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Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Have you noticed lately that supply chains are morphing into all kinds of new chains? We now call the temperature-controlled supply chain the “cold chain.” The process of adding value to activities within the supply chain is part of the “value chain.”  Now along comes the new kid on the block — blockchain! What exactly is blockchain? It is basically a database that runs across a global network of independent computers. It serves as an open ledger, where every transaction is recorded and available for all companies and participants to see and ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. As a sales professional, you know your strengths—and what it takes to thrive and succeed at what you do best. You also know that your success is directly tied to the innovation an organization creates to drive a strong sales culture.  Innovative companies innovate in every area and leadership within the sales culture is the key to everyone’s success. In this 3-part blog series, I’m excited to share some powerful insights from a lively discussion I recently had with Mike Weinberg—top-performing sales coach on new business development & sales strategies, and author ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. This article originally appeared in This Week Community News.  Beach volleyball was Kathy Koontz’s game until she moved from Florida to central Ohio in 2011. Her husband, Alan, had initiated her into cycling in 2010, but the pair did not take part in organized rides until after Koontz was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2014. “I was treated in the James (Cancer Hospital) for three weeks. I got so depleted from the treatment and the disease that I could barely walk 30 feet,” Koontz said. “And (I) was really in ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Since starting a new role at Teradata with the responsibility of supporting our financial services sales and consulting teams across the globe, I’ve decided now is a good time to document some thoughts on the challenges and opportunities before us. Can a coherent vision and agenda for analytics truly transform capabilities, particularly in legacy financial services environments? Read on and you’ll find out. To set the scene, what are the major pain points for financial services? Well, that depends on your perspective, but for legacy institutions there are a raft of challenges ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. In short, no. Thanks for stopping by the blog. See you next time. But wait! As always, we need to consider whether this is a “glass half empty” or “glass half full” situation. Most CFOs and their finance departments remain application driven – so whenever a new requirement for reporting and analysis arises, they sit down to develop a specific solution addressing the requirement (i.e. IFRS 15 – Revenue Recognition etc.). It’s one thing to design/develop the new solution to support the reporting requirement, but the majority of CFOs and their finance ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Recently, Professor Andrew Stephen from Saïd Business School at Oxford University spoke to Yasmeen Ahmad about her thoughts on the future of marketing in an increasingly digitised world, including the key challenges facing marketers today. See the Q&A below: Stephen: What are the biggest challenges that marketers are facing right now, particularly with respect to how they make use of data? Yasmeen: Marketers today are being challenged by the fast-evolving changes driven by digitalisation. Today, digitalisation has created more channels, providing additional opportunities for customers and businesses to interact, as well as ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. More than ever, “WOW!” business outcomes are driven by data scientists, and there are many types of data scientist. Everyone can benefit from understanding the ways data scientists explore, analyze and execute strategic business decisions and plans. The 2017 Teradata PARTNERS conference offers many sessions focused on Data Science – so get an instant education on Data Science. Take a look at the options: State of the Art Data Science for the Data Driven Enterprise – Look at Data Science in practice at Verizon Wireless! Learn how to build a data driven ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. I’ve learned something funny about analytics over the past few years out in the field. After nearly every discussion, the customer or prospect says, “This is great, and we definitely need it — but what do we do with the results?” The value of analytics is almost taken for granted at this point. Companies urgently need to become data-driven just to keep up with the market. So, naturally, managers and executives want to explore opportunities to leverage analytics to improve their business. But it’s that last bit — improving the business — ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. With daily security breaches and cyberattacks dominating the headlines daily, it’s no wonder that organizations globally are still tentative to move away from physical servers/on-premises data storage. Though most businesses are familiar with cloud as a principle, there is still ambiguity surrounding what exactly the technology has to offer. Our latest report, “The Road to Data in the Cloud,” found that one in four executives (25 percent) surveyed believe that data cloud adoption would result in a lack of control and increased security breaches. The fact that the public cloud, by definition, ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. All artificial intelligence methods today are around machine learning modeling and use some form of sophisticated correlation or association method, which can be approximated to brute-force robot learning. It is about reverse engineering existing features/patterns and providing useful “forward engineering” solutions like: Self-driving cars Detecting diseases from X-rays/MRIs Robots in manufacturing Chatbots for customer service Insert your future application here. The logic is that X event follows Y, or if X event occurs with Y in historical and simulation data, so today we can create automated models around it and use the ... Read More