Black Oak Analytics has been all over the world so far this summer, and will continue to travel as our staff and leadership team continue to meet with partners and clients. This week in particular, Black Oak is sending our Chief Science Officer, Dr. John Talburt, to the Data Governance…
Black Oak Presents at the International Conference on Information Quality 2016 in Ciudad Real, Spain
In the news so far this summer we’ve been reading about the 2016 Olympics in Rio. While Black Oak hasn’t yet been able to send any of our team members to the Olympics, we do have our CSO Dr. Talburt in Ciudad Real, Spain for the next few days attending…
Leaner Is Meaner: The Keys to Effective Customer Record Deduplication
It often happens that the information for the same customer is entered differently by the different departments of your business. The result is that the customer may have many different entries in your customer database, but what instance should you use? If a customer changed jobs, moved, or was there…
Springtime Black Oak Update
As summer approaches, we have a lot of things brewing here at Black Oak. We have been chosen by the South Big Data Regional Innovation Hub (sponsored by the National Science Foundation) as a host company for their Southern Startup Internship Program in Data Science. “The program is designed to…
Defining PII and How It Impacts Your Customer Matching Processes
In order to fully use your customer relationship management data, you need to maximize the accuracy of your customer matching processes. That means you need to implement high-precision entity resolution technology to identify potential customers more efficiently. The process of identifying particular individuals through specific personal data, called personally identifiable…
Black Oak’s HiPER: Data Quality on Big Data
Black Oak recently did two things: We sent our CSO Dr. Talburt to the White House to participate in a round table of 80 industry thought leaders who were discussing how to improve data quality in open data. We also just published a blog about how Collection is Not Enough;…
Collection Is Not Enough: You Have the Data, Now What?
A customer data management software system contains a treasure trove of information. Once properly implemented, your challenge is to integrate the data you collect effectively and leverage your insights to improve operations and make better business decisions. Along with this challenge is the necessity of developing strategies for keeping your data…
Dr. Talburt Is Heading to the White House
On Wednesday, April 27, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Center for Open Data Enterprise are co-hosting an Open Data Roundtable on Improving Data Quality and they have invited Dr. Talburt. This discussion is the second of four Open Data Roundtables being scheduled this year,…
What Can Your Entity Resolution Software Do for You?
Entity resolution software for big data is a powerful tool to help businesses sort through complex, large data sets and organize that information in a coherent, usable manner. By leveraging entity resolution, organizations like yours can make connections faster and use those connections to drive better business decisions. In other words, entity…
Press Release: Black Oak Analytics Launches New Website
Enterprise Data Management Firm Partners with iProv, LLC to Develop New Website Little Rock, AR – Black Oak Analytics, a leading provider of custom data management solutions, has launched a new website. Developed by iProv, LLC, the new website provides in-depth information about how the company’s entity resolution software, data-driven…