When considering a BI solution, focus on a human-centric approach to software design. The business is comprised of people (not machines) and software solutions must satisfy user needs, rather than focusing on a particular platform, framework or technology. This human-centric approach is critical to creating any kind of software or interface, but especially so when…

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By Steve Overton

 

On my current “big data” project, I’m connecting SAS to PostgreSQL using the ODBC access engine.  At first I was seeing pretty bad performance – specifically I wasn’t able to view the ~2.2…

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Steve Overton posted this article:

 

When troubleshooting data performance problems, IO problems, or simple library connectivity, I use a simple snippet of code to push the data storage to the limits.  It is useful because it stresses the data storage component, whether it be a SAS dataset on local file storage or an external database like Oracle, and it provides useful performance metrics.  To make it even better, since this is a SAS Macro it can easily be…

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1.8 Zettabytes, or to put it another way, 31 billion fully loaded (64gb) iPad’s – an incomprehensible amount of data that represents the estimated size of our digital universe today. To give this a little more perspective, it has been estimated that if we stored all the words ever spoken since the dawn of time, by every human, we’d need 0.0048 of a Zettabyte - just a smidgen of what we’ve already created to date.

You’re probably getting the message. Data is big, abundant and no doubt…

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Do not confuse performance monitoring with business analytics, there are great differences and the choice depends on specific need.

Do you know those differences? Here is a schematic summary that will help you to decide best approach in each case.…

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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.



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