Leveraging Gen AI Integrations – Faster Than You Think!

Generative AI is streamlining workflows, speeding time to market, maximizing efficiencies, and presenting capabilities that would historically be very expensive (if not impossible) to create via other means.   Newer versions have added accelerated paths to quickly prototyping/experimenting with enhancements to service and product lines. Below are several reasons you can get your first Gen AI … Continued

Data Handcuffs: The Aftermath of Success

When Success = Compliance For many of our customers success has come with accolades, trophies, …and a fresh round of compliance/governance to adhere to! For teams who haven’t started out with data compliance in mind (which is most), this often means that there are volumes of PII, PHI, or trade secrets that have accrued in … Continued

Axian Practice Leads Speak at “Ignite TAO V8”

What is Ignite TAO V8? Each year, for the past 8 years, the Technology Association of Oregon has hosted a fast-paced evening of folks speaking to Technology topics in rapid fire. The event takes place in front of a couple hundred of your colleagues. How rapid you ask? Well, the format provides each speaker with … Continued

The Data Lifecycle: Enabling Business Growth

Everyone is talking about data, “big data” and analytics. Both the volume and sources of data are proliferating at light speed, particularly with the advent of Cloud infrastructure and the Internet of Things (IoT). Companies, small and large, individuals, and inanimate objects create, save, and utilize data. But is there value in that data and … Continued

Hadoop in 5 minutes

What is Hadoop really? Hadoop is an open source development project managed by Apache.  It is based on some technology originally written by Google.  There are multiple modules (code bases) available and all perform different tasks, but all focused on the primary directive of Hadoop, processing large volumes of data in a highly available environment.  … Continued

BI in the Cloud: Rainy Day or Lightning Strike?

What is Cloud BI? If you’ve ever read any of my blog posts, then you probably know that I don’t shy away from the clichéd buzz words/phrases.  This time around, I thought we’d tackle two at a time (Cloud & BI).  Cloud based Business Intelligence (aka Cloud BI) is the Software as a Service (SaaS) … Continued

Usher-ing in the MicroStrategy 9s Upgrade

What’s included in the 9s Upgrade? In January of this year at the 2015 MicroStrategy World conference in Las Vegas, MicroStrategy announced that their latest Analytics platform, MicroStrategy 9s, was now Generally Available.  With this release MicroStrategy has released some significantly improved security enhancements by incorporating their Usher application into the platform’s functionality. What is … Continued

Machine Learning in Your Browser (sort of)

Azure Machine Learning This month, Microsoft GA’d their offering into the cloud machine learning space, Azure Machine Learning. For those that have done data mining in analysis services, both the workflow and the mining models should be familiar. In A Breath If you haven’t already been briefed, machine learning is often used as a way to … Continued

Big Data Infrastructure

Big Data Infrastructure Definitions for Business Intelligence and Big Data are a lot like a Picasso or Matisse, abstract & defined by the subjective impressions of the viewer.  However, making Business Intelligence (or Analytics) happen with raw, unstructured, or streaming data pushes us out of the theoretical/abstract and into the tangible delivery focused realm. What … Continued

Master Data Management: Why does it matter?

What is Master Data Management? Master Data Management, or MDM, (since every IT person loves TLA’s (three-letter-acronyms) is the process of cleansing all existing, managing the generation of, and governing the entry of information into a database. This process applies specifically to Conformed Dimensions, meaning that MDM doesn’t directly apply to transactional data; rather it … Continued