HR chasing down managers and employees to submit their reviews 2) managers rifling through months of hastily-written sticky notes, and 3) nervous employees sweating over how to reduce the last 12 months to a quick meeting.This strategy is ineffective and doesn’t reflect the needs of the modern worker. Check out five new trends that deliver more meaningful, engaging performance evaluations […]

In just over a century, the automobile has done more to enable personal mobility than almost any other device, allowing people to travel almost anywhere, whenever they like. However, as life gets busier, the personal mobility machine people know as the car and the ubiquitous, yet utterly intangible communications network will fuse. By 2020, virtually every newly built vehicle in […]

Top Five IoT Analytics Trends Revealed Organizations are currently adopting IoT analytics strategies to lower expenses by increasing operational efficiencies. We surveyed leading global companies to discover: • Top reasons for developing an IoT analytics strategy • Top use cases for IoT analytics across industries • Top three uses cases by industry • Top 5 areas needing real-time analytics • […]

IoT-Driven Industrial Analytics: State of the Market On behalf of Hitachi Vantara, IDC surveyed over 1,000 IT decision-makers in the U.S., the U.K., and Germany to determine their plans for Internet of Things (IoT) usage, specifically applied to an analytics strategy. The roles of survey respondents ranged from IT executives to Line-of-Business managers working in businesses with 1,000+ employees across […]

Best Practices for Embedding IoT Analytics into Data Pipelines The worldwide Internet of Things (IoT) big data and analytics software tools market will grow at a 34.3% CAGR to $1.8 billion from 2016 to 2021. Organizations are slowly moving past experimental use of IoT and must overcome skills gaps while adding more industry-, process-, and function-specific tools as required. However, […]

Eight Essential Checklists for Managing the Analytic Data Pipeline Are you tasked with transforming your data into true business value? Read our data management guide and see how each step is a critical to ensuring your data is analytics-ready when business users need it. Use the guide to evaluate your vendor options and flag potential pitfalls as you plan your […]

Blueprints to Big Data Success The big data opportunity is growing rapidly, and research indicates that the top two big data challenges that organizations face are determining how to get value out of big data and defining a big data strategy. This whitepaper address what these use cases are, why companies are investing in them, and their common reference architectures. […]

Guide to Pentaho: Performance and Scalability Overview Get an overview of some of the performance and scalability capabilities of the Pentaho Business Analytics platform. The guide Content covers: • Increasing performance and scalability by deployment on 64-bit operating systems, clustering multiple server nodes, and optimizing the configuration of the Pentaho Reporting and Pentaho Analysis engines • Pentaho’s in-memory caching capabilities, […]