Labor Day is over and students are back in college. The smart ones know that a career in data analysis will ensure their education will be put to use for the foreseeable future. But the question remains, what is the best major for a career in business intelligence?

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Easy Metrics, a Seattle startup founded by U.S. Naval Academy grads Dean Dorcas and Dan Keto, has pulled in $3.3 million in fresh funding.
Dorcas and Keto, both economics grads from the Naval Academy, previously co-founded Integrated Management Systems. They started Ea...

Millions of users of online services from Linkedin to Twitter, in industries from finance to healthcare have had their data stolen, accidentally published, or hacked since 2004. Filter the results and read the interesting back stories with this infographic by Informati...

Analytics Team Makeup

Before we get into discussing how to hire the head of analytics, let’s talk about the team makeup. The team can include people with expertise such as:

1. The Head of Analytics, who drives the analytics agenda and leverages his team to execute agai...

View-BI’s Report Automation software is an appliance that leverages a traditional reporting system (such as Cognos, Business Objects or Microsoft Reporting), automating every step of filling out user inputs, executing the report, retrieving the output, distributing and...

Are you hiring the right consulting firm for the job?

1. When did you last conduct a comprehensive market analysis of the providers available to you and their strengths and weaknesses? If you’ve been hiring firms for the same work over time, have you examined the oppo...