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by Angela Guess Andrew Brust of ZDnet recently opined, “Big data technology is exciting, innovative and genuinely powerful. It can absolutely take Enterprise analytics to the next level…but not yet. In Global 1000 organizations, and numerous smaller companies, skill sets and best-practices have been building for years around Business Intelligence (BI) technology and for decades around...
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by Angela Guess Bill Franks of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, “While it isn’t hard to argue the value of analyzing big data, it is intimidating to figure out what to do first. There are many unknowns when working with data that your organization has never used before — the streams of unstructured...
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by Angela Guess Scot Petersen of SearchCIO.com recently reported, “You know the topic of ‘big data’ management has really made it when The Harvard Business Review puts it on the cover of its latest issue. The informative article by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson is strategic in focus, as you would expect. One point in particular stood out:...
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by Angela Guess Rachel Emma Silverman of the Wall Street Journal reports, “Take it from the quant geeks—money can’t always buy workers’ love. Companies armed with an array of analytic tools are changing the way they pay and keep their workers. Some of these data-driven findings seem counterintuitive: Rotely paying workers more may not...
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by Angela Guess SecurityPark.net reports, “Research conducted by Varonis Systems Inc., the leading provider of comprehensive data governance software, has found that while 95% of organisations move data at least once per year, 65% of those surveyed admitted that they were not confident sensitive data was protected during a migration. The research, conducted in...
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by Angela Guess A new study out of Ricoh Europe shows that trends including Big Data have set off a shake-up of business priorities, the company reports: “The report, conducted on behalf of Ricoh by Coleman Parkes, entitled Ricoh Document Governance Index 2012, has been compiled from 1,075 interviews amongst C-level executives, directors and other employees...
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by Angela Guess Derrick Harris of GigaOM has shared five ideas to help companies make the most of Big Data. The first is, Hadoop isn’t for everything: “This should be common knowledge by now, but it bears repeating. Usama Fayyad, CTO at ChoozOn, pounded this point home when discussing how even Yahoo — Hadoop’s biggest...
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by Angela Guess Michael Schrage of the Harvard Business Review recently posed the question, “How much more profitable would your business be if you had, for free, access to 100 times more data about your customers? That’s the question I posed to the attendees of a recent big data workshop in London, all of...
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by Rod MacPherson Like many of you reading this post, I frequently find myself explaining to those around me what is implied by “data management” and why it is so important. While it’s easy for the layperson to understand data in the context of how it is entered into applications and how it is reported...
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by Angela Guess Susan Feinberg of ComputerWorld recently argued that discussions about Big Data should really be about Big Value Data, “data that’s truly mission-critical to the enterprise — rather than merely Big Data, the vast majority of which, according to a recent post by Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio, a provider of data management...
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