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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 According to a new article out of the company, “Precog, the leading vendor for NoSQL analytics, today announced the general availability of its analytics platform for non-relational data. The announcement comes approximately 6 months after Precog launched its public beta. With the GA release, Precog has formalized pricing for its cloud...
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by Angela Guess Saswato Das of SAP recently wrote for Forbes, “Are you ready for Big Data at the big screen? It’s true. Hollywood has discovered Big Data’s talents to determine how to distribute and promote movies. Advertisements viewers see before a movie is screened, and how that movie will be distributed later through...
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by Angela Guess Kurt Bilafer of Forbes recently discussed Rebrickable, a website for Lego enthusiasts: “Users input Lego set IDs and their current inventory of Lego pieces and voila! – an analytics engine crunches the data and makes recommendations on new Lego creations they can build. This means a second life for old, forgotten...
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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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by Angela Guess Merrill Douglas of Government Technology reports, “Cheaper storage and more powerful analytic tools are making big data an increasingly viable concept for the public sector. Some police departments, for example, already mine high-volume, high-variety, high-velocity data sources to support predictive policing. Public officials also hope to deploy big data in public...
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by Angela Guess A recent article out of Talend reports, “Talend, the global integration software leader, and Caserta Concepts, a consulting and technology services firm specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence and big data analytics, today announced a partnership to help Caserta build highly scalable big data analytics solutions for their clients. ‘At Caserta...
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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 Ana Andreescu of Smart Data Collective reports, “Remember the old saying, ‘You are what you eat’? Big data is changing that proposition to ‘You analyze what you eat.’ From food safety to trends in restaurant dishes, data analysis is changing the way we manufacture food, track our diets and serve our...
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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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