India, April 16 -- Enterprise organizations traditionally have had a multitude of choices for tools when it comes to analytics and business intelligence. But budget dollars for software licenses? Those are a little harder to get. When you stack up your budget against today's typical goals of expanding the population of users to include all the business analysts and citizen data scientists, well, something's got to give.
That's the position that T-Mobile's national engineering group found itself in a few years ago. Although the company was "always pushing the envelope of technology" it offered to its external customers, "internally our systems were ancient and we never took care of the tools we used internally," said Gregg Anderson, princip...