Foreword

Andy Palmer

In 2014, it’s no longer a question of whether1 to become an analytics-driven organization, but how.

William McKnight tells us how beautifully, in this definitive book. It’s an easily understood, action-oriented guide for Information Managers who want to help their organizations compete on data analytics in an era of Big Data and rapid technological innovation.

Successful analytics-driven organizations will build information architectures that match analytics workloads in the context of key questions that people in their organizations need to answer in order to create value on the front lines of their business. The best architectures will be loosely coupled so that they can absorb rapidly changing new technologies to meet ...

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