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In the Information Economy, partnership is critical. With business functionality available to anyone via increasingly vast cloud-based resources, the key to success is execution: getting things done! That's why working with partners can make all the difference in the world as companies look to digitally transform. Check out this episode of QueryThis to hear InsideAnalysis Host @eric_kavanagh inter...

The time finally came! With so much data flowing from so many new sources, the traditional approaches for data integration had to change. While we'll still see lots of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) going on, forward-looking organizations will need to be much more strategic with regards to provisioning data. That's why the time has come for a new term: Data Orchestration? Check out this episode of Q...

The narrative with respect to machine learning is that algorithms will eradicate jobs. A much better description is that machine learning will optimize jobs by handling mountains of tedious work that have bored and annoyed employees for centuries! Learn more about this fast-moving field by checking out today's episode of InsideAnalysis! Host @eric_kavanagh will interview Maurice Kherlakian and Joe...

Who's afraid of the big, bad upgrade? Not the ladies from Sauder Woodworking, that's for sure! The Ohio-based furniture maker of note decided to take the plunge much earlier than most. Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to hear host @eric_kavanagh interview Pam Vocke and Jan Arvay about their ambitious migration to SAP S/4 HANA.

Searching for some tech companies on a roll? Look no further than Looker and Nimbl! The former recently wrapped up their JOIN Conference in San Francisco, where InsideAnalysis Host @eric_kavanagh interviewed their VP of Marketing, Pedro Arellano; along with Chris Vendermeer and Tyler Dewal of PathFactory, one of their many clients. While the latter is doing amazing work migrating customers to SAP'...

Today, modern "data pipelines" are used to fuel mission-critical processes at-scale. These pipelines are much more sophisticated than the atomic process of ETL. And the end result? New business models are possible; old business processes can be reinvented; and lots of time and money can be saved! Check out this episode of Query This with Eric Kavanagh and Mark Van de Wiel of HVR Software & Michael...

Now entering its fourth decade of innovation, opensource software continues to transform the world of business. Once considered the work of hobbyists, this now-pervasive paradigm has since conquered the enterprise in deep and meaningful ways. In fact, Linux now reigns supreme over all other operating systems for industrial-grade enterprise solutions. But Linux was just the beginning. Over the past...

The kids entering the workforce today could be called the Cloud Generation or the Open Source Generation. Nearly every aspect of corporate, government and educational enterprise software designed today either uses open source or evolved from open source coding and is designed to run in a cloud or hybrid cloud environment. Isaac Newton in 1675 once said,  "If I have seen further it is by standing o...

In this episode of InsideAnalysis, Eric Kavanagh and Dr. Robin Bloor discuss Fast Data with Chris Lawless of HVR. Data has been around since the ancient Mesopotamians began keeping track of their crop yields 7000 years ago. Throughout the ages, we have figured out ways to keep track of more & more data for analytical insights hidden within. However, never before in the history of humanity have we...

Should your organization use Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services? Or IBM's new open-source cloud? Or Oracle? Or SAP? Or Heroku? Well, guess what: You can keep your options open! Check out this episode of QueryThis, to learn all about the advantages of a multi-cloud strategy. We'll talk to Anton Els of DBVisit, and Chris Lawless of HVR Software.

The rumors of on-prem's demise have been greatly exaggerated! Rest assured, mountains of data and functionality remain in corporate-owned data centers, and that will not change — much — any time soon. The key to success in this brave, new, cloud-enabled world? To get the right data to the right person at the right time. Sound familiar? Join us today as we talk to Donald Farmer of Treehive Consulti...

The more things change, the harder marketers tend to work! That's especially true these days, as the MarTech 7,000 takes the business world by storm. Yes, that's 7,000 cloud-based solutions now available for optimizing aspects of sales and marketing automation. Across all these new and evolving solutions, one thing's for sure: data is the cornerstone. Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to he...

Imagine how excited those first automobile drivers were as they cruised down the street in their stylish Model T's? Compared to hoofing it, or riding in a horse and carriage, this experience must have been truly awe-inspiring at the dawn of the 20th Century. Now in the earliest stages of the 21st Century, so much has changed. But just like that massive transformation in 1908 when the Model T went...

If you go by the buzz, you'll think for sure that you need a data lake. And that may well be true. But just as mistakes were made in the world of data warehousing, so are mistakes being made in this next generation of data marshaling. The real key is to know your business, know your data, and have a good understanding for where you're headed. And the bottom line these days, is that a data lake can...

Cloud computing has changed every aspect of enterprise software and data management. Companies can offload their data to a cloud and make it easily accessible to users.  With hardware and storage no longer being the bottleneck of the past, companies are putting more and more of their data into the cloud which is great; however, it can be difficult to analyze your structured and unstructured data i...

How safe is data in the cloud? Arguably, the tipping point has already passed, and for lots of reasons. Major cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft can leverage the absolutely best technologies to keep their environments safe. And they can also hire and retain the very top talent. To learn more about this changing dynamic in enterprise data, check out today's episode of InsideAnalysis, a...

In today's episode of Inside Analysis, Eric Kavanagh interviews Asaf Somekh, founder and CEO of Iguazio about the inspiration behind Iguazio and the need to streamline Data Science applications. Somekh refers to "The Luxury of the Tech Giants" when discussing the complexity in their AI and Machine Learning tools, technologies and even standardization which leaves room for companies like Iquazio to...

Most can relate to that sinking yet grateful feeling one gets from a fraud alert notice. The immediacy of the notice can be attributed to the data streaming technology that routes the message event to the customer in real-time. While banks have readily adopted streaming technology to better serve customers, many industries are starting to as well–for reasons that span from gaining an competitive e...

According to the co-founder of Blameless, Lyon Wong, nobody likes being blamed for a problem they didn't create, but it's worse being blamed for a problem because you were the one to identify it. Blameless brings together AI-driven incident resolution, blameless postmortems, SLOs/Error Budgets, and reliability insights reports and dashboards, enabling businesses to optimize reliability and innovat...

One would think the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and social media, in general, would allow people to see important issues from many different perspectives. With so many different opinions from people of different backgrounds, cultures, language & countries, one would think the average social media user would easily and readily get both sides of a picture and be able to formulate a well rounded obj...

Check out this Pilot episode of the ChainGang in which Eric Kavanagh, discusses Blockchain and the Information Economy with Alex Mashinsky and Evren Sel Cakir .

The evolution of civilization has been marked by certain stages; for example, hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrialization, and finally to today's Information Economy. The advent of the modern Internet spurred innovation across the business landscape. One such innovation with the potential to revolutionize transactions within the Information Economy is Blockchain.  The Host of DM Radio and Ins...

Jason Rose , SAP Sarah Austin , Influencer Eric Kavanagh recently returned from SAP Sapphire where the big talk was SAP's recent 8 billion dollar purchase of Qualtrics, a single system of record for all experience data including customer, product, employee, and brand all on one platform.  SAP has always been on top of Operational Data, the 'O' Data as it is often referred. Now they will have detai...

Time was, anyone could do just about anything with their data… or yours! But those days are gone. With the General Data Protection Regulation now well underway, and the California Consumer Privacy Act also in effect, companies the world over need to mind their Ps and Qs, data-wise. Check out this episode of InsideAnalysis to hear host @eric_kavanagh interview several experts, including John Ladley...

Digital transformation has been happening across the world for the last few decades as the traditional brick and mortar companies move from doing business face to face to having a virtual presence. Now, most companies offer their products and services online. The average consumer has had an online experience with one of the larger online companies; such as Facebook, Amazon or Twitter. As a result,...