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Google Brings a “NoSQL-Like” Database to the Cloud

by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM reports, ” It doesn’t have a cool...

‘Project Kraken’ Could Make Big Data Tools More Efficient

by Angela Guess Rachel King of ZDnet reports, “SAP and Hewlett-Packard have shed light on a secret product in...

IBM Helps L’Oreal Pump Up Its Purchasing Power

by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports that IBM has...

Data Job of the Day: Data Scientist – Healthcare

by Angela Guess CVS Caremark is looking for a Data Scientist – Healthcare in...

Upcoming Webinars

May 23 Webinar: Big Challenges in Data Modeling

DATE: May 23, 2013 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees. This Month’s Topic Focus: Modeling Governance – Is There Such a Thing? This Webinar is Sponsored by: About the Presentation We invite you to join us in this monthly DATAVERSITY webinar series, “Big Challenges with Data Modeling” hosted by Karen Lopez. Join Karen and two or more expert panelists each month to discuss their experiences in breaking through these specific data modeling challenges. Hear from experts in the field...
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May 29 Webinar: Como criar e gerenciar com sucesso uma organização de dados

DATE: May 29, 2013 TIME: 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees NOTE! This Webinar will be presented in Portuguese. We’re excited to reach out to our international audience in your native languages! About the Webinar For the last few years, data science, data analytics and data management have achieved tremendous exposure on all the media channels. However, it is really interesting that just a selected group of business has created successful data teams and has mastered...
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May 30 Webinar: Helping HR to Cross the Big Data Chasm

DATE: May 30, 2013 TIME: 2 PM Eastern / 11 AM Pacific PRICE: Free to all attendees About the Webinar Since last year, Big Data has become a major topic of discussion, catalyzing attention among the C-Level executives and driving investments and projects inside the enterprise. But there is one component that can put halt some initiatives : PEOPLE. According to McKinsey, there will be a shortage by 2018 of 140,000 to 190,000 people with analytical skills to work with Big Data. But which...
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Blogs

Big Data Supports Development of a Visual Business Case

May 15, 2013

by James Kobielus Big data with zero relevance to your business needs is essentially the same as no data at all. Recently, I came across an interesting article that introduced the word “evidence” into the discussion of data relevance. It’s an interesting choice because...
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May 2013 Letter from the Editor

May 10, 2013

We just returned from San Diego, California having produced our annual Enterprise Data World 2013 Conference and Expo (#EDW13). It was an exceptional conference this year, though of course I am a bit biased. What made it exceptional this year to me was all...
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The Return on Data Governance

May 8, 2013

by Ian Rowlands Governance programs can’t survive unless there is demonstrable long-term financial benefit for the business. I’m just back from Enterprise Data World. If you missed it, start making plans for EDW 2014 in Austen. EDW is the gathering of the Data Management...
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Is Privacy Possible in the Era of Big Data?

April 24, 2013

by James Kobielus Can you have big data with airtight personal data privacy? In the age of ubiquitous over sharing and zealous big-data-driven hyper-analysis, digital privacy has become elusive and hard to attain. With the proliferation of internet usage, and the reliance on internet...
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Just a Feel Good Blog

April 17, 2013

by Sue Geuens I talk about data all day and every day. After all it’s my job, my passion and what brings in my salary. So sometimes I feel like talking about something else – and today I just want to talk about stuff....
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Articles

Analyzing Big Data: Lavastorm Analytics Engine

by Jelani Harper Any quick search indicates that there’s no shortage of analytics technologies to extract meaning from Big Data. Yet, a review of the recent activity of Lavastorm Analytics reveals that its Lavastorm Analytics Engine may be one of the more viable. At the end of April 2013, the company partnered with Datawatch...

A Closer Look at the MongoDB Document Database

by Paul Williams The document database, MongoDB, is currently one of the most prevalent NoSQL databases on the market. MongoDB offers both open-source and enterprise versions with the complete support of its developers 10gen. It provides an innovative tool for an individual developer experimenting with the freely available community edition and more robust functionality...

Enterprise Data World 2013 Conference Overview

by Jelani Harper Numbers don’t lie: 800 attendees. 27 different countries. 7 continents. 12 individual tracks (plus combinations). 5 days and one idyllic location. Representing a range of industries from financial to education, media to healthcare, and attended by professionals from franchises such as Walmart, Bank of America, and McDonald’s, the event was truly...