Visualizing data the advanced way

Visualizing data the advanced way

All the rage right now in big data and analytics is advanced visualizations. These are fast-becoming coveted features in the growing market for maps and charts and other new and innovative ways of visualizing and processing all that data. Within the last year, almost...
Social Media a Hackers Dream

Social Media a Hackers Dream

Social media, and its ever-increasing use, seems to be fuelling a growing wave of cyber-crime that’s linked to its easily exploitable attack surface. Steve Ragan, writing for CSO Online, talks about one very interesting attack surface that criminals have been...
Competitor Data Work For Your BI Analytics

Competitor Data Work For Your BI Analytics

It is almost a given that in this day and age, an organization will be mining its own customer data for consumer habits and insights into the marketplace. But what if your company was able to track the competition’s data as well – ethically, of course – but in a...
Is Your Biggest Threat Internal

Is Your Biggest Threat Internal

Your company could be compromised, even with a relatively tech-savvy workforce. Fooled into allowing attackers access to company networks, it is this mode of access that is one of the biggest cyber security challenges. Perceptive, well-meaning employees can be fooled...
Self Service Still Needs Self Actualization

Self Service Still Needs Self Actualization

Many companies’ experience of self service business intelligence (BI) is similar to the early days of agile development; companies were then drawn to a model that promised improved business-IT relations and expedited delivery cycles. This was particularly...