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Big Data Is More Valuable with Kapow
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Using information from applications and services across both the enterprise and Internet just got simpler with the release of Kapow Enterprise 9.2. I examined the technology at the Kapow WoW user conference, and spoke with a broad range of companies that use Kapow.[read more]
Big Data and the Wizard of Oz Syndrome
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The technology hype cycle, which reminds me of The Wizard of Oz, is a contributing factor in blunders made by businesses initiating their first Big Data projects. I’ll suggest, based on my experience helping clients, why enterprises make these blunders.[read more]
Big Data Analytics: The Four Pillars
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Big data analytics is being offered as the key to addressing a wide array of management and operational needs across business and IT. But the label “big data analytics” is used in a variety of ways, confusing people about its usefulness and value.[read more]
Information Optimization Is a Key Benefit of Big Data Investments
Without the right information, an organization cannot make the right decisions or take the right actions. Yet I see organizations today focusing on investments in big data because they believe it can effortlessly bring analysts insights. That premise is incorrect.[read more]
When Does Cloud ERP Start Saving Money?
Companies that implement a cloud ERP solution are yielding significant and tangible cost reductions. However, to imply that organizations will find implementations to be a joyous and happy time, simply because of “the cloud,” is to set expectations that are nearly impossible to meet.[read more]
Building a Private Cloud: A Strategic Guide
With the advent of cloud computing, companies are trapped with their desire to adopt the flexible and scalable model without relinquishing control over their data. As a result, private cloud is the current rage among corporate.[read more]
Three Healthcare IT Trends for 2013
This post takes a look at three key trends in healthcare information technology that Dell is keeping an eye on in 2013, including increased mobility for clinicians, more providers using the cloud, and better employment of Big Data.[read more]
What Every CEO Needs to Know About IT
It’s not necessary for a CEO of a company to be able to write Java code or master the intricacies of an ERP or sales compensation application. However, that CEO must master the basics of IT just as he must understand basic corporate finance, the production process and – at least at a high level – the technologies that support that process.[read more]
The Big Data Meme: 5 Scenarios for IT
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What will IT do with big data? Lead, follow, or get out of the way? Here are a few scenarios for the impact of big data on IT -- or what could be IT’s impact on big data.[read more]
Many business leaders see IT as 'commodity': survey
A majority of business leaders believe their information technology functions are on the verge of a major, impending disruption, and 43% say their company will increasingly use IT “as a commodity service that is bought as and when needed.”[read more]
How Analytics Can Propel IT to be the New ‘It’ Group
Consider a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers that notes that business analytics can mean that the “IT organization can become the go-to group, and the CIO can become the true information leader,”[read more]
Big Data Will Make IT the New Intel Inside
It well may be that big data—the organizational skill of using data as the key driver of performance—will make the IT function the new Intel Inside, the most strategic component of any organization.[read more]
The Role of IT in Business Discovery: Part 4
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In this, the final part of the series examining the role of IT in Business Discovery, I highlight how IT professionals extract great value themselves in using QlikView for their own Business Discovery purposes.Part 4: Business Discovery for IT: Making sense of all those log filesIn addition to being the central element in supporting...[read more]
'Society is Making Our IT Decisions for Us Now'
Cloud computing represents a tectonic shift for business technology and the people who run it. I recently had the chance to chat with David Nichols, principal and Americas CIO services leader for Ernst & Young IT Advisory Services, about the impact of cloud, shared services, and business-IT alignment in this new era.[read more]
A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors: The flying robot video you absolutely must watch
As a technologist I would like to remind you all that every future use case for incredibly capable systems like this will involve IT with moving parts, and all IT with moving parts requires IT guys to fix them when they break. So guess what CIOs, increasingly you are going to be the person that is turned to for robot repair.[read more]
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