Larry Marion

Enterprise Collaboration Tools Overload: Too Many Unhappy Users

It’s time for some tough love about collaboration tools. Many users cling to the first- and second- generation toys they know and love, like email and cloud-based...

The 6 Drivers of Analytics ROI

While no one seriously disputes the value of business intelligence/analytics in business, government, education or other nonprofit organizations, the drivers of return on investment appear to be...

IoT Challenges for IT: Big Data Skills and Real-time Processors

When a new technology is prominently discussed on CBS TV’s 60 Minutes, you know it’s hit the peak of the Gartner hype cycle. So it goes with...

Combining Big Data and Cloud: Transforming IT and Business

Sick of hearing and reading the buzzwords du jour: Big Data and cloud computing? Separately they are touted as solving all of the world’s ills, including curing...

Mobile App Development: Pressure on IT Will Increase

Forget about the frenzy surrounding mobile applications development abating or stabilizing anytime soon. Instead, it is going to increase over the next few years. And all of those...

Big Data for the Midmarket: Value In Six Areas

Also see: Choosing a Big Data Solution: Seven Steps Big returns are already being achieved by mid-market companies that have deployed Big Data projects. The Big Data package...

Big Data: Understanding Customer Centricity

Your marketing department will soon be pushing some new buzzwords down the throat of the IT department. The phrases "customer experience" and "customer centricity" are already commonplace...

9 Big Data Lessons Learned

It's time for a Big Data reality check. All of the hype about the profound value and benefits of the ability of new databases, servers,...

Cloud Business Intelligence: Topping 50 Percent Adoption by 2014

The cloud–based Business Intelligence juggernaut is picking up speed. The financial reports of vendors plus a new survey by Dresner Advisory Services make it clear that a...

Sales Data Analytics: Momentum Keeps Building

Sick of those emails and telephone calls from sales people "following up" on a vendor-provided white paper you downloaded out of curiosity and not due to an...

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