enterprise. eSpeaks’ ...

Through data visualization, it is possible for those who don’t know much about statistical analysis to comprehend big data. Though data visualization can include something as simple as a spreadsheet, ...

Part 1 of CRN's Big Data 100 looks at the companies you need to know in the big data business analytics space. Business analysis software includes the data visualization and business intelligence ...

How Big Data was able to help stop an E. coli outbreak, and what we can learn from that example. It seems you can’t go anywhere these days without hearing about Big Data. It’s a broad term used to ...

The term Big Data is going to become a key part of the forward-looking business technology debate among informed, proactive and ICT savvy executives. But what’s really driving the growing demand for ...

Organizations are embracing data visualization as more than a tool to “see” trends and patterns in data but as a pathway to a dynamic culture of visual data discovery. As with any type of cultural ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. In January 2019, perennially unprofitable Hortonworks closed an ...

Big Data can be defined as the massive amount of structured and unstructured information that a business accumulates daily, spanning anywhere from business transactions to social networking insights.