IT consulting and advisory firm Cutter Consortium announced its Data Integration, BI & Collaboration practice will now be known as the Data Insight & Social BI practice.

Ken Collier

Ken Collier, the recently-appointed director of the practice, said "the revised name better reflects both the trends in the market and the content, from research and webinars to consulting and training, that we provide for our clients."

Cutter's Data Insight & Social BI (DBS) practice includes research, consulting, and training services around data-driven decision support topics including the emerging hot buttons — social BI, social analytics, location-based computing and mobile apps, Big Data, columnar databases, associative databases, in-memory analytics — as well as the fundamentals of data warehousing, master data management, data integration, data cleansing, enterprise modeling, data governance, analytics, business intelligence, and related topics such as business performance management, critical-event processing, and others.

To interview Mr. Collier, or for more information on Data Insight & Social BI practice, contact Kim Leonard at press@cutter.com or 1-781-648-8700.

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