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Traceability Best Practices

As products get smarter, building them right becomes a matter of managing complexity. Products have more requirements and companies have globally distributed teams and more products in their portfolios. But when a single new product, version or variant has thousands of requirements and interdependencies, the process of defining, engineering and managing them grows exponentially more complicated. Traceability becomes more challenging.

The Forrester Wave™: Big Data Predictive Analytics Solutions, Q2 2015

Among the 13 big data predictive analytics solution vendors Forrester evaluated, we found three Leaders, eight Strong Performers, and two Contenders.

The Evolution of Embedded BI: Servicing Data-Driven Success

This report explores how an embedded approach to BI is helping managed service providers and ISVs empower their customers and enhance their own performance in the process.

Seven Reasons You Need Predictive Analytics Today

Author Eric Siegel of Prediction Impact Inc. examines seven strategic business objectives that can be fully attained by using predictive analytics.

Forrester Report: Consider Bare-Metal As A Viable Cloud Option

Bare-metal clouds offer a way for infrastructure and operations professionals to deploy workloads that demand dedicated hardware for performance and isolation reasons with all the operational advantages of VM-based infrastructure-as-a-service cloud services. This report discusses bare-metal clouds, how they differ from conventional IaaS offerings, and how I&O pros can benefit from them. Read this Forrester study to see whether this alternative platform may fit well as another option in your overall services ecosystem.

Empowering the Digital User

To empower the enterprise to stay ahead of the new digital user and see how other forward-thinking enterprises are harnessing progressive Interconnected Oriented Architectures™ today download the Empowering the Digital User White Paper.

Forrester Report – Strategically Locate Your Next Data Center

Are your business systems, applications and content close to where your customers are? If not, then you have an opportunity to rethink your data center’s location to deliver the best customer experience possible ‐ and colocation can play an important role.

Gartner – Use Colocation Networking

Colocation has evolved from simple space and power to become a key element in enterprise networking. Beyond simply connecting compute assets to the enterprise, colocation networking can enable new business models, support the move to hosting and the cloud, and reshape the enterprise WAN.

Gartner – Communication Hubs Improve WAN Performance

The cloud is impacting WAN architectures. IT leaders looking to use a cloud-based infrastructure and/or application services, especially high-bandwidth, real-time voice and video over Internet Protocol applications, should strategically locate communications hubs outside the enterprise data center.

Tableau Metadata Model

The first layer of abstraction is the Connection. The Connection stores information about how to access the data and what data to make available to Tableau. The connection attributes for the database, the tables, views and columns to use, and any joins or custom SQL used to access the data. To support true ad hoc analysis, Tableau does not require that all fields, tables or joins be included in the initial connection. This allows users to get started with a simple connection and change it as needed to include more fields or tables.

Meilleures pratiques en matière d’analyse visuelle

Vous avez créé une visualisation ! Félicitations : vous faites partie d’un groupe en constante croissance qui tire profit de la puissance de la visualisation. Toutefois, il faut du temps, de la patience et un souci du détail pour transformer des visualisations simplement exactes en visualisations particulièrement performantes. Pour vous aider, nous avons établi une liste, courte mais importante, des techniques qui vous permettront de commencer. Bonne visualisation !

Google BigQuery & Tableau: Best Practices

Tableau helps people to see and understand data. Our software products put the power of data into the hands of everyday people. This allows a broad population of users to engage with their data, ask questions, solve problems, and create value. Based on technology developed at Stanford University, our product reduces the complexity, inflexibility, and expense associated with traditional business intelligence applications. Anyone who is comfortable with Excel can leverage Tableau Desktop to create rich, interactive visualizations and powerful dashboards using a drag-and-drop user interface, as well as share them securely across organizations using Tableau Server or Tableau Online.

Trust Online is at the Breaking Point

Most alarming threat to security professional in 2015 is a Cryptoapocalypse: a discovered cryptographic weakness that becomes the ultimate weapon, allowing websites, payment transactions, stock trades, and government to be spoofed or surveilled (term was coined by researches presenting their findings at Black Hat 2013).

When Trust Online Breaks, Businesses Lose Customers

This is the second part of the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 Cost of Failed Trust Report, which reveals the damaging impacts on global business from unprotected cryptographic keys and digital certificates. This new report reveals that most companies lose customers, suffer costly outages, fail audits, and experience breaches due to unprotected and poorly managed keys and certificates.

An Enterprise Architect’s Guide to Mobility

Key insights and expert guidance for the enterprise development leader on:

Agile and Lean development approaches for mobile
The ideal way to organize a mobile team
Design for multiple mobile form factors
Basic principles of mobile development
QA/Testing for mobile apps
Mobile data integration
Management and app security
Mobile analytics