2015 was a year of momentous change in the world of data and business intelligence. People started exploring their data with visual analytics. Companies are recognizing the fact that interactive data visualization as one of the top five trends cited by Gartner is changing business intelligence. New conferences and events have started to promote research and best practices in this area, including VAST (Visual Analytics Science & Technology), organized by the 100,000 member IEEE. Continue reading “Tableau helps people to reach insights and collaborate meaningfully” »
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World’s Largest PC Company increased customer lifetime value with Tableau
Today, business analytics have transformed to track, understand and monitor customer behavior. The challenge is to procure most granular details across the regions in the form of dashboards to interpret and understand customer lifetime value. Designing effective dashboards is a challenge of design, usability and efficient insights. Today organizations are looking at increasing customer lifetime value and at the same time invest wisely. Continue reading “World’s Largest PC Company increased customer lifetime value with Tableau” »
HADOOP’S MOMENTUM IS UNSTOPPABLE
Divide and conquer: That’s the simple truth of Hadoop. At its core, Hadoop is a distributed file system and distributed MapReduce processing framework that both stores and processes data by dividing workloads across three, five, or thousands of servers. Forrester defines a big data Hadoop solution as: Continue reading “HADOOP’S MOMENTUM IS UNSTOPPABLE” »
Best Practices for Securing Hadoop
Historically, Apache Hadoop has provided limited security capabilities, and most Hadoop implementations to date have been deployed with little thought given to security. To protect sensitive data being stored and analyzed in Hadoop, security architects should use a structured approach to security as recommended in one of Gartner’s recent research report. Continue reading “Best Practices for Securing Hadoop” »
