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by Angela Guess Michael Koploy of Software Advice recently shared a great case study regarding the Big Data challenges encountered by Cheezburger, the company behind I Can Has Cheezburger and FAIL Blog. Koploy writes, “While everyone argues about how to concretely define Big Data and what businesses should do about their Big Data problems,...
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by Angela Guess A new article out of the company reports, “International Business Machines Corp. said Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of the software portfolio of Star Analytics, Inc., a privately held business analytics company headquartered in Redwood City, California. Financial terms were not disclosed. The combination of IBM and Star Analytics’ software will further advance...
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by Angela Guess Derek Klobucher of Forbes reports, “Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer used data analytics to justify her company’s ban last week on telecommuting, according to Business Insider. It seems Mayer doesn’t do much without lots of data backing her up. In this case, Mayer consulted logs from Yahoo!’s Virtual Private Network (VPN), which employees use to...
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by Angela Guess Tom Cheredar of Venture Beat reports, “Kickboard, a web-based school analytics platform, has closed a $2 million funding deal, the startup announced today. Kickboard allows teachers to collect, analyze, and share student information in one centralized place. This eliminates a lot of the switching between other document software, databases, and test...
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by Angela Guess Derek Klobucher of Forbes reports, “Big Data can be a life saver, figuratively and literally. We’ve all heard about how Big Data can save time and money, but 87 percent of federal IT officials think that real-time Big Data could save a significant number of lives each year. But changes in...
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by Angela Guess Tyler Hamilton of The Energy Collective reports, “President Barack Obama set a new goal for America during his State of the Union address this week. He challenged states and municipalities, homeowners and businesses, to do more with less when it comes to energy consumption. ‘Let’s cut in half the energy wasted...
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by Angela Guess Ravi Shankar, VP of Product Marketing at Informatica recently wrote an article for Forbes on why retailers need to focus on mastering customer data. He writes, “Retailers today are looking for ways to offset increasing competition, pricing pressure and operating costs. As always, the focus is on the customer. According to the...
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by Angela Guess Jack Vaughan of Tech Target recently posed the question, “Will cloud computing application become the golden record for customer data?” He states, “It has long been thought that the place to find the most accurate information about customers is in a company’s enterprise resource planning system. But some within the IT industry...
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by Angela Guess Steve Jones of Dow Jones Newswires reports, “As the blizzard dubbed ‘Nemo’ by The Weather Channel dumped record amounts of snow on the Northeast, the operator at the television network was dealing with a blizzard of another sort: data. Daily, 20 terabytes of temperature readings, wind speeds, barometric pressure, satellite images...
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by Angela Guess TMA Resources reports, “Recent research has demonstrated that marketing budgets have increased, with more organizations focusing on better data management practices and customer relationship management (CRM) analytics for personalized strategies. A study conducted by Aberdeen revealed that this year, the average marketing executive’s budget has risen by 6.3 percent in comparison to last...
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