Contributor: William McKnight
McKnight Consulting Group is led by William McKnight. He serves as strategist, lead enterprise information architect, and program manager for sites worldwide utilizing the disciplines of data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence, and big data. Many of his clients have gone public with their success stories. McKnight has published hundreds of articles and white papers and given hundreds of international keynotes and public seminars. His teams’ implementations from both IT and consultant positions have won awards for best practices. William is a former IT VP of a Fortune 50 company and a former engineer of DB2 at IBM, and holds an MBA. He is author of the book Information Management: Strategies for Gaining a Competitive Advantage with Data.
All articles by William McKnight
In improving analytics, we often focus on obtaining more powerful platforms and bigger data. We neglect the second half of the equation: the abilities of our business users.
- By William McKnight
- June 12, 2017
The many possibilities for data platforms create headaches for the data architects, but this multi-faceted decision can be broken down into three decisions.
- By William McKnight
- March 31, 2017
Companies with customers, supply chains, partners, and offices in multiple countries must understand how cross-border data restrictions affect cloud computing policy.
- By William McKnight
- March 17, 2017
Statistical models and machine learning algorithms are often mysterious and confusing for average business and data professionals. However, even the most math-adverse can reach some understanding.
- By William McKnight
- February 22, 2017
Future businesses will be defined by new efficiencies, strategies, and business models created with data-driven knowledge. If companies wish to maintain traditional on-premises ERP solutions, they will face costs and compromises.
- By William McKnight
- February 7, 2017
Data platforms must play their real, architected roles in your environment. Platform consolidation can save you money and headaches.
- By William McKnight
- January 6, 2017