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Analytics

5 questions with Dow’s Melanie Kalmar

By Dan Roberts

Developing a digital culture at U. S. Steel

By Martha Heller

Oracle bakes more automation, analytics into Fusion Cloud ERP, EPM suite

By Anirban Ghoshal
Feature

Best Practices for Selecting Storage Services for Big Data

Big data is fueling the need for ever-growing storage repositories. If you're looking to meet scalability concerns without breaking the bank, selecting a storage platform that can meet the needs of big data can be a challenge–but it doesn't have to be an overwhelming one.
By Frank J. OhlhorstApr, 25 2012
Feature

How to Use Hadoop to Overcome Storage Limitations

Big data is all about storing and accessing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. However, where to put that data and how to access it have become the biggest challenges for enterprises looking to leverage the information. If you haven't yet considererd the open source Hadoop platform, now's the time.
By Frank J. OhlhorstApr, 18 2012
Feature

Big Data in the Real World Isn't So Easy

The pundits make it sound so simple. But CIOs wrestling with overwhelming amounts of unwieldy data know that 'big data' is a big challenge that requires high-quality data, new approaches to data management and more processing power. But the payoff could be a strong competitive advantage.
By Elana VaronApr, 16 2012
Feature

How to Implement Next-Generation Storage Infrastructure for Big Data

Managing the petabyte-scale and larger data stores that are a fact of life with Big Data is a different beast than managing traditional large-scale data infrastructures. Online photo site Shutterfly–which manages more than 30 petabytes of data–shares its strategy for taming the storage beast.
By Thor OlavsrudApr, 16 2012
News

Intuit Brings Big Data to Small Businesses and Consumers

When you think Big Data, products such as QuickBooks and TurboTax may not spring to mind. However, Intuit's 'Big Data for the Little Guy' initiative lets individuals and businesses make queries on the data Intuit has collected from its (willing) users.
By Thor OlavsrudApr, 4 2012
Feature

Big Data Torpedoes Sales Forecasts, Can Cloud Tools Fix the Problem?

Many sales teams have access to automation tools for better visibility. However, when you consider that the average sales rep has from 20 to 50 open sales opportunities at any given time, using those tool have unintended consequences such as escalating the 'Big Data' problem. Cloud-based services may hold the answer.
By Jeff VanceApr, 3 2012
Feature

CIOs Overcome Shortage of Business Analytics Talent

Business intelligence, analytics and big data are all the rage. But those enterprise endeavors require staffers with solid business knowledge, statistical expertise and presentation skills–skills many IT pros don't have. Here's what CIOs are doing to get them.
By Bob ViolinoMar, 27 2012
Feature

5 Business Analytics Tech Trends and How to Exploit Them

Big Data. Faster infrastructure. Falling costs. Mobility. Social media. CIOs at John Hancock, Shopzilla and other organizations say these IT trends are transforming how their companies process data to gain valuable business intelligence.
By David F. CarrMar, 23 2012
News

How to Be Ready for Big Data

Big Data is coming, but for most organizations it's three-to-five years away. That doesn't mean you shouldn't prepare now. Analyzing Big Data will require reference information like that provided by a semantic data model. And once you mine the data, you need to secure it.
By Thor OlavsrudMar, 20 2012
Succeeding in Consumerization of IT

SXSW Highlights Prosumer Trend

Just as employees are utilizing their own devices at work, the prosumer trend encourages employees to use professional apps and improve their skills in areas that benefit them both at work and home.
By Curt FinchMar, 16 2012
News

Can Your Apps Handle an 1,800 Percent Spike in Traffic?

Business customers and users are demanding ever-better performance from websites and applications. However, the majority of CIOs are uncertain they can meet those expectations. Next-generation application performance management (APM) tools can provide the visibility necessary to proactively identify bottlenecks and performance issues before they affect users.
By Thor OlavsrudMar, 16 2012
How-To

5 Ways to Prepare for Big Data With Scale-Out NAS

Excited by the prospect of turning your company's unstructured data into actionable business intelligence? Your first step is to create a storage architecture that can deal with petabytes of data. EMC Isilon's Nick Kirsch says scale-out NAS is the best solution, and he has five tenets he suggests CIOs use to judge it.
By Thor OlavsrudMar, 12 2012
Strategic CIO

How Big Data Can Reduce Big Risk

Using predictive analytics to forecast IT failures is itself fraught with difficulty. But combined with artful human intervention, the tools can work.
By Kim S. NashMar, 7 2012
News

Application Streaming Gets a New Face With Cloudpaging

Application streaming–delivering software on-demand from centralized servers or the cloud–holds great promise, but has proved elusive in practical application. Legacy applications can prove difficult to virtualize and performance has been problematic. But Numecent, a startup born of a DARPA project, aims to change that.
By Thor OlavsrudMar, 5 2012
Feature

Big Data Causes Concern and Big Confusion

A new study suggests many organizations are concerned about managing big data, but most don't have a clear understanding of what big data means. Log management solutions can help organizations make sense of some of the data they're generating, but many resort to syslogs, spreadsheets or nothing at all.
By Thor OlavsrudFeb, 24 2012
News

Inadequate SSL Certificate Data Threatens IT Security

SSL certificates are a fundamental component of secure online transactions, but a new survey finds that a majority of organizations don't know where or how many certificates they actually have, and nearly as many lack an accurate idea of which certificates are about to expire. Venafi CEO Jeff Hudson says this increases organizations' operational, security and audit and compliance risk.
By Thor OlavsrudFeb, 24 2012
Feature

How IBM Sold Business Analytics by Relying Solely on Partners

Dissatisfied with its midmarket efforts in the $90 billion business analytics hardware, software and services global market, IBM shifted all of its sales efforts for that segment to the channel. Big Blue teamed that commitment with a $14 billion investment in business analytics acquisitions in the last six years.
By D.H. KassFeb, 22 2012
Opinion

Accurate Sales Forecasts and Other CRM Fantasies

Every company needs a sales forecast, but generating sound growth projections is devilishly hard, and accuracy depends on rethinking old forecasting processes.n
By David TaberFeb, 16 2012
Feature

How and When to Build a Mobile Website

Mobile technology experts discuss which enterprises need a mobile presence, the important questions to ask when developing a mobile website, what pitfalls to avoid and what to expect to pay.
By Jennifer Lonoff SchiffFeb, 15 2012
Feature

How to Evaluate Enterprise Search Options

An enterprise search platform delivers many benefits, including improved employee productivity, but there are dozen of vendors and three different approaches — specialized, integrated and detached — to consider. Here's how to find the product that best fits your company's search requirements.
By James MartinFeb, 8 2012
Succeeding in Consumerization of IT

Building Better Business Apps: How Apps Impact BYOD

When adjusting to a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) work environment, it’s time to also become more aware of the apps available on these devices.
By Curt FinchJan, 30 2012
Opinion

Why Pricing Should Be Done on More Than Just Instinct

CIO magazine editor in chief Maryfran Johnson discusses her take on pricing and the role the CIO needs to play in this business function
By Maryfran JohnsonJan, 26 2012
Feature

Pricing Done Right

Setting prices is a strategic decision that needs C-level attention. Your profits depend on it.
By Kim S. NashJan, 26 2012
How-To

Top 10 Things to Look for in an SEO Expert

Whether your business is small or large–or somewhere in between–if you rely on Web traffic for sales or marketing, you need to either master search engine optimization (SEO) or you need to hire an SEO specialist. SEO experts from SEO Moz, High Rankings and Raven Internet Marketing Tools offer these 10 tips to help you find the right SEO professional.
By James MartinJan, 23 2012
Tip

To Push Nook Past Kindle, Barnes & Noble Bets on BI

Book retailer Barnes & Noble adds a massive database and improved business intelligence in hopes that a smarter sales team will drive its ereader past Amazon's Kindle.
By Kim S. NashJan, 10 2012
News

American Airlines CIO on Stepping Down Amid Bankruptcy

In this Q&A, CIO Magazine Hall of Fame member and soon-to-be ex-CIO of American Airlines Monte Ford talks about technology influence, cultivating future leaders and feeling sad.
By Kim S. NashDec, 15 2011
Feature

How to Find Out What Employees Really Think

Sentiment analysis software, often used for monitoring customer opinions, can also be used to analyze email and intranets to gauge employee morale. But be forewarned: Employees may see it as Big Brother surveillance.
By Mark RowhNov, 9 2011
Feature

SAP’s Business Objects

Latest version of BI suite tries to fix the disjointed feeling of the user experience.
By Chris KanaracusNov, 2 2011
Tip

Use Analytics to Create a Greener Business

Investing in better analytics can help you turn environmental compliance costs into sustainability benefits
By Elana VaronOct, 28 2011
Analysis

Beyond the Hype of Big Data

CIOs that ignore the big data chatter risk losing a valuable competitive advantage
By Brian HopkinsOct, 28 2011
Tip

How IT Helps Nissan Beat Chevy in the Electric Car Game

By overhauling its customer experience, Nissan was able to drive sales of its electric hatchback, the Leaf.
By Stephanie OverbyOct, 28 2011
How-To

Facebook Tip: How to Block Annoying App and Event Invites

If your Facebook account is overwhelmed with miscellaneous application and event invitations, here's how to quickly and permanently remove them.
By Kristin BurnhamOct, 27 2011
Opinion

Finance and 'Business Improvement' Tech

Carrot or stick? That's the big question when it comes to emerging business-improvement technologies, such as analytics and spend management. Business improvement is the moniker I use for a category that transcends traditional "business intelligence." But whatever you call it, I believe it's how you view these areas, and how you present them to your employees, that will make all the difference in your outcome.
By Sandra GittlenOct, 24 2011
News

Forrester: Tech Changes to Expect in Next 3 Years

Business Intelligence tools, mobile apps and cloud application platforms are areas that will evolve and create significantly more business value between today and 2014, according to a new Forrester report on enterprise technology trends.
By Shane O'NeillOct, 21 2011
News

5 Things CEOs Will Love About the iPhone 4S

While Apple's newest iPhone, iPhone 4S, is an incremental upgrade, business users will like the new features – and will be glad Apple left one feature out.
By Tom KaneshigeOct, 5 2011
News

New on the iPad: The Story of Business Intelligence

Mobile business intelligence app developer Roambi wants to marry the excitement of a magazine narrative with the dryness of business intelligence data on the iPad. The goal is to tell the story behind the numbers.
By Tom KaneshigeSep, 21 2011
Feature

TIBCO CEO: How Real-Time Computing Will Change the Landscape

Tibco CEO Vivek Ranadive talks with IDGE Chief Content Officer John Gallant about why your company needs to move to real-time computing and how TIBCO's 'two-second advantage' can change your business.
By John GallantSep, 20 2011
News

Enterprise Startups: A Long Road Ahead

This year's crop of DEMO startups targeting the enterprise space face big challenges.
By Tom KaneshigeSep, 13 2011
Tip

Taking the Guesswork Out of Mobile BI

Retailer Guess tailors business intelligence applications for the mobile devices they run on and the employees who use them.
By Kim S. NashAug, 31 2011
Feature

What CIOs Should Do About Rogue IT

CIOs no longer control all of a company’s technology choices. But they still need to manage risk and save rogue users from themselves.
By Stephanie OverbyAug, 31 2011
Tip

How to Get Started Using Analytics to Profit From Facebook

Online fashion retailer Tobi integrated data from customers’ Facebook pages and their purchasing histories to better target promotions and increase sales.
By CIO StaffAug, 31 2011
Feature

How KKR Used Data Mining For Competitive Advantage

Unique business intelligence and analytics systems are a popular choice for DIY projects
By Kim S. NashAug, 29 2011
Feature

IT Resume Makeover: Before and After Editions

Second in the series of CIO.com's resume makeovers, certified professional resume writer Jennifer Hay revamps the IT resume of Don Bernal, a data warehousing and business intelligence professional who's been out of the IT industry for four years. Here's an inside look at how Hay addresses the gap in Bernal's employment history and at the before-and-after versions of his resume.
By Meridith LevinsonAug, 29 2011
Feature

Spirits Distributor Serves Up Real-Time Business Intelligence

Charmer Sunbelt Group is using SAP’s new in-memory analytics tool to produce real-time data it hopes will speed up operations and lower costs
By Stephanie OverbyAug, 29 2011
Deciphering Enterprise Apps

What CIOs Need to Know About HP's Acquisition of Autonomy

Here's why you should be paying attention: HP's acquisition of Autonomy is a big analytics play that could help lead the way to making sense of all the unstructured data that's overwhelming enterprises of all sizes, says analyst Charles King.
By Todd R. WeissAug, 24 2011
Forrester for CIOs

Mastering Customer Data: The Next EA Opportunity – And Challenge

It is "The Age of the Customer", firms must master the flow of customer data, collect and analyze it to build differentiation and loyalty and ultimiately improve the customer experience. To do this, companies need the enterprise architect (EA) to forge a close partnership between the business areas leading the charge and IT.
By Forrester ResearchAug, 19 2011
Opinion

How Predictive Analytics Will Improve CRM

By infusing CRM apps with new predictive analytics tools companies will be able to learn much more about their customers' buying habits and desires. And that, says Forrester analyst James Kobielus, will be a worthwhile bonus for your business.
By Todd R. WeissAug, 17 2011
News

ERP Apps Gaining Useful New Social Media Tools

Social media meets ERP, here's what it means to your business and why you should embrace these new ways of connecting with your customers.
By Todd R. WeissAug, 16 2011
Deciphering Enterprise Apps

Enterprise BI Made Simple

Will a simplified version of enterprise business intelligence software spur user adoption? Gartner analyst James Richardson thinks so.
By Todd R. WeissAug, 15 2011
News

Business Apps on the iPhone: Dos and Don'ts

Techies love features and functions; business users are more focused on simplicity and speed. CIOs must seek to balance both worlds when developing a business app for the iPhone.
By Tom KaneshigeAug, 11 2011
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