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Apply these techniques to create a data analytics program that delivers solutions that delight end-users and meet their needs.

Eric Anderson says business leaders should regularly collect and analyze data to understand what products will do well in the market.

The pandemic is accelerating the adoption of data analytics enabled by AI and machine learning, often in the cloud.

Senior Business Insights Analyst, Matthew Carmean, provides readers four tips to consider when pitching your next business case. Learn how data storytelling often features a much richer level of insights that connects to your audience’s emotions. Leading with a data story, you dramatically reduce the mental friction for your audience so they can see and understand what was happening.

Like so many other IT functions, data analytics is moving to the cloud. And as with other cloud-based endeavors, this presents both opportunities and challenges. One of the top 10 data and analytics technology trends for 2021 cited by Gartner is the use of open, containerized analytics architectures that make analytics capabilities more composable. This enables enterprises to quickly create flexible, intelligent applications that help data analysts connect insights to actions, the research firm says.

Some things don't change, even during a pandemic. Consistent with previous years, in CIO’s 2021 State of the CIO survey, a plurality of the 1,062 IT leaders surveyed chose “data/business analytics” as the No.1 tech initiative expected to drive IT investment.

Data executives are vital to the success of businesses of all kinds — learn how and why!

Soon the data economy will simply become the economy. Major enterprises are already reliant on data to reveal business insights, develop new products, and meet the needs of their customers.

Data executives are vital to the success of businesses of all kinds — learn how and why!

The pandemic will continue to influence IT budgets in the next 12 months in ways both large and small. Organizations will rely on technology to improve remote work infrastructure, expand digital transformation initiatives, and create or enhance a variety of customer services.

Learn why the chief data officer is becoming a vital player in helping companies thrive in the era of data.

Fintech startup ClearGlass Analytics has closed a £2.6 million ($3.6 million) funding round for its platform, which aims to create greater transparency on fees in the long-term savings market, such as pensions and the wider asset management market. The £2.6 million seed round includes European VC Lakestar and Outward VC, the venture arm of Investec, […]

As customers reel from ever-increasing scams, cyberattacks, and misuse of personal information, brands no longer should expect people will trust them because “they know us.” As customers see more news coverage about unethical use of data by social media, brands, and commerce sites, experiences must change to demonstrate new sensitivity to the value and importance of personal data.

The Atlassian platform is chock full of data about how a company operates and communicates. Atlassian launched a machine learning layer, which relies on data on the platform with the addition of Atlassian Smarts last fall. Today the company announced it was acquiring Chartio to add a new data analysis and visualization component to the..

Our survey of 1,172 IT professionals finds that demand for some IT skills is strong but the pandemic has influenced the rate of hiring and roles that are being prioritized.

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of founders to fail. There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator coined the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study by CB Insights

This morning Creatio, a Boston-based software company, announced that it has raised $68 million. Volition Capital, a growth-equity fund, led the round. The deal was a minority investment in the startup. The deal is notable not merely thanks to its sheer size, but because up until today Creatio had bootstrapped. That’s according to founder and […]

When COVID-19 hit, organizations using traditional analytics techniques that rely heavily on large amounts of historical data realized one important thing: Many of these models are no longer relevant. Essentially, the pandemic changed everything, rendering a lot of data useless. In turn, forward-looking data and analytics teams are pivoting from traditional AI techniques relying on “big” data to a class of analytics that requires less, or “small” and more varied.