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The Many Faces of Data Relationships

While having a many-to-many relationship may sound steamy to some of you, when it comes to the data in your tables it can get complicated. That is, unless you understand the different scenarios, their resolutions, and how to build a good relationship with your data. Just as a general overview, a relationship specifies the logic used to combine data from one or more tables. You create relationships by connecting fields between two…

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What do we predict for the Indian Analytics Industry this year? Here is what we put together at IVY after talking with our analytics recruiters, alumni, clients, and industry associates:…

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Read the Preface for Siegel’s Book – Predictive Analytics

Here is the preface for Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Who Will Click, Buy, Lie, or Die

By Eric Siegel, with a foreword from Tom Davenport

(Wiley, February 2013)

 

To order the book:…

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@TRUE_BI Next Week: Free Webinar. LITEBI New Business Intelligence Tool in the Cloud. EN: http://goo.gl/jiu3H SPA http://goo.gl/IPkcI

Appirio, a company that helps enterprise customers leverage PaaS cloud platforms such as Salesforce.com and Google Apps, put a nice interactive navigator on their website. The Appirio cloud computing ecosystem map aims to provide more clarity in the fast evolving cloud services market. It tries to help enterprise decision makers to accelerate their adoption of the cloud by trying to provide a standard taxonomy.…



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I'm sure this is probably already old news here, but wanted to share a recent report from the Gartner Group. Advanced Analytics and Cloud Computing - the top two forecasted strategic technology trends.
http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1210613
How many organizations are not yet taking advantage of either or both of these technologies?

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:



And the customer is...

A critical first step for your company is to develop your definition of a customer. Don't underestimate either the importance or the difficulty of this process. And don't assume it is simply a matter of semantics. Some of my consulting clients have indignantly told me: “We don't need to define it, everyone in our company knows exactly what a… Continue

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Clouds mean better education in Ethiopia. 250,000 teachers nationwide can download curriculum, keep track of academic records and securely transfer student data throughout the education system. Now need to track performance and apply learning analytics.



• “As U.S. companies start… Continue

An occasional series in which a review of recent posts on SmartData Collective reveals the following nuggets:



Cloudy days ahead

The question is not, will cloud computing happen, but rather, how will this tendency unfold, and how will organizations, regulators, and other actors respond? Until the rhetoric and more important the base of experience moves beyond the current state of pilots and vaporware, the range of potential outcomes is too vast to bet on with any serious… Continue

ADAPA® Predictive Analytics Scoring Engine - Security on Amazon EC2?



Many of our customers ask: “What about security on the Amazon EC2 Cloud?” Security is always the first consideration. The short answer is "yes."



The security processes implemented by Amazon Web Services (AWS) are outlined in the AWS Security Whitepaper. In addition to the various… Continue