It’s one thing to move to the cloud. Now . . . how do you make sense with all the data that now resides in your public, private, or hybrid cloud?
Guident has been working with the concept of business
Dan Ackerman, Executive Vice President
intelligence since 1996. Today’s interview is with two executives from Guident — Excutive Vice Peresident (and one of the founders) Dan Ackerman and Vice President Ken Raffel.
One interesting aspect of the interview is trying to draw the line between “business intelligence” and “predictive analytics.” One approach is to say that business intelligence is in the past and predictive analytics is in the future.
The big data proponents maintain that ALL the data is required to make a decision – what about statistical analysis? Listen here if you would like to hear a discussion on this topic http://bit.ly/wp5YDB
| Nerdometer questions | Ken | Points | |
| 1 | Year of your first computer | 1985 | 10 |
| 2 | Year of your first cell phone | 1998 | 10 |
| 3 | What is your Twitter feed? | N | 0 |
| 4 | What is the title of your blog? | Y | 5 |
| 5 | What do you use for online personal backup? | N | 0 |
| 6 | Flavor of smartphone? | iPhone | 10 |
| 7 | Number of apps? | 50 | 5 |
| 8 | What kind of a tablet device do you own? | N | 0 |
| 9 | What social networking sites do you participate in? | FB LI | 0 |
| 10 | The last book you read . . . Paper or electronic? | Paper | 0 |
| Score | 40 | ||
| Classification | wannabe |
| Nerdometer questions | Dan | Points | |
| 1 | Year of your first computer | 1992 | 10 |
| 2 | Year of your first cell phone | 1994 | 10 |
| 3 | What is your Twitter feed? | N | 0 |
| 4 | What is the title of your blog? | N | 0 |
| 5 | What do you use for online personal backup? | N | 0 |
| 6 | Flavor of smartphone? | iPhone | 10 |
| 7 | Number of apps? | 50 | 5 |
| 8 | What kind of a tablet device do you own? | multiple | 10 |
| 9 | What social networking sites do you participate in? | LI | 5 |
| 10 | The last book you read . . . Paper or electronic? | Paper | 0 |
| Score | 50 | ||
| Classification | wannabe |
