The SiriusDecisions B-to-B Buying Decision Process Framework

whitePaper | April 1, 2021

Metadata is more important now than ever. New technologies have enabled businesspeople who have traditionally not been analysts to work with data. The consumerization of IT means people expect systems to be intuitive and require little training. With so many people using data to support so many kinds of decisions, it’s critical that your data is described, defined, and understood.

whitePaper | February 10, 2022

Modern data governance leaders are searching for the role that governance should play in delivering high-quality data.

whitePaper | February 19, 2020

Artificial Intelligence is developing fast. It will change our lives by improving healthcare (e.g. making diagnosis more precise, enabling better prevention of diseases), increasing the efficiency of farming, contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation, improving the efficiency of production systems through predictive maintenance, increasing the security of Europeans, and in many other ways that we can only begin to imagine. At the same time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) entails a number of potential risks, such as opaque decision-making, gender-based or other kinds of discrimination, intrusion in our private lives or being used for criminal purposes.

whitePaper | August 12, 2021

This BARC Score report will evaluate BI & analytics platforms on a range of features, from data visualization capabilities to semantic modeling abilities, performance and speed to automation capabilities.

whitePaper | March 12, 2020

Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) is the penultimate phase of Acceptance Testing in a Software Testing Life cycle and is the last defence line between a software development project and deployment of software on production. FFor decedes, Operational Acceptance has been undermined and misunderstood. Where User Acceptance has been written about and hailed as a final phase in testing before production. User Acceptance is but one side of the coin, Operational Acceptance is the other.

whitePaper | February 7, 2020

Multiple studies have proven that, while the business demand for databases grows, operational teams are constrained by traditional, reactive processes. Combined with budgetary pressures, this causes them to fall short in meeting the demand in a timely fashion. In addition, as companies adopt cloud paradigms, operational teams must manage across on-premises and cloud environments with the same resources. To be effective, companies need to shift from a reactive posture to one of standardization and proactive analysis and planning by leveraging intuitive tooling to automate manually intensive and non-value adding activities and to deliver real-time insights.