What is a business analyst? Business analysts are responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders. The International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), a nonprofit professional association, considers the business analyst “an agent of change,”…
How can you tell the difference between a legitimate email and a phishing attack? Host Steve Ragan shows what an Apple phishing attack looks like, screen by screen, showing the difference between the real and the fake. Read More from This Article: What an Apple phishing attack looks like | Salted Hash Ep 32 …
When Sanjay Shringarpure joined E. & J. Gallo Winery as CIO in 2015, he was curious about the cadence of the business. “I wanted to know what our cycles were for budgeting, sales and production, so that IT could develop a matching rhythm,” he says. He knew that if the company were in harvest mode,…
Courting new technologies is a risk for IT leaders, who must wisely allocate finite budgets to hardware, software and services they believe will support business operations. Bad bets can set the company back years and ultimately prove catastrophic for CIOs. This is particularly true in the digital era, as a proliferation of newer technologies such…
What is predictive analytics? Predictive analytics is a category of data analytics aimed at making predictions about future outcomes based on historical data and analytics techniques such as statistical modeling and machine learning. The science of predictive analytics can generate future insights with a significant degree of precision. With the help of sophisticated predictive analytics…