Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

The single biggest mistake web analysts make is working without purpose. We work very hard. We torture SiteCatalyst. We send out a lot of data. Then we resend it again and again. And yet our work results in very little impact on the business in terms of action taken by company leaders. Why this sad state? Almost always we dive into the ocean of data first.

IT 139

IT Measurement Marketing Metrics 139

Howard Dresner

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

As we enter our second week of data collection for the third annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® - I thought I might share an early insight from data collected this far. Data collection continues until April 2, 2012. >>> Please click here to take the survey >> Please click here to take the survey <<< Thanks!!

Business Intelligence 56

Business Intelligence Marketing Data Collection 56

Nutanix

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

So far I love the platform. It gave me what I needed in the price point I needed and offers huge scale out options.

IT 20

IT 20

Edwin Chen

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Scalding is an in-house MapReduce framework that Twitter recently open-sourced. Like Pig , it provides an abstraction on top of MapReduce that makes it easy to write big data jobs in a syntax that’s simple and concise. Unlike Pig, Scalding is written in pure Scala – which means all the power of Scala and the JVM is already built-in. No more UDFs, folks!

Measurement 77

Measurement Big Data IT 77

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Howard Dresner

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Hello Folks! I am pleased to announce that the survey process for the 3rd annual Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study ® is now officially open for input! Like last year, you'll have an opportunity to evaluate your Business Intelligence software vendors on 32 essential criteria, plus a new "Integrity" measure. And, this year we've expanded the study to cover a wide range of important Business Intelligence issues, including Collaborative BI and Cloud BI.

Business Intelligence 40

Business Intelligence Marketing Measurement Software 40

Nutanix

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

How do we manage a very large and complex product that could potentially have hundreds or thousands of entities?

Statistics 20

Statistics Management 20

Nutanix

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Manageability, an often under-represented facet is key in making a VDI deployment successful.

Management 20

Management 20