5 ERP Blunders and How to Avoid Them
When it comes to selecting, implementing and running ERP, there are countless ways to get it wrong. Here…
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5 Data Discovery Pitfalls
By Rado Kotorov Data visualization is fast becoming an area of interest for organizations seeking to benefit from…
IBM’s Watson Will Change Your Data Analytics – but How?
IBM’s Watson software offers a new and distinctly different approach to analyzing data. It differs from more traditional…
Big Data Analytics: What Can You Learn from High Achievers?
Retailers, more than many other businesses, seem poised to use Big Data analytics to their competitive advantage. Yet…
6 Big Business Intelligence Mistakes
The business intelligence (BI) market, which Gartner estimates is now worth more than $14 billion, is large and…
Analytics, Business Intelligence Are Converging, not Merging
Enterprise Apps Today recently wrote about Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant (MQ) specific to advanced analytics. Gartner addresses the…
Measuring Mobile ROI: Tricky, but Necessary
Like many other technology initiatives, measuring return on investment (ROI) for mobility programs can be tricky. Even companies…
How to Build a Data Assessment Business Case
By Michael Collins Examining an enterprise’s strategic master data within or across multiple systems to ensure quality and…
How to Control Email Before It Controls You
Email – especially business email – has gotten a bad name, as anyone who has been the helpless…
Open Source Vendors Blaze a Trail in Advanced Analytics
For eight years now, Gartner has been issuing a Magic Quadrant (MQ) for business intelligence. The rise of…
Geographic Information Systems Buying Guide
Enterprises are beginning to find strong business cases for geographic information systems. And there are plenty of choices…
Startup Spotlight: Mobile Marketer Kahuna
Adam Marchick, CEO of mobile marketing automation provider Kahuna, says companies are failing miserably at their goal to…
8 Common CRM Mistakes, and How to Avoid Them
According to Gartner, the CRM market will reach $23.9 billion this year after several years of strong growth.…
How Qualitative Research Can Improve Your Business Analytics
In the social sciences areas of academia, qualitative research is a hot topic – which usually means that…
Business Intelligence One of Fastest-Growing Enterprise Mobile Apps
Adoption of mobile apps in the enterprise shows no signs of slowing, based on research from Good Technology.…
Domo and the Demand for Democratic BI
When Enterprise Apps Today asked experts to pick their top business intelligence trends for 2014, we came up…
Geographic Information Systems: Mapping out Enterprise Impact
The field of geographic information systems (GIS) is impacting the enterprise applications space like never before. Known best…
Is SAP Jam Where Enterprise Social Is Headed?
Enterprise collaboration has been on many business wish lists for a long time. But it is proving to…
9 Tips on Using Big Data Analytics to Improve Security
With the widening adoption of Hadoop and in-memory databases, companies are starting to realize that Big Data analytics…
Big Data Focus on Value, Not Hype, in 2014
While many organizations are still experimenting with Big Data analytics rather than undertaking full deployments, they want to…
3 Tips for Getting More Value From Your Data
By Michele Nemschoff, MapR Technologies Big Data can be extremely valuable for any business, and most businesses recognize…
DIY App Builders: a Buying Guide
Many companies’ IT departments are strapped for cash and human resources, which means that business users don’t always…
Agile Insights into Predictive Analytics
The promise of predictive analytics seems straightforward and powerful: semi-automated, flexible tools that allow us to predict customer…
Manufacturers Face ERP Challenges
“You want to make sure you find the right software. If you are implementing a product that cannot…
10 Hot CRM Startups
CRM software has been around for years, but thanks to the cloud and the prevalence of smartphones, the…
Review: Attunity Cloudbeam Simplifies Moving Big Data to Cloud
As companies migrate more data from on-premises data centers to the cloud, they are looking for easy and…
Top ERP Trend? Usability, Says Nucleus Research
When Enterprise Apps Today asked experts to pick their top ERP trends for 2014, cloud and mobile not…
7 CRM Trends for 2014
Mobile CRM, which has been gaining momentum for quite some time, is a trend that will only get…
Top Business Intelligence Trends For 2014
Ask people about business intelligence (BI), these days, and they almost invariably talk about Big Data. While closely…
3 Approaches to Building Mobile Apps: Which Is Best?
You can blame it on the late Steve Jobs, or on BYOD programs or anything else that comes…
Top 8 ERP Trends
The ERP field can be slow to change. But the last couple of years have unleashed forces which…
Top Big Data Trends For 2014
There is a lot going on in the business intelligence field, not the least of which is Big…
Top IT Organizations Choose Standardization vs. SaaS
Customization has long been considered a practice best avoided in enterprise software, due to the belief it drives…
3 Tips for Better Customer Relationships in 2014
By Anthony Wilkey More and more, customers expect more personalized, real-time interactions across email, mobile, social, Web and…
Importance of Application Performance Management
Cyber Monday is one of the most important shopping days for e-retailers looking to grow sales and expand…
Marketing Execs Struggle to Fulfill Big Data Potential
While Big Data technologies present some exciting new opportunities for marketers, few marketers appear to be realizing Big…
Which Hadoop Distribution Is Right For You?
By Michele Nemschoff, MapR Technologies The thought of evaluating whether a particular technology is right for your company…
Worst ‘Shadow’ IT Offender? IT
When addressing the problem of so-called “shadow” IT – the use of unauthorized business applications, a trend facilitated…
5 Hot Big Data Startups
Big Data is one of the hottest areas of IT right now. Analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC)…
Big Data: What Will You Do for an Encore?
There has been a lot of focus on the first big value-add insight one gets from Big Data…
Review: ExactView Performance Marketing Platform
Performance marketing, the process by which an advertiser only pays for ads that bring results, is all the…
Big Data and Customer Metrics: Time for a Change?
Big Data is often described by citing three of its characteristics: volume, velocity and variety. While many people…
Project Portfolio Management Buying Guide
Projects: Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. At any one time, any organization seems to have…
SMEs Enjoy Business Intelligence Edge
A new report from Dresner Advisory Services finds that small and mid-sized enterprises (SMEs) have some unique characteristics…
Testing Mobile Apps: Addressing the Challenge
By Shoeb Javed Enterprise mobility is becoming increasingly important as companies move to provide mobile users with access…
Customer Engagement Growing Focus for Salesforce Users
Salesforce.com has been spending big on cloud marketing technology over the past few years. It spent $2.5 billion…
Can Google Apps Unseat Microsoft in the Enterprise?
Microsoft has long been king of the enterprise software arena via its Microsoft Office suite which just about…
Review: KXEN InfiniteInsight Genius and Predictive Offers
A key aspect of the Big Data revolution is making analytics easier for business people. In the past,…
Can CRM Software Prevent Mobile Spam?
In an age when consumers and business users are bombarded each day with email, Web banner ads and…
3 Tips for Solving Big Data Skills Shortage
Shortages of scarce skills usually create two things: higher salaries for the desired skills and creative approaches for…