Not everyone can code, and that’s not a problem these days, because lots of solutions are available to enable business people to create applications without having to hack out scripts. Check ...

The key to success in analytics tends to be a moving target. First, we focused on the data, then the queries. With data science, we pivoted to more complex algorithms to find those meaningful insig...

Pundits of all shapes and sizes continue to wax philosophical about the impending “future of work,” but isn’t the future here already? Between COVID and global competition, changi...

Original Broadcast Date: Aug 30, 2021 Click Here to Listen! Decisions, decisions! With the recent news about CentOS 8, businesses need to make up their minds quickly. Will CentOS Stream fill the vo...

Original Broadcast Date: August 9th, 2021 Ever fear the upgrade? The pioneers who pushed for CentOS 8 sure feel that sting these days, ever since Red Hat and the CentOS community announced End of L...

Original Broadcast Date: July 26th, 2021 Show us the money! That’s what most business leaders say. They want sales, sales, sales! And why not? Without sales, no business can survive. And thes...

Original Broadcast Date: July 5th, 2021 Did you have a good experience? Or a bad one? The answer to that question will likely determine whether or not you return to that merchant. These days, brand...

Original Broadcast Date: June 28, 2021 It’s here, the fourth major wave of enterprise software. First came the mainframe, which revolutionized business. Then came client-server, greatly expan...

Original Broadcast Date: June 14, 2021 Who are you, really? And how do we know? These are serious questions in the modern age of big data, big money, and widespread surveilance capitalism. Check ou...

Original Broadcast Date: May 28th, 2021 On this episode of InsideAnalysis, Eric Kavanagh discusses the meteoric rise of Blockchain &  it’s revolutionary societal  & economic impact  w...

Broadcast Date: June 10th, 2021 Click Here to Listen! A lot goes on behind the curtain to enable Big Data and its various applications. In this episode of InsideAnalysis, Eric Kavanagh talks with e...

Original Broadcast: Date May 24th, 2021 No! That’s been the answer for years, as the business scuttled whatever bright ideas you brought to the table. The disruption of attempting new ways wa...

Broadcast Date: May, 17th  2021 Click Here to Listen! It’s literally everywhere these days, either under the hood or out in the open: Artificial Intelligence is ready for primetime! Check out...

From predictive analytics to computer vision, AI delivers all sorts of value these days. The hardest part is usually the last mile: Connecting the insights derived from AI into the operational syst...

Broadcast Date: May 5th, 2021 at 3:00ET In the era of Big Data, companies are generating tremendous amounts of data from multiple sources; such as, IoT, transaction data, log files, etc. With so mu...

Original Broadcast Date: April 26th, 2021 The nexus of data and technology continues to shape this evolving Information Economy. Companies that had a sound data strategy two years ago are likely fa...

Original Broadcast Date: April 19th, 2021 According to Research Firm ESG, 1TB of production data turns into 8 to 9TBs of actual enterprise data, because people across the company are copying it for...

With cloud computing now fully mature, many organizations are wondering how they’ll manage to migrate from on-prem data centers. Hybrid cloud is certainly the answer, but the devil is always in the...

Developers make the software world go round. And today, there are more than ever. But writing code isn’t for everyone. Most business people would rather make things happen with phone calls, e...

Who *doesn’t* use analytics these days? Practically every organization leverages some sort of analytical capability, whether through a traditional Business Intelligence platform, or any number of t...

Distributed computing continues to reshape what’s possible in enterprise computing. Google’s Kubernetes stole a march on Docker a while back, and most industry analysts agree that K8s, as the...

The vision of Data Science cannot be accomplished in piecemeal fashion. You need a program to succeed. Ideally, you work from a platform that was designed for the express purpose of affording rigor...

Is privacy really dead? Some would say yes, but others argue the battle isn’t lost just yet! The big question is: How can you protect the privacy of your customers and partners, especially when we ...

  Host, Eric Kavanagh Guests: Steve Leeper, Datadobi Chris Psalkis, Mist.io 

It sounds so cool, and apparently, everyone’s doing it. But what, exactly, is data science? And how can your organization take advantage of this promising discipline? Check out this episode of Insi...

Who are you, really? Are you authorized to be here, to take that action? Is this a machine, or a person? Knowing who’s who on the Interwebs, and what’s what — makes all the difference in the world ...

In today’s digital economy, companies are generating more data in a year than they did in all of the previous decade.  Cloud computing and cloud data storage have ushered in the era of Big Data all...

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Broadcast Date: Monday, Nov. 9 @ 3ET The science of data brings value to every industry, but there are some verticals where it really takes off. Such is the case with aviation, a critical line of b...

Broadcast Date: Monday, Nov. 2 @ 3ET How soon is now? So sang legendary musician Morrissey of The Smiths, but the question holds even more value today, as the Information Age matures. Everyone want...

Close the gaps! That’s the message from business leaders around the world. With the Cloud growing more prominent by the day, and market forces demanding ever greater efficiency, companies nee...

What is it, and why does it matter? Good questions! The concept of “Cloud Native” will increasingly dominate discussions about the future — and present — of enterprise computing. Check out this epi...

Broadcast Date: Monday, Oct. 5 @ 3ET We can all agree that the past year has been… different. To quote an ancient Chinese expression, we have been living in interesting times! The big question now:...

Original Broadcast Date: September 21th, 2020, 3 ET Economists specialize in causal influence models. So notes Amarita Natt, PhD. But how have they changed in the #COVID19 era? Good question, and o...

Time was, a business would only consult with a banker every so often, usually when applying for a loan. And who enjoys doing that? Historically, the process was driven by predetermined calculations...

Things have changed! The sweeping impact of the coronavirus turned much of the business world inside-out. Millions of workers suddenly emraced their homes for work, while managers the world over sc...

The “edge” opens up all kinds of possibilities, from point-of-sale offers to mobile-friendly ads, from asset management to oil rigs. But what about the challenges? And the security? And the governa...

 Host @eric_kavanagh interviews several IBM executives, including: Steve Sibley, Vice President, Cognitive Systems Offering Management; Satya Sharma, IBM Fellow and Cognitive Systems CTO; Bill Star...

How big a deal is 5G? And why should we call care? This next generation of telco infrastructure is truly game-changing. But what about this Huawei ban? Is it safe to use 5G? We’ll find out from gue...

Throughout history, people have taken advantage of chaotic situations to prey on those who let their guard down during disastrous events. Today, the world is in the throes of an unprecedented disas...

We live in interesting times! The world was already hurtling forward in dynamic ways all around the globe, and then? COVID-19 struck! As data professionals, we always want to base our theories and ...

Almost no one likes to hear the dreaded words, “rip and replace!” Reason being, ripping out existing technology is always painful, disruptive and thus largely unwelcome. This is especially true for...

The rules are all changing these days! Whether for finance, data, or the cutting edge of technical innovation, the advances are far-reaching and hard to fully fathom. Check out this episode of Insi...

Whether for data or functionality, organizations need to synthesize these days. Information architectures are incredibly heterogeneous, both in terms of the data used to run business, and the appli...

How big a deal is #OpenSource these days? It’s everywhere! From the foundation of Linux, all the way through the office suite via Libre Office, and even to the bleeding edge with machine learning a...

Everyone loves free! And the Free Software Foundation has been working on that for years. We’ll talk today with two of their executives, John Sullivan, executive director and Greg Farough, campaign...

Check out this episode of Inside-OpenSource to hear Hosts @eric_kavanagh and @editingwhiz interview Patrick McFadden of DataStax, and Monte Zweben of SpliceMachine.

Thank you, Linus Torvalds, once again! The man who brought us Linux also lit a fire some time ago to create the Global Information Tracker, aka Git! We’ll talk all about that with Chris Preimesberg...

The threat of tariffs, and very stiff ones at that, should have served as ample indication that business-as-usual needed to change dramatically. The companies that embraced sophisticated supply cha...

We kept hearing all about the so-called Future of Work over the past few years. And suddenly? It arrived. This reality can best be summed up by a clever meme that’s circulating social media right n...

Shelter in place! And think up a new business model! Why not? We’re living in remarkably interesting times now, but necessity is the mother of invention, right? Join this episode of #QueryThis on #...

What does “code liquidity” mean and why should you care? We’ll talk about that and future-proofing your information strategy on #QueryThis, our special series on InsideAnalysis, with guests Chris L...

The ongoing narrative about Artificial Intelligence taking away jobs from humans is, to say the least, overplayed. Like any other technology, AI will augment current business processes. In fact, th...

Most data analysts expected some consolidation in 2019, but… whoa! Who would have thought we’d see all that?! Google bought Looker; Salesforce bought Tableau; Qlik bought Attunity; IDERA bought Whe...

Guests: Rajiv Shah, DataRobot Rockset co-founder/CEO Venkat Venkataramani With the development and implementation of the cloud over the last few decades, technologies like AI, Big Data & Analyt...

Now entering at least its fifth decade, the practice of data warehousing seems stronger than ever. New, cloud-based solutions are shaking things up, while traditional players continue to innovate i...

AI on IA (InsideAnalysis) is a recurring topic with this constantly evolving technology.  Erick Kavanagh delves into Artificial Technology with guests: Evren Cakir,  Peter Went & JT Kostman. &n...

Broadcast Date: Monday, Feb.1 @ 3ET What’s the cornerstone of the Information Economy? Trust! And there’s a reason why the verb oft associated with that concept is “earned.” But how do you earn tru...

What will this year hold for the data professional? What won’t it hold? The entire world of data management continues to evolve remarkably as this new decade unfolds. Just about everything will cha...

This episode of Open Enterprise Episode on InsideAnalysis is sponsored by Perforce Software, the industry’s most flexible and scalable collaboration and version control platform. In today’s episode...

In the Information Economy, partnership is critical. With business functionality available to anyone via increasingly vast cloud-based resources, the key to success is execution: getting things don...

The time finally came! With so much data flowing from so many new sources, the traditional approaches for data integration had to change. While we’ll still see lots of Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) ...

The narrative with respect to machine learning is that algorithms will eradicate jobs. A much better description is that machine learning will optimize jobs by handling mountains of tedious work th...

Build vs Buy: What to Consider for a Data Science Platform

Who’s afraid of the big, bad upgrade? Not the ladies from Sauder Woodworking, that’s for sure! The Ohio-based furniture maker of note decided to take the plunge much earlier than most. Check out th...

Searching for some tech companies on a roll? Look no further than Looker and Nimbl! The former recently wrapped up their JOIN Conference in San Francisco, where InsideAnalysis Host @eric_kavanagh i...

Today, modern “data pipelines” are used to fuel mission-critical processes at-scale. These pipelines are much more sophisticated than the atomic process of ETL. And the end result? New business mod...

Now entering its fourth decade of innovation, opensource software continues to transform the world of business. Once considered the work of hobbyists, this now-pervasive paradigm has since conquere...

The kids entering the workforce today could be called the Cloud Generation or the Open Source Generation. Nearly every aspect of corporate, government and educational enterprise software designed t...

In this episode of InsideAnalysis, Eric Kavanagh and Dr. Robin Bloor discuss Fast Data with Chris Lawless of HVR. Data has been around since the ancient Mesopotamians began keeping track of their c...

Should your organization use Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services? Or IBM’s new open-source cloud? Or Oracle? Or SAP? Or Heroku? Well, guess what: You can keep your options open! Check out this e...

The rumors of on-prem’s demise have been greatly exaggerated! Rest assured, mountains of data and functionality remain in corporate-owned data centers, and that will not change — much — any time so...

The more things change, the harder marketers tend to work! That’s especially true these days, as the MarTech 7,000 takes the business world by storm. Yes, that’s 7,000 cloud-based solutions now ava...

Imagine how excited those first automobile drivers were as they cruised down the street in their stylish Model T’s? Compared to hoofing it, or riding in a horse and carriage, this experience must h...

If you go by the buzz, you’ll think for sure that you need a data lake. And that may well be true. But just as mistakes were made in the world of data warehousing, so are mistakes being made in thi...

Cloud computing has changed every aspect of enterprise software and data management. Companies can offload their data to a cloud and make it easily accessible to users. With hardware and storage no...

How safe is data in the cloud? Arguably, the tipping point has already passed, and for lots of reasons. Major cloud vendors like Amazon, Google and Microsoft can leverage the absolutely best techno...

In today’s episode of Inside Analysis, Eric Kavanagh interviews Asaf Somekh, founder and CEO of Iguazio about the inspiration behind Iguazio and the need to streamline Data Science applications. So...

Most can relate to that sinking yet grateful feeling one gets from a fraud alert notice. The immediacy of the notice can be attributed to the data streaming technology that routes the message event...

According to the co-founder of Blameless, Lyon Wong, nobody likes being blamed for a problem they didn’t create, but it’s worse being blamed for a problem because you were the one to id...

One would think the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, and social media, in general, would allow people to see important issues from many different perspectives. With so many different opinions from peop...

Check out this Pilot episode of the ChainGang in which Eric Kavanagh, discusses Blockchain and the Information Economy with Alex Mashinsky and Evren Sel Cakir.

The evolution of civilization has been marked by certain stages; for example, hunter-gatherer, agricultural, industrialization, and finally to today’s Information Economy. The advent of the modern ...

Jason Rose, SAP Sarah Austin, Influencer Eric Kavanagh recently returned from SAP Sapphire where the big talk was SAP’s recent 8 billion dollar purchase of Qualtrics, a single system of record for ...

Time was, anyone could do just about anything with their data… or yours! But those days are gone. With the General Data Protection Regulation now well underway, and the California Consumer Privacy ...

Digital transformation has been happening across the world for the last few decades as the traditional brick and mortar companies move from doing business face to face to having a virtual presence....

Dr. Eric Siegiel, founder of Predictive Analytics World, discusses Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning with our very own, Eric Kavanagh, during the 1st segment of today’s InsideAnalysis. Anal...

Just as Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Machine Learning have been around for a while, so has Natural Language Processing. However, it was the evolution of cloud computing & stora...

We’ve all heard that mantra: “The customer is always right.” That’s still true today, but perhaps even more so than ever before, in part because customers can leave brands at any moment, with only ...

There have been significant changes in computer hardware and software over the last decade that have completely changed the enterprise computing environment. The most obvious change is the Cloud an...

Cloud computing and storage has changed enterprise computing and business in general. As companies move from on-prem computing to the cloud, security and GDPR is a serious concern. On today’s Insid...

How big a deal is Kubernetes? Well, when SAP builds an entire solution on top of it (SAP Data Hub) and a company like MapR rearchitects its entire platform on top of it, those are two powerful sign...

The experts at O’Reilly recently conducted surveys to ascertain the adoption and use of Artificial Intelligence across a broad range of industries. Two of O’Reilly’s heaviest hitters, Ben Lorica an...

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t new. And in fact, there have been at least two “AI Winters” over the years. Those were periods of time that followed significant hype, when reality set in, and th...

  Tune in and listen to InsideAnalysis’s year long series on Artificial Intelligence. Our first AI show in February is with  Paul Heirendt of Trade Harbor. Trade Harbor uses AI and Machine Learning...

Once a year our President, Eric Kavanagh, updates us on The State of the Enterprise and he assures us the enterprise is strong and growing thanks to the power of the cloud and Big Data.  Tendu Yogu...

Can you govern data? And if so, what does that mean? InsideAnalysis is psyched to feature data governance expert John Ladley on today’s show! We’ll talk about trends in the industry, an...

Red-eyed robots notwithstanding, the power of artificial intelligence holds just about every facet of business in its crosshairs. There’s not a segment of the commercial world that will go un...

Today’s Cloud Computing infrastructure is completely changing enterprise software and providing companies big and small with new insights into every aspect of their businesses from supply to produc...

Serve yourself! That’s the mantra for many data management practices in this burgeoning Information Economy. Once viewed as a task performed by a few insiders in large organizations, the process of...

You’ve likely heard about the right to be forgotten, a key construct of the European Union’s recently implemented General Data Protection Regulation. But what about the right to be respected? Custo...

Arturo Suarez, Enrico Zimuel, Curtis Johnson & Larry Garfield were interviewed by Eric Kavanagh, the tireless Host of InsideAnalysis and DM Radio. InsideAnalysis was proud to be a sponsor at Ze...

Today, it has never been easier to startup a company; all you need is a cell phone and a credit card. If you have great people with experience and knowledge, in the information economy, you are hal...

The Enterprise is InsideAnalysis’s latest weekly talk show hosted by award-winning interviewer & journalist, Eric Kavanagh. Each week we interview the top minds of leading enterprise software c...

Legacy systems and old data: these artifacts pose serious challenges for the modern enterprise. How can companies reconcile the past with the present, and prepare for the future? Check out this epi...

We keep hearing about the importance of customer experience, which is code language for data quality combined with smart business processes. These days, the whole concept of digital transformation ...

The growth of cloud computing has raised the bar of innovation across the board and transcends industries. Computer hardware improvements are pacing the growth of cloud computing, data centres &...

What’s the fastest cloud-based data warehouse these days? What’s the cheapest? Well, data integration specialist Fivetran decided to find out! So, they orchestrated a TPC benchmark test for the fiv...

For the last few decades, organizations worldwide have increasingly recognized the remarkable power of data. Data warehouses became common in the 1990s, followed by sophisticated business intellige...

early 27 years ago, Linus Torvalds threw down the gauntlet and began a journey that continues to transform and fundamentally shape the software world. By releasing his open-source operating system,...

There’s a new sheriff in town, and the rules are getting more strict. With the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the Chinese Personal Information Security Specificatio...

Open Source Software has enabled innovative leaps in enterprise software and changed the way companies design, deploy, maintain and use software. Our host, Eric Kavanagh, is fond of saying, “bad co...

What, exactly, is ​FinTech, and why should you care? The simple answers: it’s tech innovation in financial services, and it affects just about everyone on planet earth. The impact can be seen throu...

Bottlenecks and compatibility between software and operating systems and the massive amounts of data collected in today’s serverless applications can cause serious concerns at scale. High per...

The old normal is now gone. The new normal is multifaceted, multivariate, and most of all: multi-cloud! Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Rackspace, and even SAP are all touting their cloud platforms. What’s...

A premier showing of Black Panther and a blowout event for the World Wrestling Federation: common occurrences in Western culture, but in the Middle East? My, how times have changed! The new possibi...

The machines just keep learning. From smartphones to self-driving cars, the universe of intelligent mechanization keeps on rolling. We may be a long way off from the so-called “Singularity” – but t...

When Hasso Plattner threw down the gauntlet more than a decade ago, many of the industry’s other titans merely shrugged. An entire platform built on in-memory technology? Pshaw! Some of the major p...

A common storyline in the news these days warns of Artificial Intelligence taking jobs away from hard-working people. A more realistic take is that AI increasingly augments professional activities....

The cloud made its first presence known in the 1990s, but that was a long time ago, and far far away in terms of functionality. Companies like AOL, Excite and Yahoo! all offered basic services like...

Many organizations weigh the benefits and risks of data lakes versus data warehouses. The former can be vast but slow, while the latter requires great effort to achieve the desired speed. But these...

The scalable compute power of the cloud has placed Machine Learning in the spotlight of what’s now possible with Big Data. The evolution of cloud computing — with readily accessible and ever-increa...

First came the data warehouse, then the data lake. Open-source upstarts Cloudera and Hortonworks jumped on the data lake concept quickly, touting their mastery of Apache Hadoop as key to their abil...

Software development in the enterprise took a major leap forward in the last few years, as the concept of DevOps took the industry by storm. Developers started working directly with operations pers...

What, exactly, is a modern data warehouse? How does it differ from a “traditional” data warehouse? Price? Performance? Architecture? Cloud-based? We’ll discuss this and so much mo...

The modern enterprise has arrived. Agile, proactive and contextually aware, this cutting-edge organization takes advantage of the many recent innovations that have redefined the business world. Ana...

All roads lead to cloud: (almost) everyone knows that now. The benefits so outweigh the risks, that even the stodgiest enterprise architects now see the handwriting on the ceiling. While the rules ...

World-famous luminary William Gibson once quipped: “The future is here already; it’s just not evenly distributed.” He may well have been thinking about artificial intelligence (AI...

InsideAnalysis 1/29/18 Radio Broadcast:  Attack of the Drones: Why Benefits Outweigh Risks

Serious decisions are increasingly being made by algorithms these days, but what does that really mean? And how does this affect issues like governance? compliance? strategic planning? Many of thes...

With a market cap now in excess of $700 billion, cryptocurrencies must be taken seriously. While Bitcoin remains the leader, there are scores of competing coins these days. Meanwhile, governments t...

You can’t connect the dots if you don’t collect the dots. So goes a long-standing mantra in detective work, as well as policing and surveillance in general. These days, a whole host of ...

The big data explosion that’s reshaping the world of business will be especially disruptive for multimedia content. The video tsunami is already well underway, and is expected to balloon in t...

We stand on the precipice of a healthcare revolution. Genomics and the spectrum of life sciences have reached a pinnacle in human history. Now, as a critical mass of information is analyzed at scal...

What happens when the cost of doing business drops significantly? Whole new business models are possible! That’s happening right now thanks to a host of innovations in cloud computing. Bandwidth ha...

Organizations all over the world are innovating by leaps and bounds these days thanks to the fast-maturing evolution of DevOps, short for development and operations. The benefits vary depending upo...

A cottage industry just a few years back, the business of analytics has taken modern industry by storm. Almost every innovative new business model leverages analytics to drive everything from sales...

Host Eric Kavanagh discusses Data Ops and the importance of automating database changes in the new app-driven world, with Robert Reeves, CTO of Datical.

hy wait? If you can understand what’s happening with your business right now, why put off the analysis? Streaming analytics gives you the ability to not only see what’s moving through y...

In the information economy, data is a critical asset, but so is metadata. In fact, metadata is the glue that holds information systems together. This becomes increasingly important with the rise of...

If you look at nearly every great advance in business, you’ll find a common theme: automation. In fact, every software application, at its root, serves to automate something. That’s esp...

Over the past quarter century, the Internet has arguably become the most pervasive manmade force in world history. In just the last few years, Web-based connectivity has revolutionized everything f...

Is anything safe on the interwebs these days? Hackers seem to be everywhere, and the threat is palpable. The unfortunate reality is that hacking is here to stay, and thus the cat-and-mouse game of ...

How advanced is your company’s data strategy? Are you just getting started? Fully mature? Somewhere in between? A data maturity model can help your organization appreciate where you are in leveragi...

Welcome, my son! Welcome… to the machine-learning algorithms! Seems like they’re everywhere these days. Some estimates peg the market at $37 billion by 2025. That’s a tall order, but given the numb...

Will smart robots take all our jobs by 2020? That’s highly unlikely, but some controversial figures like Elon Musk seem to wax philosophical on this topic. One area of concern is so-called Artifici...

Draw a Venn diagram of Analytics, Big Data and Cloud, and what’s in the middle? Success! Companies that find their sweet spot leveraging these three technologies will almost assuredly succeed. The ...

Check out this episode of #InsideAnalysis to learn about a clever concept called Data Pipeline as a Service. Host @eric_kavanagh interviews Yair Weinberger of Alooma.

Legendary American merchant John Wanamaker once quipped: “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don’t know which half.” That was then; and this is now...

Who’s safe anymore online? The short answer is no one. Hackers have become so proficient, their industry so lucrative, that every business with an online presence must take threats seriously....

One thing’s for sure in the world of Big Data: it’s big! That goes for the benefits and the troubles. The companies that succeed in using this natural resource effectively are the ones that think s...

  Like the Roman Empire, Cloud Computing pervades. In today’s business world, the Cloud surrounds practically every industry, touching every aspect of commerce, from supply chain to analytics, book...

How does the United States Postal Service deal with rerouting issues when postal employees call in sick? or when weather conditions are prohibitive? Part of their solution involves Kinetica, a high...

The information economy has arrived. All around the world, companies are leveraging the power of data to invent new offerings, carve out new niches, and in some cases, upend entire industries. Cons...