The ad hoc promise In a world where businesses live or die on data, self-serve BI is the information super-food we've been waiting for. Or so the rhetoric around this popular tool would have us believe. Also known as data exploration, exploratory data analysis, data discovery and ad hoc reporting, self-serve BI has many names, but one big promise: to radically reduce the time … [Read more...] about How ad-hoc analysis has become the fast food of BI
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Connected & Autonomous Vehicles
Connected & Autonomous Vehicles (co-located with Internet of Things World) returns to Santa Clara on May 14-17, 2018. The auto industry is on the brink of a revolution, and the driving force is the suite of technologies known as the Internet of Things. The co-location of these 2 events allows the entire ecosystem to come together, made up of 12,000 connected technology … [Read more...] about Connected & Autonomous Vehicles
How Future Technology Will Increase the Reach of the Internet
Nothing in the history of the world has equaled the explosive growth of the internet. It has become an integral part of people's daily lives, expanding from 16 million users in 1995 to almost 3.8 billion by March, 2017. The internet boasts more than a billion websites with more added every minute and is used by approximately 40% of people worldwide. However, the internet's … [Read more...] about How Future Technology Will Increase the Reach of the Internet
What does new GDPR European Union law mean for your business?
Today's consumers are more powerful than ever before, and get every bit of information that they can before they make a purchase. The Internet is helping them greatly, and most of the buying is done online. The pace is so rapid that it won't be long before online purchases are more common than offline ones. What does this mean for businesses? You have to unify your marketing … [Read more...] about What does new GDPR European Union law mean for your business?
Recent Cloud Outages Underline The Need For Infrastructure Diversity
Towards the end of February, AWS suffered a serious S3 outage. S3 is a file storage service intimately connected to other Amazon services. Many websites use S3 to store static assets like images and scripts. When S3 became unavailable, the sites that depended on those assets stopped working ” including Amazon's Status Page, which used S3 to store its icons. It's unfortunate … [Read more...] about Recent Cloud Outages Underline The Need For Infrastructure Diversity