scottrobinson, Author at TechRepublic

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Scott Robinson is a 20-year IT veteran with extensive experience in business intelligence and systems integration. An enterprise architect with a background in social psychology, he frequently consults and lectures on analytics, business intelligence and social informatics, primarily in the health care and HR industries.

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Tech & Work

Design even more brilliant apps thanks to enterprise social media

If you want to build better in-house apps, and strengthen the ones you already have, leverage social media and engage the entire user base to get the best possible design input.

CXO

5 mandatory IT skills for successful compliance officers

Cloud and mobile computing make IT compliance more complicated and demanding. Here's what it takes to satisfy the required regulatory oversight of data.

Tech & Work

Don’t stifle creativity: Let app designers and architects work from home

Work-at-home policies save organizations significant money, yet some still resist the idea that creative IT pros can produce more at home than at the office. Here are reasons to make the change.

Tech & Work

5 hidden talents of a social strategist wizard

Being a Facebook and Twitter user doesn't uniquely qualify someone to be a social media strategist. Here's what it takes to be a superstar in that role.

Big Data

3 must-have skills of effective analytics solution designers

Business analytics requires a mindset far afield of traditional IT solution building, and different from conventional BI. Find out which skills work to the analytics solution builder's advantage.

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CXO

Turn the geek mix to 11: Cognitive diversity makes for a better IT shop

The idea that all developers, analysts, and architects think alike is a myth. The strongest IT shops have a generous mix of personality types.

Security

A letter to my daughter: your privacy in the age of the internet

Millennials are growing up with very different ideas about privacy and information security than those of us who actually built the digital world we now live in.

Security

J. Edgar Hoover would have loved the internet

The case of Edward Snowden and the subsequent revelations about the behaviors of the NSA raise serious questions about privacy, liberty and the future role of the internet, by way of J. Edgar Hoover.

Big Data

Prepare for the challenges of deploying machine learning for analytics

Machine learning is the holy grail of analytics, but getting it in place includes some serious challenges.

Data Centers

Speed up data warehouse queries with SQL Server columnstore indexing

SQL Server 2012's columnstore index feature isn't particularly glamorous, but it takes a long stride toward improved efficiency.

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Design even more brilliant apps thanks to enterprise social media

5 mandatory IT skills for successful compliance officers

Don’t stifle creativity: Let app designers and architects work from home

5 hidden talents of a social strategist wizard

3 must-have skills of effective analytics solution designers

Turn the geek mix to 11: Cognitive diversity makes for a better IT shop

A letter to my daughter: your privacy in the age of the internet

J. Edgar Hoover would have loved the internet

Prepare for the challenges of deploying machine learning for analytics

Speed up data warehouse queries with SQL Server columnstore indexing

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