When you look at a skyscraper, what do you see? A looming tower made of steel and glass? But what about what you don’t see? Think about all of the considerations that need to be made before a skyscraper can come to fruition: the materials required to build it, the hours put into construction and the...
If you’re a business analyst and your job requires you to build dashboards, reports, or other analytics on company data that leads to business decisions, then your job is likely pretty fun. Well, provided all of the information you need is in a single data source. But, how often does that happen?...
If you follow IT news, you know that January is the time of predictions. Everyone has thoughts on what’s to come in the realms of Big Data, Cloud, SaaS, analytics – you name it! If it has implications in the business world, someone’s making a prediction about it.
I recently read one such piece...
Manufacturing requires precision. Manufacturing 140,000 kilometers of wire per day is akin to the pursuit of perfection. Schwering & Hasse employs 400 production lines 24 hours a day to manufacture enough magnetized copper wire each year to stretch...
With the prevalence of Facebook, Twitter, instant messages and other user-generated content, today’s databases are growing at an exponential pace. In fact, according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, every two days we create the same amount of...