February 9, 2023 Bringing your Database into the Modern Era The world of database management can be a complex one. Applications continue to be built on top of special-purpose databases that make it hard to merge data. New innovations such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors are generating never-before-seen quantities of data that must be integrated as well. Here we’ll look at how businesses… Read More
February 7, 2023 6 Predictive Analytics Steps to Reduce Customer Churn Keeping customer churn in check is dire, as it typically costs more to acquire a customer than to retain customers. To help businesses retain their customers, data scientists and IT analysts should consider customer churn analysis to better predict customer behavior. Here’s a quick overview of the tools necessary to predict customer churn. #1.… Read More
February 2, 2023 How to Protect Your Cloud Data Platform The Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022, conducted by Ponemon Institute, found that data security breaches now cost companies $4.34 million per incident on average – the highest cost in the 18-year history of the report. Forty-five percent of all breaches were cloud-based. This percentage is likely to increase, given that 43% of… Read More
February 17, 2021 Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Hubs – Do we need another choice? Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Data Hubs - Do we need another choice? There’s a long-standing debate, dating back to the early days of Hadoop, about what kind of data repository is best for a given data analytics use case. A Data Lake? A Data Hub? A Data Warehouse? Despite Hadoop’s fall from grace,… Read More
January 29, 2021 The Best Cloud Data Strategy for Value Which cloud makes sense? Nothing is perfect, but we want to approach perfection with continuous improvement and the management of risk in our business environments. IT capabilities and resources underpin our business environments. On-premise capabilities and cloud capabilities have to deliver a return on investment (ROI) for our efforts and, at the same time,… Read More
