In our most recent blog post we discussed how a company’s internal data has numerous benefits for the organization. We gave examples of how internal data can help a company’s decision making, marketing strategy, and sales outcomes. In this post, we’ve decided to delve into one of those benefits with greater detail and highlight the…Read More
Recently, on the Treehouse Technology Group blog we’ve discussed the importance of data strategy. However, an important factor in establishing an effective data strategy is to include a robust data architecture. Let’s begin with defining data architecture. According to the Harvard Business Review, data architecture “describes how data is collected, stored, transformed, distributed and…Read More
The private equity industry is just beginning to tap into the power of data to evaluate potential investment targets and grow portfolio companies. There are several underlying technology trends at play to enable the rise of big data, including enormous increases in computing power, cloud computing architecture and inexpensive storage. Leveraging the right data analytics…Read More
When quality data is used for insights, enterprise businesses perform better. Extracting these insights from high volumes of data requires a robust and seamless data integration system. Businesses store their data in a variety of formats from databases to data warehouses. Information gets added to these data stores on a daily basis, although much of…Read More
Companies are increasingly realizing the benefits to adopting a digital-first strategy, but are overwhelmed at the prospect of implementing these initiatives. In fact, a recent study found that 89% of organizations have plans to adopt a digital-first business strategy, however, only 44% have fully adopted this approach. At the root of these concerns is…Read More
Over the last decade we have seen the world of big data dramatically evolve. Prior to 2006, the technology did not exist to make sense of big data. It was too expensive to store all of the data a company generated, and there was not enough computing power to make sense of the information regardless…Read More
The rise of big data has raised many questions for decision makers of enterprise businesses. One of these questions revolves around the topic of structured vs. unstructured data. Understanding these data types can help companies make better data-based decisions and develop cost-saving solutions. Data analysts and business stakeholders rely on data to produce actionable…Read More
A guest blog from Andrew Gazdecki at Foxpass. Foxpass increases your organization’s server and network security by ensuring employee accounts have access only to what they need. Their cloud-based LDAP, RADIUS, and server access control systems help you bring best security practices to your infrastructure. The network security industry is in a perpetual game of cat and rat (sorry,…Read More
In a time when Goliaths with massive market shares control almost every sector, there exists an extraordinary anomaly: craft breweries. In fact, between 2008 and 2016, the number of breweries expanded by a factor of six, and the number of brewery workers grew by 120 percent. With all this growth has come an overwhelming amount…Read More
Every year, Spiceworks, a professional network for the information technology industry, produces an annual report looking at IT budgets and tech trends. Their latest report, released this month, includes the results of a survey of more than 700 business technology buyers in North America and Europe. According to the report, nearly 90 percent of companies…Read More