Posts Tagged ‘Big Data’

In my recent interactions with IT practitioners and leaders either on the software vendor side or on the business side, a common question keeps coming up. With the rise of Big Data, are data warehouse initiatives dead? My answer to them is a resounding NO. To clear this notion, let us discuss the commonalities which […]

A recent Financial Times article discussed how Admiral, a UK-based insurance company, was planning to leverage Facebook data to offer policy discounts. “The way you write and the things you post online are shaped by your personality,” an Admiral employee said. “An overconfident person will use phrases such as ‘always,’ ‘never,’ and exclamation marks rather […]

Traditional SQL databases and data warehouses have been around for decades and have been doing really well. However, Big Data NoSQL changed the game with big returns for big investments. Concepts like Edge Analytics have been game changers “uberizing” foundational changes in business models. I recently attended a conference hosted by Snowflake, a data warehouse […]

With traditional rules engines and event processing solutions, there is still a significant reliance on IT to implement changes, as the underlying rules engines are often static. Companies are now looking beyond legacy business rules management systems, to options that automatically detect and adjust to business events in data streams. The following include a few […]

An important capability of a services provider such as Perficient is to bring best practices and lessons learned to our customers and our projects. We at Perficient have been very proud of our Big Data capabilities and the transformational journey that we have helped our clients achieve. To better help our clients quickly achieve that […]

A couple of years ago, I read several articles detailing the challenges of Big Data and the confusion around implementation.  The message was as follows: Everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it. Since then, technology and Big […]

Expanding our breadth of Big Data and analytics solutions, Perficient launched a new partnership with Alteryx earlier this year. We’re excited about the opportunities this brings to our customers, given the leadership and innovation Alteryx has shown in visualization, predictive analytics, machine learning, applied statistical analysis and model building. Let’s take a look at some […]

Welcome (back) to my blog as we continue to expound upon Governance and what it means within a business enterprise. To date we’ve defined what Governance is and talked a bit about how the industry supports it through the availability of Frameworks and Guidance for establishing and running a program. Now I’d like to turn […]

According to the American Diabetes Association, nearly 30 million Americans have diabetes and an additional 86 million have pre-diabetes – a precursor to the full disease. These numbers continue to rise as do the medical costs associated with treatment. In fact, medical costs for people with diabetes are twice as high compared to people without […]

This is a traditional chicken or the egg problem, and I would like to put in my 2 cents by trying to address the same question in the information technology era. We see hundreds of new and emerging startups rising every day across all the industries. The secret of success is not coming from any […]

Earlier this week, Oracle upgraded its BI Cloud Service platform as well as DataSync (now version 2.2) for cloud integrations. With those 2 upgrades come great benefits if you have any of the following and looking to do consolidated business analytics from multiple source systems and allow for cross-functional insights: Salesforce: There is no need […]

As head into the fall, industry-watchers will begin releasing market predictions and trends that will define the rest of this year and the year ahead. As cloud adoption and migration continues to grow, so do the industries that depend on cloud technologies including business intelligence and big data. For enterprises, business intelligence and big data […]