When Hadoop was initially released in 2006, its value proposition was revolutionary—store any type of data, structured or unstructured, in a single repository free of limiting schemas, and process...

This has been a year of unprecedented change in the lives of brands and the customers they serve. Precisely, in conjunction with the CMO Council, set out to discover what brands should know to...

Retail site selection is the process of assessing the suitability of a potential retail location and forecasting the financial return on that investment. By leveraging objective data and unbiased...

Data integration and enterprise security go hand in hand. When a business decides to integrate data across the organization, it means you commit to ensuring the delivery and the security of that...

“COVID-19 has already changed the world forever.” “Our social, economic, and political impacts will be felt for many years to come.” “Our new normal.” These are things we’ve heard...

I’m often brought the challenge of how to optimize our data to address real world problems for our clients. In this blog post, I describe my approach to a data science problem at PlaceIQ in which I...

Data analytics is ultimately about the insights you can derive from relationships within your geospatial data. In a scenario involving sales analytics, for example, most companies would like to...

Online shopping has been steadily becoming more popular for several years and has seen a huge increase with the pandemic forcing the temporary closure of brick-and-mortar stores.  A recently...

For the past three years, Precisely has annually surveyed IT professionals who are responsible for IBM i systems at their companies. When respondents were asked to indicate their organization’s top...