Analytics

CIO.com and Drexel to honor 50 analytics innovators (deadline extended)

Deadline extended to August 15. The Analytics 50, a collaboration between Drexel University's LeBow College of Business and CIO.com, will recognize 50 of the most innovative analytics executives.

You might be using Office 365 without even knowing it

Services like DocuSign and Smartsheet use the Microsoft Graph to pull contextual information out of Office and put it to work where itu2019s most useful.

CDM Smith CIO on how tech can transform construction

The CIO of construction company CDM Smith says his industry badly needs a transformation, and he believes technology will play a key role. Here's how.

How to define the evolving role of data scientist

Data science is a hot new career, but companies still aren't sure how to best use these employees. Hereu2019s how to hire data scientists with a clear strategy in place.

Starwood taps machine learning to dynamically price hotel rooms

Starwood taps machine learning to dynamically price hotel rooms

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide uses an analytics engine to alter hotel pricing rates on the fly, improving demand forecasting by 20 percent.

Business alignment techniques for successful and sustainable analytics

How to explore business alignment techniques by analyzing business strategy, decomposing strategy into how data will be used to help meet strategic goals, decomposing data usage into critical components and understanding patterns of use.

Open Data Platform Initiative looks to ease fears

In an effort to address concerns that the ODPi is a vendor organization designed to exert undue influence on Apache Hadoop ecosystem projects, the Linux Foundation organization announced a gold sponsorship of the ASF.rn

May 2016: Making IoT magic

6 ways data is taking over retail

Data has seeped into every nook and cranny of the retail process, thanks to everything from mobile devices and Wi-Fi to beacons, sensors, cookies and POS terminals. The result? A nearly total data takeover of the retail landscape.

To get digital, be the dog

Executives and decision makers may think they have the power, similar to Pavlov, to elicit a reaction from their customers. However, an executive's approach to technology is more similar to the dog's reaction than to Pavlov's position