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by Glenn J. Thomas With the passing of Super Bowl XLVI into the record books (Congratulations to the New York Giants in their win over the New England Patriots, 21-17) and discussions about the ads limited since most have been leaked on the web over the past few weeks, we enter a period of...
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by Angela Guess A recent interview with Alyona Medelyan and Anna Divoli of Pingar takes a look at why unstructured data is worth the effort it takes to analyze it. Divoli stated, “Every single organization in every vertical deals with unstructured data. Tons of text is produced daily — emails, reports, proposals, patents, literature,...
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by Angela Guess Wolfram Alpha is doing their part to democratize data. Tomorrow the company is releasing “a new, Pro option to its already existing services. Priced at a very reasonable $4.99 a month ($2.99 for students), the new services includes the ability to use images, files, and even your own data as inputs...
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by Angela Guess IBM has named Profitero the Global Entrepreneur of the Year and the winner of its SmartCamp competition: “Profitero analyzes competitor pricing data, offering retailers new levels of insight to help them maximize profits by adjusting pricing and merchandising strategies. IBM is working with entrepreneurs around the world to uncover and bring to...
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by Angela Guess A new article comments on the complexity of Big Data and the limited view that many companies still have regarding Big Data’s potential. It states, “More than structured information stored neatly in rows and columns, Big Data actually comes in complex, unstructured formats, everything from web sites, social media and email,...
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by Angela Guess The Super Bowl may be over, but the implications of IBM and USC’s recent study to determine the fan-favorite quarterback will reach well beyond yesterday’s event. A few days before the game, Kevin Nosbusch wrote, “The media and sports industries have been completely transformed by technology. Today, fans are not only...
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by Angela Guess A recent article reports, “CA Technologies made a trio of releases Wednesday that puts its flagship data modeling solution in the hands of more business users and behind a Microsoft cloud-based database. CA ERwin Data Modeler for SQL Azure enables integration and management in Microsoft’s cloud environment. There, the data modeler...
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by Angela Guess Jeff Stamen recently asked the question, which is better: Big Data or Right Data? He writes, “One look at all the IT headlines these days would suggest that Big Data is the most important data issue today. After all, with lots of computing power and better database storage techniques it is...
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by Charles Roe The NoSQL debate, or maybe more appropriately the “NoREL” debate, is not something new to the data management (DM) industry. It has certainly become a driving force over the past few years with the exponential growth and needs of big data, though within the inner sanctums of the field it has...
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by Angela Guess Forrester Research has released a new report entitled The Future of Data Security and Privacy: Embracing Big Data. According to an excerpt from the report, “In the never-ending race to stay ahead of the competition, companies are developing advanced capabilities to store, process, and analyze vast amounts of data from social networks, sensors,...
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