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  • Wynn White
  • May 15, 2012
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Why Birst – Through the Eyes of Birst Customers (and Nucleus Research)

Nucleus Research, a boutique analyst firm based in Boston which focuses on “investigative information technology research,” released their Technology Value Matrix for Analytics for 2012.  The matrix seeks to evaluate vendors that have a global presence and provide functionality in the four core analytics areas: business intelligence (BI), performance management (PM), predictive analytics, and big data.   We were delighted to learn that Birst was named a “Leader” in its Analytics Value Matrix that published today.  Birst joins the company of some larger (and better known) vendors in the busi

  • Brad Peters
  • May 3, 2012
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Welcome to the Real World

One of the great things about the blogosphere is that you are allowed to change your mind.

In my last blog I defined Big Data as any body of information that is so big it cannot be analyzed directly for profitable use in its raw form. Since I wrote that I’ve had a number of conversations with Big Data providers, tool-makers and users, and I’ve come to the conclusion that my definition was a bit too facile – and insufficiently empirical. So let’s try it again:

Big Data is any data that requires massively parallel computational techniques to handle.

  • Wynn White
  • May 2, 2012
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Get the Marshmallows Ready

The balance in our bank account went up this week.  In fact, it went up by $26 million.

  • Seema Haji
  • Apr 25, 2012
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Birst FORWARD 2012. Birst’s First Annual User Conference.

There is an air of excitement at Birst, as the company buzzes with activity around planning Birst’s first annual user conference – Birst FORWARD 2012. The user conference is scheduled for May 21st-23rd at the Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.

  • Brad Peters
  • Apr 9, 2012
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Big Data, Big Promise

Along with medical applications and geography-based social networks, “Big Data” is the hottest topic in tech these days. Everyone seems to be talking about it – though if you listen closely you’ll realize, as is often the case with new technologies, that nobody really knows what it is.

  • Wynn White
  • Mar 28, 2012
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The State of SFA Business Analytics – Not Pretty

Birst commissioned a survey earlier this month on the state of Sales Force Automation business analytics. Today we released the results of the survey. The results weren’t pretty with only 19% stating that they were satisfied with the analytics provided by their SFA app and 86% of users experiencing challenges with them. Reading through the survey there are a lot of interesting results including

  • Seema Haji
  • Feb 21, 2012
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20 in 2012 and TDWI

Having been a Business Intelligence analyst and later joining the industry for close to the last decade, I was taken with the elegance and innovative approach of Birst when I first stumbled across it–so much so that I eventually joined Birst when the opportunity arose. Due to this personal experience, I am excited to share that Birst was among the ‘Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2012’ by CIO magazine last week.

  • Brad Peters
  • Feb 16, 2012
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Healthcare Forecast: Increasing clouds with a chance of dramatic improvement

If ever there was an application designed for cloud computing, it is healthcare. I’m convinced that any attempt – from free enterprise to government-managed – that has a chance of actually fixing our current healthcare crisis will have to go through the cloud.

  • Seema Haji
  • Feb 6, 2012
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Data Here, Data There, Data Data Everywhere

As users, we are creating hundreds of terabytes of data coming from every possible digital source. If you’ve been following big data, you probably have heard of the 3 “V’s” that it is becoming associated with:

Volume – big data volume is ‘big’; terabytes possibly even petabytes of information
Velocity – big data value is in its real-time or near real-time nature
Variety – big data extends beyond structured to semi-structured or un-structured information and includes all types – audio, video, log files, web traffic and good old fashioned text

  • Brad Peters
  • Feb 3, 2012
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Going to College — What a Concept

If you’ve been carefully reading the news – or you’ve got a teenaged child – then you know that a crisis is emerging in American higher education. And if many of the colleges and universities in this country hope to survive the bursting of this ‘bubble’, then they had better start looking now to the Cloud.

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