I had the pleasure of attending Cloud Expo Europe last week and it was a blast! As the biggest gathering of thought leaders and practitioners in Europe, the show drew extremely knowledgeable attendees who made strong business cases for cloud computing....
If you follow IT news, you know that January is the time of predictions. Everyone has thoughts on what’s to come in the realms of Big Data, Cloud, SaaS, analytics – you name it! If it has implications in the business world, someone’s making a prediction about it.
I recently read one such piece...
From recent consulting projects, I have learned that analyzing data in Microsoft Office enables unique and valuable business insights across an organization. In particular, these projects were based on ODBC connectivity to Excel/Access from applications such as SAS (SAS/Access interface to ODBC),...
With 2013 fast approaching, everyone is speculating about what the New Year will bring, especially when it comes to the IT industry. Here at DataDirect, we didn’t want to miss out on the forecasting fun, so we took a moment to reflect on the events of 2012 and look at what can be expected in 2013....