Business Intelligence
It Takes a Team and a Leader
A data warehouse is a system used for reporting and data analysis. It is considered a core component of business intelligence. Unfortunately in many cases, these efforts are getting disrupted, stalled or stopped altogether. DATAVERSITY brought this interesting information to us in their article, “Four Ways to Kill a Data Warehouse.” There are my suppositions as to…
Read MoreBusiness Intelligence Specialist Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, ontology, and other information management areas, we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and…
Read MoreCloud Computing Impacts Business Intelligence
The cloud computing industry continues to evolve. Demand for cloud providers and their technology has grown exponentially and therefore has forced them to focus on improving business intelligence for their customers. Smart Data Collective brought this news to us in their article, “Cloud Metadata Is Making Waves with Business Intelligence.” The 2016 Gartner Critical Capabilities report…
Read MoreStandards Were Affirmed by the Courts
The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), the coordinator of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment system, was pleased to support the recent U.S. District Court ruling in favor of ASTM International, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), whose standards are incorporated into federal law. This…
Read MoreNew Webinar Series Address Analytics
DATAVERSITY will be hosting a monthly webinar series in 2017 called Data Insights & Analytics. The free webinars will be facilitated by Kelle O’Neal and John Ladley and held on the first Thursday of every month at 2:00 p.m. (EST) beginning January 5, 2017. Each of the webinars will provide educational resources and insights into the strategy,…
Read MoreInformation Vulnerability Career Opportunity
To be as helpful as possible to those in the fields of taxonomy, indexing, information management, etc., we are sharing career opportunities that we find with our readers. Even if you are not in the market for a career move, it is always good to stay on top of what is available and how the fields…
Read MoreSubject Matter Experts
There is a constant struggle in IT between vendors and users. They seek to find a common language outside technical speak to define what IT can offer and, on the flip side, what users actually need. This interesting topic came to us from diginomica in their article, “Tech talk – the taxonomy of yesterday.” Traditional…
Read MoreEnterprise Data Governance Online Event
2016 is coming to a close so it is time to start filling your calendar for 2017, before someone else does it for you. Now is a good time to save the date for the 2nd annual Enterprise Data Governance Online Event (EDGO). January 25th, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. (PST) should be on your…
Read MoreUnderstanding Your Data
Data understanding is the knowledge you have about data and the needs the data will satisfy. There is no tool or artifact for data understanding. It is expressed in business glossaries, data dictionaries, models and other forms of metadata or other places where information about the data is stored. CIO brought this news to us in…
Read MoreNew Ways to Collaborate
Kristen Ratan and Adam Hyde have launched the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to evolve how scholarship is created, produced and reported. This interesting information came to us from The Scholarly Kitchen in their article, “Can You Coko? An Interview with Kristen Ratan of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation.” The Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (CKF), also known as Coko,…
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