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by Angela Guess Craig Raeburn recently commented on what he sees as the main obstacles preventing companies from putting their data to work. Raeburn writes, “With advanced technologies and internal and external data available to be leveraged, the time has never been better to put data to work. However, introducing a performance management program...
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by Angela Guess Brian Hopkins of Forrester Research recently answered a few questions about the future of Big Data processing. Hopkins stated, “I think what technology consumers are going to see over the next 12 to 18 months is a whole rush of vendors incorporating big data capabilities into their technologies have...
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by Angela Guess Steve Mills was recently interviewed about Big Data at IBM and in general. Mills is Senior Vice President and Group Executive of IBM Software and Systems: “He has some 100,000 employees reporting to him and oversees the operations that contribute about $40 billion worth of IBM’s revenue. If you were to...
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by Angela Guess Gap Inc. is looking for a Vice President of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence in San Bruno, CA: “The VP Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) & Business Intelligence (BI) is responsible for the Gap Inc. Enterprise Data Warehouse, made up of Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Outlet, Gap Inc. Direct, Sourcing...
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by Angela Guess Rick Sherman recently wrote that “people and policies need to be on the front burner when you initiate a Master Data Management (MDM) or Customer Data Integration (CDI) program. Data governance (which is needed along with an integration competency center (ICC)) often doesn’t get the commitment it should. I noted that...
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by Angela Guess In a new article, Francois Marais makes the business case for lean business intelligence. He writes, “In IT, the emphasis is always on cutting costs while maintaining responsiveness and quality of solutions. There is perhaps no more suitable approach than ‘lean thinking’ to help in this regard, especially in the area...
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by Angela Guess Jeffrey Rayport recently reported on the need for a code of ethical practices to govern the uses of Big Data. Rayport writes, “In this era of Big Data, there is little that cannot be tracked in our online lives—or even in our offline lives. Consider one new Silicon Valley venture, called...
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by Angela Guess CIT Group is looking for an Assistant Vice President of Enterprise Data Governance in Livingston, NJ. According to the job description, this position will “Assist with monitoring progress ensuring the completion of all tasks within established timelines. Partner with the respective operations and technology teams assigned to the projects, leading periodic...
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by Angela Guess Hovhannes Avoyan is working on a series of blogs regarding some of the best options for NoSQL solutions. In his first post, Avoyan focuses on Apache Cassandra: “Apache Cassandra - like so many other NoSQL tools – is an open-source distributed database system. It was originally created at Facebook in 2008...
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by Angela Guess A new article reports, “Real estate website Trulia is set to roll out a new feature that will allow users to view crime statistics for 50 metro areas in the US. The new feature, which is slated for launch in June, is a valuable exercise in large scale data processing. The...
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