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The things we do with business analytics technology right now do not represent the ultimate purpose for these technologies. It is all very immature, and so it may be useful to some to understand where this current fascination with business analytics is headed. But first of all let me give…

In an effort to improve its overall customer experience, priceline.com, a leader in online and mobile travel, has selected Datameer’s self-service big data analytics solution to better understand customer behavior, analyze offer effectiveness, and improve operational processes. Priceline.com’s business growth has caused extensive increases in data volumes, sources and complexity.…

The word ‘best’ can be fairly meaningless, and so in this Business Intelligence Tools article I have indicated the products that excel in various areas. You will see a graphic displayed at the side of products which offer capability above the norm. This article is a work-in-progress and will be…

Big data analytics is moving on. Until recently it meant wrestling with MapReduce and glueing a dozen or more components together to make a viable big data platform. The big data analytics tools listed below ‘shrink wrap’ big data technologies to some degree and make the whole effort much more…

Predictive Analytics Software Summary Predictive analytics works on the simple notion that historical data contains useful patterns of behavior that can be discovered by apply pattern seeking algorithms to those data. Any candidate patterns can then be tested and validated in various ways, and if found fit, can be used…

We visualize data in charts and graphics because we need information that is not readily available in tables of numbers or written reports. Until recently we have let the computer dictate how information has been presented to us. Computers like numbers and text. They are easily handled, don’t take up…

Self-Service Data Preparation Summary. Once upon a time data was neatly arranged into rows and columns. It was a natural format for the highly structured data that accompanied most administrative functions within the business. Sales orders, employee data, purchase orders, accounting information – each transaction was exactly the same format…

Datameer Review Summary Datameer makes big data, and specifically the Hadoop platform, accessible for business users and analysts. It never was going to be the case that most businesses would employ an army of technicians to wrestle with mapReduce and other aspects of Hadoop, just to make it work. Big…

Big Data Visualization Tools 2015 Big data visualization tools rest on their ability to connect efficiently with big data databases, and manage the data in a useable format. The visualization tools themselves typically facilitate the creation of charts and dashboards, but some offer more advanced forms of analytics such as predictive…