This audio blog focuses on the importance of establishing a strong relationship between business and technical teams and describes various business engagement models that sit at the heart of all successful data analytics programs.

How do you organize a data analytics program to maximize value for the organization? Although there is no right or wrong way to do this, several patterns emerge when you examine successful organizations.

Originally published at https://www.eckerson.com/articles/organizing-for-success-part-ii-how-to-organize-a-data-analytics-program

Explore how data analytics leaders can balance the use of specialists and generalists.

Originally published at https://www.eckerson.com/articles/specialists-or-generalists

In this episode, Wayne Eckerson and Rich Galan discuss the obstacles to delivering timely analysis, the problems that large volumes of data create, solutions to those issues, and where BI is headed in the near future. Rich is a veteran data analytics leader with 20 years of experience in a variety of data-driven organizations.

In this episode, Wayne Eckerson and Lenin Gali discuss the past and future of the cloud and big data.

Gali is a data analytics practitioner who has always been on the leading edge of where business and technology intersect. He was one of the first to move data analytics to the cloud when he was BI director at ShareThis, a social media based services provider. He was instrumental in defining an enterprise analytics strategy, developing a data platform that brought games and business data together to enable thousands of data users to build better games and services by using Hadoop & Teradata while at Ubisoft. He is now spearheading the creation of a Hadoop-based data analytics platform at Quotient, a digital marketing technology firm in the retail industry.