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Transforming Enterprise Productivity with Advanced AI Assistance from Amazon Q

Technology has evolved significantly from dial-up connections to cloud computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI). As a result, businesses must now adopt AI solutions that push their operations beyond using traditional tools. One such solution…

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Business Analytics, Data Management, Featured

Building Your Data & Analytics Roadmap One Use Case at a Time

IT and business leaders share a common goal – to leverage the data available to them in order to make more informed business decisions. The first step to achieving that goal is to create a data & analytics roadmap, a task many companies…

Business Analytics

The CIO and Analytics Strategy: Ironside’s Take

CIO and IDG released the 2017 State of the CIO report this week. Their findings are useful not just for the CIO role in general but also for exploring the connection between the CIO and analytics initiatives. Looking at the report through the…

Data Management

Understanding Data Governance: Tools, Documents, Processes, and People

Data governance is a common need across organizations, and can be a very challenging subject to tackle. Understanding data governance's components, what good governance looks like, and the drivers behind adopting it is essential to creating…

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Business Analytics, Data Management

3 Reasons Your Data & Analytics Roadmap Isn’t Helping You Reach Your Goals

Creating a data and analytics roadmap is an important first step in helping your organization utilize data to achieve growth, understanding, and action. But often we hear from clients that their roadmap isn't leading them to their desired destination.…

Business Analytics

Take a Value Based Approach to Your Analytics Platform Migration

Analytics platform migrations and upgrades are among Ironside's core competencies. We’ve been doing them since our inception, and we do a lot of them. Here are four common pitfalls that we’ve seen organizations from a variety of industries…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

3 Reasons to Start Your Upgrade from Cognos BI to Cognos Analytics Right Now

As we’ve mentioned before, as of April 2018 there will be limited extended support for Cognos 10.x. Sure, that sounds like a long time from now, but if there’s anything I’ve learned from my time in enterprise IT, it’s that making a change…

Business Analytics

Defining An Analytics Strategy

LEXINGTON, Mass., Dec. 12, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Ironside, a Boston-based data and analytics firm, just released an authoritative list of questions that they recommend business leaders try to answer now in planning for their analytics initiatives. Today,…

Business Analytics

Navigating Tableau Conference 2016: An Interview with Crystal Meyers and Katelyn Tolbert

We’re getting ready for Tableau Conference 2016 here at Ironside. With only a short time left until November 7th, our team is preparing for which parts of the conference they’re most excited to take in. And, more importantly, developing…

Awards & Recognition

Boston Data & Analytics Service Firm Names New COO

LEXINGTON, MA - Ironside, a Boston enterprise data and analytics service firm announced last week the appointment of David Michelson, Chief Operating Officer. Michelson joins the company with over 20 years of business and technical consulting…

Business Analytics, Technology Spotlight

Cognos Analytics Release 4: Most Compelling New Features

As part of the accelerated release schedule initiated with the introduction of Cognos Analytics last December, IBM made the latest release, Cognos 11.0.4 aka Cognos Analytics Release 4, available on September 16th. While each of the previous…

Ironside is a data, analytics, and AI consulting and technology implementation company. We work with clients to understand their business objectives and day-to-day challenges, then employ our deep expertise in data strategy, architecture and engineering, integration, business intelligence, AI, and generative AI. We create technical solutions and practical approaches designed to drive smarter, data-driven decisions across a company and help it move further and faster toward its business goals.

Welcome to our blog.

Transforming Enterprise Productivity with Advanced AI Assistance from Amazon Q

Building Your Data & Analytics Roadmap One Use Case at a Time

The CIO and Analytics Strategy: Ironside’s Take

Understanding Data Governance: Tools, Documents, Processes, and People

3 Reasons Your Data & Analytics Roadmap Isn’t Helping You Reach Your Goals

Take a Value Based Approach to Your Analytics Platform Migration

3 Reasons to Start Your Upgrade from Cognos BI to Cognos Analytics Right Now

Defining An Analytics Strategy

Navigating Tableau Conference 2016: An Interview with Crystal Meyers and Katelyn Tolbert

Boston Data & Analytics Service Firm Names New COO

Cognos Analytics Release 4: Most Compelling New Features

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