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Analyst Viewpoint HR professionals and business leaders today have a challenging new set of workforce dynamics to deal with. They need to attract and retain talent from multiple generations with different career and compensation goals and interests. In today’s tight labor market organizations must remain talent-competitive by constantly evaluating the effectiveness of how they entice and incent... Read More

Topics: Human Capital Management


Analyst Viewpoint For many organizations, analytics processes are riddled with roadblocks. There are many valid reasons why these roadblocks existed in the past, and they were often based on technical limitations. Even though storage and compute capacity have increased dramatically, many of the approaches that were designed for the constraints of the past are still in place today. It’s time to... Read More

Topics: Analytics


Analyst Viewpoint Collectively, we are amid a transition from data at rest to data in motion. Large volumes of data are streaming into organizations from all sides and with increasing frequency, forcing organizations to rethink how they process data. And the changing nature of the frequency with which data informs decisions requires a corresponding change in analytic approaches. The batch... Read More

Topics: Analytics


Analyst Viewpoint Good analytics requires planning and good planning requires analytics. These worlds have largely been kept separate for decades but they shouldn’t be because each activity informs the other. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to conjoin the two; in our recent Value Index assessment of Analytics and Business Intelligence vendors, only one-third of the vendors we evaluated offered... Read More

Topics: Analytics


Analyst Viewpoint As data volumes and data velocities increase, more and more decisions involving that data are being made using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) technologies. However, operationalizing AI and ML models requires a dynamic, modern data architecture. Relying on traditional data management architectures that employ batch processing won’t be sufficient to deal... Read More

Topics: Digital Technology


Analyst Viewpoint Streaming data will be transformative to the future of financial services organizations. It can provide the critical, timely information needed to deliver world-class customer service, detect and prevent fraud, tie together disparate legacy systems or power new services and sources of revenue. In the past, most financial services systems had a transaction-oriented approach; each... Read More

Topics: Big Data


Analyst Viewpoint While it may be common knowledge that financial services organizations include annual cash components as the cornerstone of their compensation plans, effectively managing the more unique and complex aspects of these plans is essential. Awards allocation processes and decisions at these organizations can be very dynamic and iterative, and while average overall compensation levels... Read More

Topics: Human Capital Management


Analyst Viewpoint Streaming data is transforming how retailers operate. Retail’s evolution from brick-and-mortar to omnichannel has provided organizations with better information about customer behavior while also increasing the expectations of consumers regarding their customer experience. Online and mobile applications have become the norm and shoppers now expect real-time information about... Read More

Topics: Big Data


Analyst Viewpoint Organizations today have access to data about nearly everything related to their business. This includes customer preferences, operations on the production line, movement of goods through the supply chain, location of field service personnel and an ever-expanding host of other data from numerous sources. The challenge for any organization is how to ensure it will take advantage... Read More

Topics: Analytics


Analyst Viewpoint In today’s fluid operating environment, organizations must be agile and resilient to deal successfully with unpredictable events and rapid changes in their operating environment. They must stay ahead of business risks and opportunities by having the right people, data, processes and technology to deal with: Shifts in how and where people work Ever-changing regulations and... Read More

Topics: Office of Finance