Gartner has declared business intelligence and analytics is at a “tipping point.” Companies can no longer afford to keep analytics centralized within a technical group.
Artificial Intelligence is a Moving Target
We all have those friends or colleagues who are the “go to” person for tough problems, whether it’s car repairs or career advice. The difference between the “go to” person and everyone else is experience and a kind of raw talent.
Analyzing Movie Data Sets
The Academy Awards are soon, and that has us our office in the mood for movies. The problem is that not everybody shares the same opinions.
Business Drivers for Cloud vs. On-Premises Analytics
For years, business leaders have been hearing this debate about cloud versus on-premises data and analytics from their security and IT teams. Get our advice!
Data Analytics Tools Need Consumer-Driven Simplicity
What makes these consumer products so popular is how user friendly they are. They’re so easy to pick up that a user manual is barely needed.
Resolve to Become More Data Driven
You may have resolved to make your organization more focused on business intelligence and analytics. But how do you ensure this becomes part of your team’s culture?
Top 9 Business Intelligence and Analytics Trends for 2016
Based on discussions with hundreds of enterprises about business intelligence and analytics, these are AnswerRockets top 9 trends for 2016.
Your Digital Marketing Mission
“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster,” says Stephen R. Covey.
Data-Driven Marketing: 4 Ways To Build Your Team
Your leadership expects this to be a watershed year for digital marketing. According to a recent Forbes study, 91% of senior executives agreed data-driven marketing is crucial to their company’s success.
Natural Language Search on Retail Big Data
The growth of big data has created a new set of challenges. Namely, the ability for expanding groups of users to leverage this data to drive profitable action.
SAP HANA: Combining Predictive and Text Analytics with Search
AnswerRocket empowers retailers with search-driven analytics against any data source.
Apache Drill: Connecting Different Data Sources
At AnswerRocket, we give people the power to get answers from data without technical skills. With Apache Drill, we see tremendous synergies.
Draft Day Analytics: AnswerRocket on Fantasy Football
We started a fantasy football league, which gave us each a reason to use AnswerRocket. They call it “eating your own dog food” in the software business.
Search-Driven Analytics for Workforce Management
Business intelligence has struggled to get past 25%. The arena of workforce management is no different and has likely lagged behind even these statistics.
Apache Spark: Connect, Configure, and Ask
AnswerRocket empowers business people with search-driven analytics using Apache Spark and Spark SQL.
Natural Language Data Discovery and Visualization
AnswerRocket enables self service big data exploration. AnswerRocket provides search-driven analytics by converting natural language questions into queries