Few industries have access to more data regarding consumers, products, and channels than the retail and consumer industries. Data-derived insights should be at the heart of what drives this business. Yet beyond the hype, most attempts at using big data to build a competitive advantage have been dismal failures.
Poor customer service is choking many retail businesses — and most won’t stop using the wrong tools in order to right the ships. Here’s what they should be doing.
Any firm involved in mortgage processing, servicing, or securitization knows legal discovery and subpoena response is a risky, costly and error prone. A universal mortgage document or metadata repository should be the backbone of any discovery process in the mortgage industry. Here’s why.
Part one of the 0 to 100 series — with inspiration from Drake Working with relational databases for a number of years, I had become quite attached to their well-defined organization, subsequent predictability, and reliability. Then I looked at NoSQL databases with both tree and graph structures. In studying the need for these additional types […]