Analytics

At Demo, Hadoop inventor calls NSA snooping a cautionary tale for devs

When public trust is lost, app use falls off

How to use big data to transform IT operations

Technology that predicts your next security fail

Using cloud-based analytics to juice up sales at Sunny Delight

Sunny Delight’s CIO made a bold move when it was time to pick a cloud analytics service to identify deficiencies in its sales promotions and opportunities for sales growth. He let business managers make the decision.

IoT: Up the stack and into the business realm

Moving aggressively from early adoption toward supporting the world

Geek Joke of the Week

Who knew HTTP could be funny?

Microsoft acquires organizational analytics company VoloMetrix

The acquisition will be used to improve Microsoft's Office 365 productivity tools

Why Power BI is the future of Excel

Excel isn't going away, but it's going to stop accumulating extra tools like barnacles. Instead Power BI Desktop will become the self-service analytics hub.

Feds advance open data roadmap despite challenges

The DATA Act aims to bring transparency to government spending, but officials are mindful of the compliance burden and cultural challenges in effecting reform.

Birst unveils networked BI to transform enterprise analytics

You've got to be fast to get announcements in before the big vendors. Birst is catching a steal on some expected Salesforce announcements this week.