Data + Intelligence

Since the dawn of digital, the consensus has been that the Tier 1 OEM site should drive leads for the dealer group, and the sales conversion should be the responsibility of the dealer. That line of thinking has been accepted as the standard, as the generation of a lead was the furthest down the funnel […]

The Disney Data & Analytics Conference at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort is being held in Orlando, Florida August 20-21, 2019.  This conference introduces attendees to the tools and training needed to integrate advanced decision-making techniques into business processes that center on the experience of customers, clients, and guests. One such tool that you’ll find at […]

The following is the first blog in a series about why healthcare organizations are moving to the cloud. Gone are the days of healthcare organizations wondering if they need to utilize the cloud. They must now decide how to best utilize it. Business and tech leaders report that increasing cloud usage is one of their […]

When standing up a new Cloud Projects environment some of the analytics are not ready for prime time. There are a few steps that need to be performed before they will work. One in particular is the Dashboard Page for CIP Account Analysis. If run out of the box, the Dashboard Page for CIP Account […]

Gartner predicts a whopping 70% growth in artificial intelligence (AI), while niche vendors such as KenSci and viz.ai are shaking industries with their industry specific intelligence. In addition, software vendors such as Informatica and Microsoft are heavily investing in putting pervasive AI in their own technologies to efficiently use their software for better augmented intelligence […]

Microsoft’s investment of $1 billion in OpenAI to build Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) shows a market trend moving towards the next phase of AI. While this has economic benefits of scale, AGI is only possible if software and hardware work together in perfect harmony. In the last decade, the general AI community has been very […]

By now you probably already know that Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) provides several machine learning (ML) algorithms to support predictive analytics with no coding required.  With multiple ML models to choose from in OAC, it is important to know how to compare models.  In this blog post we will discuss how to evaluate and compare […]

What is the Truth? As a decision-maker, how do you handle the data you are given throughout the day?  You may get it in spreadsheets from multiple people in the company, sent at multiple times, telling you different stories.  You may, like a lot of people, just take the data as it comes and then […]

Previously, I analyzed the types of data in a governance program for financial services companies. In this post, I discuss the components needed to design a data governance strategy. A comprehensive program to manage data consists of a number of components: Data Strategy & Architecture A firm-wide repository (data dictionary) should be constructed to catalog […]

Want to connect all of your marketing data in one place in real-time? Attribute revenue directly to campaigns? Or simply make more data-driven decisions? Come learn more about Datorama, the AI-powered marketing intelligence platform serving some of the world’s biggest brands like IBM, Trivago and many more. Eric Dukart, practice director at Perficient, will explain […]

We Don’t Like Change For me, and for a lot of people, when you have to make a change in your daily routine it isn’t welcomed with open arms.  I think it is human nature to find an excuse to get out of making a change, even if that change will help you.  I mean, […]

According to RightScale’s eighth annual survey, “Cloud Computing Trends: 2019 State of the Cloud Survey”, “A significant number of public cloud users are now leveraging services beyond just the basic compute, storage, and network services.” The survey says relational database services is the most popular extended cloud service and “data warehouse moved up significantly to […]