Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2013

'The most common mistakes digital practitioners and leaders make is to either do things in the wrong order, or to try and do too much at one time. Progress in digital marketing and analytics in either scenario becomes painful (the organization / systems / thinking is simply not in the optimal position). People become frustrated (you hire smart people, they run off to build you the Taj Mahal, meanwhile you don't have a functioning toilet).

Marketing 165

Marketing Analytics Key Performance Indicator Optimization 165

Howard Dresner

DECEMBER 14, 2013

I guess Black Friday, January sales and constant reminders of how many shopping days are left before Christmas weren’t enough enough to entice shoppers to hit the stores early and often enough in the holiday season. Now we even have Pre-Black Friday and Green Monday. These seductive tactics to entice people with something “special” reminded me of a discussion we had at one my Friday #BIWisdom tweetchats.

Business Intelligence 50

Business Intelligence Sales Data Processing Dashboards 50

Nutanix

DECEMBER 28, 2013

There’s no question that enterprise application usability has for the most part been left behind.

Enterprise 20

Enterprise 20

Howard Dresner

DECEMBER 14, 2013

The topic of how to increase user adoption of business intelligence technologies generated a lot of opinions in a recent Friday #BIWisdom tweetchat. The tweets started with opinions about what hampers user adoption. Some tweeted that the tangling of BI into the Big Data space causes confusion, it’s a mistake to try to get end users to adopt “analyst tools” and we must stop force-feeding generic analysis tools to end users even if they are “simple” to use.

Business Intelligence 40

Business Intelligence Interactive Predictive Analytics Data Processing 40

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Nutanix

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I work for arguably the hottest infrastructure startup since the dawn of time (or Sun Microsystems, 30 years ago, or whatever), a company called Nutanix.

Modeling 20

Modeling Software 20

Nutanix

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Nutanix recently launched the NX-7000 series platform that incorporates one or multiple Nvidia Grid K1 or K2 cards into a Nutanix node. This combination of the shared or dedicated horsepower of a purpose-built GPU card allows for scale-on-success GPU-enabled virtual desktop solutions.

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