Oversight Blog

Our approach, and the approach that I believe is the next generation of business intelligence, is what I like to call the "Star Trek" approach. Even i...

As Oversight moves forward into the holiday season, we wanted to take a moment to recap our big “wins” for the quarter. It’s been a banner year for Ov...

In this great blog by Syncsort, author Mary Hiers posits that there is a dearth of big data going to waste due to the fact that companies do not have ...

John Lucker, Principal and Global Advanced Analytics and Modeling Leader at Deloitte, describes breakthrough analytics that transform strategy (and as...

I recently read a great article from CIOonline about the need for a good relationship between the Chief Information Officer and Chief Marketing Office...

Douglas Merrill is spot on in his assessment of the “button effect” with data analysis; the “button effect” being the instance when someone becomes so...

A few weeks ago, some of you may have heard about Facebook’s big user experiment, wherein they manipulated user posts to find out if exposure to emoti...

Forrester’s “The Power of Real-Time Insight” survey (done in conjunction with Oversight partner, Concur) is an interesting view of the realities of tr...

Enjoyed this blog post by Julien Rio, about his recent presentation at The Big Data and Innovation Conference that small and medium enterprises can, i...

I enjoyed this article from Robert Kugel, and thoroughly agree with its premise: that big data and analytics can be leveraged to make better business ...

Below are my thoughts on the article "What You Don't Know Can Hurt You" by John Verver. For background, John Verver is a semi-retired senior executive...

CFO raises a compelling question: What is the Role of Intuition in a World of Big Data?

This is the third and final entry in my series on the evolution of business intelligence, from challenges with deriving value from traditional busines...

A recent InFocus blog post, “Business Analytics: Moving from Descriptive to Predictive Analytics”, by data analytics expert William Schmarzo intrigued...

In my previous entry on this topic, I laid out three key challenges to driving value from traditional BI solutions:

Business Intelligence (also known as dashboarding, reporting, Enterprise Performance Management, and other names, but referenced as ‘BI’ in this post)...

The Future of CIO blog hit the nail on the head with the posting “Predictive Analytics vs. Prescriptive Analytics”, when it raised the key question on...

Earlier this week, Reuters issued a daunting report on the Pentagon’s accounting practices and inability to properly track expenses. Certainly sheddin...

I recently read a LinkedIn discussion in the Gartner Business Intelligence & Information Management (Xchange) group that was started by analyst Doug L...

A recent piece in Travel Market Report notes this commentary from Harvard Business School visiting professor Thomas Davenport, Ph.D.: “For travel sell...

We follow a lot of analysts, consultants, and vendors on topics related to data analysis and big data. Many discussions today focus on the shortage of...

I follow a number of LinkedIn groups that discuss data analysis and big data topics and find it interesting that these groups are mainly dominated by ...

A recent Buying Business Travel article noted how big data has become the buzz word of the year. More important than buzz, however, are the important ...

In a new report available from GigaOM research highlights Operational Intelligence Platforms such as Oversight as the needed prescription for transfor...

Sandhill.com recently published a good Q&A article interviewing SumoLogic’s Christian Beedgen and discussing big data analysis and cloud trends. Altho...

As it pertains to the recent InformationWeek article “Big Data ROI Still Tough to Measure,” we appreciate the attention to the need to make big data a...

In a recent ZD Net article entitled “Data Scientists Don’t Scale”, author Andrew Brust makes some very compelling points supporting the notion that an...

Participating in DATA Demo Day yesterday reminded me why the fight to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in federal government is a fight that can be w...

Oversight is proud to be invited by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, led by Chairman Darrell Issa, to present at the DATA Demon...

The recent Harvard Business Review article “The Value of Big Data Isn't the Data” generated interesting points and counterpoints in comments left betw...

Last time, I wrote about evidential reasoning as a necessary technique for an analysis system. To recap, using a single approach to identify fraud, su...

It’s been a very busy month here at Oversight. We announced updates to our Operations Analysis Platform – all aimed at bridging the gap between the ha...

I recently experienced the excitement and energy around Big Data first-hand as Oversight was selected to attend the GigaOM Structure Data conference i...

After reading Tech Journal’s recent article “Big Data Comes with Big Obstacles for Some CIOs,” my advice to CIOs looking at Big Data as a challenge is...