Welcome to Magazine Premium

You can change this text in the options panel in the admin

There are tons of ways to configure Magazine Premium... The possibilities are endless!

Member Login
Lost your password?
Not a member yet? Sign Up!

Analytics

Oversight Systems Chosen for DATA Demonstration Day with the House Committee on Oversight

0
May 16, 2013
Oversight Systems Chosen for DATA Demonstration Day with the House Committee on Oversight

by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports that, “Oversight Systems will demonstrate its operational analysis software platform which helps businesses and government agencies evolve from exploring big data to quickly generating and delivering operational insights for greater business success, at the DATA (Digital Accountability and Transparency Act) Demonstration Day Hosted by the House...
Read More »

Microsoft’s Struggles with Big Data, BI

0
May 15, 2013
Microsoft’s Struggles with Big Data, BI

by Angela Guess Tony Cosentino of Information Management writes, “Microsoft has been steadily pouring money into big data and business intelligence. The company of course owns the most widely used analytical tool in the world, Microsoft Excel, which our benchmark research into Spreadsheets in the Enterprise shows is not going away soon. User resistance (cited by...
Read More »

Diving into Marketing Data

0
May 10, 2013
Diving into Marketing Data

by Angela Guess David Booth of MarketingDaily recently wrote, “IBM’s recent study, ‘Marketing Science: From descriptive to prescriptive’ quantified what most marketers intuitively know: while virtually everyone wants to use data to drive marketing decisions, most marketers (82 percent) still rely largely on hunches and experience. Although experience should never be understated in the...
Read More »

Swipely Brings Big Data Insight to Small Business

0
May 9, 2013
Swipely Brings Big Data Insight to Small Business

by Angela Guess Erin Carlyle of Forbes reports, “Angus Davis is kicking off Swipely ‘s weekly management meeting, and he wants to hear just one thing: Quick wins. ‘Matt?’ Davis gestures at the startup’s VP of sales, Matt Oley, who doesn’t miss a beat. The sales team is on track to meet this month’s goal, Oley...
Read More »

Four in Ten Marketing Executives Unprepared to Meet Objectives

0
April 30, 2013
Four in Ten Marketing Executives Unprepared to Meet Objectives

by Angela Guess According to a new article out of Accenture, “Four in 10 top marketing executives say they are not well prepared to meet their objectives, citing a lack of funding and inefficient business practices as the main impediments to improved performance, according to global research by Accenture. The research also reveals a...
Read More »

Analytics Heads to Grad School at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

0
April 25, 2013
Analytics Heads to Grad School at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

by Angela Guess A new article out of RPI states, “To prepare students and career professionals for the expanding scope of careers requiring Big Data and analytics skills, IBM and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are combining forces to offer a new, one-year Lally School of Management and Technology graduate degree program in fall 2013: the...
Read More »

YarcData Announces Winners of $100K Graph Analytics Challenge

0
April 15, 2013
YarcData Announces Winners of $100K Graph Analytics Challenge

by Angela Guess YarcData has announced the winners of their Graph Analytics Challenge. The challenge showcases “the increasing applicability and adoption of graph analytics in discovering unknown relationships in Big Data. Submissions included an innovative range of applications across a broad variety of sectors including crime prediction, social science, life science and sports performance....
Read More »

APIs Setting the Pace for Big Data?

0
April 5, 2013
APIs Setting the Pace for Big Data?

by Angela Guess Michael Vizard of Programmable Web recently opined that APIs are starting to set the Big Data pace. He writes, “On the one hand Big Data is supposed to be one of the best things to happen to IT since the invention of the database. After all, managing massive amounts of data...
Read More »

Bringing Big Data to the HR Department

0
April 5, 2013
Bringing Big Data to the HR Department

by Angela Guess The Economist recently published an article about Big Data and hiring practices: “The problem with human-resource managers is that they are human. They have biases; they make mistakes. But with better tools, they can make better hiring decisions, say advocates of ‘big data’. Software that crunches piles of information can spot...
Read More »

Infographic: Accenture Study Finds Analytics are Being Adopted, Not Capitalized On

0
April 4, 2013
Infographic: Accenture Study Finds Analytics are Being Adopted, Not Capitalized On

by Angela Guess A recent article out of Accenture Research finds: “Organizations are progressing in the adoption of analytics for decision making, according to new research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN). However, there is still a prevalent disconnect between analytics capabilities organizations have built and how successfully they put them to use for business decision-making....
Read More »

FOLLOW US!

Friend me on FacebookFollow me on TwitterJoin my group on LinkedInWatch me on YouTubeRSS Feed

User Login

Lost Password

 

 

Latest Tweets

Twitter