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Beyond Hadoop - Completing the Big Data Picture
Unified information access (UIA) provides new insights and a complete view of a business that other approaches can’t mach. UIA unifies structured data and unstructured content – replacing fragmented silos with the ability to index, join and present all enterprise information, complementing and extending existing IT investments.[read more]
Audio Archive: The Cutting Edge of Big Data Monetization
The Cutting Edge of Big Data Monetization Sponsored by ... Big Data carries many definitions, but most agree that it refers to the increased amount of data available to businesses through unstructured channels like social media. Businesses are challenged in their attempts to productively analyze this data, but most are...[read more]
Audio Archive: Delivering Value Through Business Analytics
Delivering Value Through Business Analytics: How People, Process and Technology Work Together Listen to analytics thought-leader Thomas Davenport and leading industry experts discuss how—and why—organizations like yours use business analytics to empower more timely and precise decisions by bringing new insights into daily operations....[read more]
Webinar: Using the Voice of the Customer to Predict Your Customer Behavior
Join Attensity’s Director of Advanced Analytics, Manya Mayes, to learn how you can harness the power of text analytics to not only understand the voice of your customer — but to predict what your customer is going to do next.[read more]
Audio Archive: Trendspotting for Growth
As companies using analytics know, data is key to developing their best customers by supporting relevant and compelling product and service offers. Adopting analytics to identify growth has the potential to support superior customer sales, service, and general operations. Data analytics can provide insight into meaningful customer...[read more]
Questions about analytics?
If you're wondering how to harness the power of the numerati in your own enterprise, consider participating in the webinar my colleagues at SmartDataCollective are holding on July 15. It's called Trendspotting for Growth, and it features analytics experts from SAS, Warner Home Videos, and Teradata, among others. *** I thought I'd pay...[read more]
Audio Archive: Finding Value in Unstructured Social Data
About the Panel: Stephen Baker, author of The Numerati, is a journalist based in the the New York area. He spent 20 years writing for Businessweek, prior to which he was a reporter for the El Paso Herald-Post and the Daily Journal. While at BusinessWeek, Baker wrote cover stories on blogs, the data analysis of social networks, and...[read more]
Audio Archive: Risks and Rewards of Big Data in the Cloud
Featuring: Michael Fauscette is IDC Group Vice President, Software Business Solutions, overseeing IDC's research and consulting in ERP, SCM, CRM, and PLM Applications, small and medium business applications, partner and alliance ecosystems, open source, software vendor business models (SaaS) and software pricing and licensing. Mr....[read more]
Audio Archive: Putting Customer Value to Work
Download the slides in PDFFeaturing: James Taylor Korhan Yunak Anne Milley Mike Rote CEO of Decision Management Solutions Global CRM Business Analyst at Vodafone Group Senior Director of technology product marketing for SAS Director of the Teradata/SAS Center of Excellence[read more]
Hear it Now! Live Q&A on How to Boost Service, Cut Costs and Still Deliver Great Customer Experiences
Originally Aired 11 a.m. PST / 2 p.m. EST April 16, 2009 How do you boost service, cut costs and still deliver great customer experiences - even in a down economy? That's the challenging topic our panel of experts tackled recently in our first SmartData Collective webinar. The current economy is having a huge impact on how businesses...[read more]
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“Data variety is indeed both a challenge and an opportunity. I work for Gnip and we provide social data from a variety of sources and are constantly talking about what we call The Social Cocktail. We normalize the streams to help businesses overcome some of the challenges presented in this articles The Curse and Challenge of Data Variety section. Our customers are using multiple data sources ...”
“Interesting post... I've been an admirer of Rick's for years and had no idea that this is what he is interested in right now. Good for SAP for having him at SAPPHIRE.”