No, I haven’t abandoned blogging for the past year! During 2015 I’ve been discussing the topic of data preparation and analytics on blogs.DataDirect.com, the social media outlet for the Data Connectivity and Integration business unit of Progress Software. See https://blogs.datadirect.com/author/richjulius
Here is a list of recent posts:
Cloudy with a Chance of Marketing
Rich Julius brings clear skies to marketing operations with better data preparation for business intelligence tools. Among all the line of business (LOB) disciplines, marketing arguably has the most need for business intelligence (BI). Marketing is both an art and a…
Fast Track to Awesome Analytics with Easy Data Blending
Rich Julius shares some tips for generating awesome analytics with better data blending. You have so much data, so many questions and so little time to actually analyze it. You might even have access to an advanced analytics or business intelligence (BI) tool for…
How to integrate OpenEdge data with other sources
Blending data from different sources unlocks new insights and revenue opportunities. Everyone knows about the importance of data integration, but few manage to implement it successfully. That’s because there’s a step to the integration process that often goes…
The Data Wrangler: Tips for Easy Data Prep Part III
What do you think of when you hear the word “data?” Databases, right? Big Data, NoSQL, cloud based applications like Salesforce or Marketo or Oracle Marketing Cloud, also known as Eloqua. Perhaps oceans of data in Google Analytics, or systems of record (SORs) built on…
Seven Reasons Why Timely Analytics Is So Hard
Rich Julius introduces 7 data preparation and data blending challenges that delay timely analytics. The driving force behind business intelligence and analytics is a need for information. Every day, we ask questions such as, “How good are we at converting leads?” Or,…
Data Integration: Easy as ABL
We know that our Progress® OpenEdge® community is always looking for new revenue streams. Whether it’s new professional services offerings or new features that customers are demanding, business never sits still. We also know that with today’s highly connected…
The Data Wrangler: Tips for Easy Data Prep Part II
For the second installment in the Data Wrangler series (see my previous post), I wanted to share with you how to easily blend data from Google Analytics with marketing campaign data from systems like Eloqua, Marketo and Salesforce. For example, let’s say you want to…
The Data Wrangler: Tips for Easy Data Preparation Part I
Product management organizations are often focused on markets and competition, but nothing is more satisfying—and arguably more important—than working with clients to see our products solving real business problems around data analysis. So I take a genuine interest in…