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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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....
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