3 capabilities to get more value out of your data

Many organizations have become adept at collecting data at scale, but too few have mastered the art (and science) of filtering the deluge to identify insights and initiate actions that drive favorable business outcomes and increase competitive differentiation. Across industries and enterprises, data continues to explode, increasing in volume, variety, and velocity. According to IDC…

The Developers focus, the Team quickens

Today, we find that there is a common tendency in larger organizations for management and oversight of development projects to be given greater importance than the actual creation of value by people writing, iterating on, and shipping code. It’s not always the case, and sometimes the lowly developer might feel like he or she is…

Understanding Digital Interactions in Real-Time

By Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer, DataStax Enterprises across industries have been obsessed with real-time analytics for some time. The technology that powers this toolset that aims to make critical business decisions quickly is expected to amount to a $50.1 billion market by 2026. It’s no surprise. The insights provided by analytics “in the moment”…

IDC: 4 cloud investment predictions

As cloud adoption has continued to rise in recent years in response to businesses’ need for agility, cost savings, innovation, and digital transformation, organizations are faced with new challenges and opportunities that impact business operations. Presenting at CIO’s recent Future of Cloud event, Dave McCarthy, research vice president, cloud infrastructure services at IDC, shared IDC’s…

7 key Microsoft Azure analytics services (plus one extra)

If you can’t make sense of your business data, you’re effectively flying blind. Insights hidden in your data are essential for optimizing business operations, finetuning your customer experience, and developing new products — or new lines of business, like predictive maintenance. Analytics is the means for discovering those insights, and doing it well requires the…

5 Steps of Evolution in Predictive Analytics

Rates of change in all industries, coupled with enormous macroeconomic pressures, mean stagnation and complacency can be the death of any business. It is important that leaders think big and long term. An essential challenge in this is to use analytics at its best to truly understand what lies ahead. This means a careful approach…

The four pillars of optimised enterprise computing

The world has become far more complicated. For businesses, the need to balance employee safety, changed expectations about how and where we work and the changing threat landscape have changed the very nature of how we use our computers. While users have always wanted safe, reliable and high performing PCs and notebooks, delivering that in…