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Defining Data Governance Dashboards

May 10, 2012 by Dat Mai
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Michael Stiffler

If we truly understand why we are creating a data governance dashboard and the importance of the dashboards to our organization, then we can better prepare ourselves for all the necessary tasks. We need to have solid answers to the “why” question before embarking on this initiative. [read more]

Behind Latest Systems Integration Boom: Cloud, Virtualization and Government

May 10, 2012 by Joe McKendrick
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The cloud is disrupting the systems integration market big time, a new study confirms. Will the systems integration industry as we know it look very different in a few years, as companies seek applications and services in bite-sized chunks off the cloud, versus big-budget engagements? [read more]

IBM Makes Big Data Deal for Vivisimo and Supports Cloudera Hadoop

April 27, 2012 by Mark Smith
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The Vivisimo acquisition is important for IBM because it has not had a substantive search technology for its information management portfolio that can operate across all types of information. Competitively this is critical; the demand for better search has led Oracle to expand its efforts with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search and to acquire Endeca for more depth on structured data. [read more]

Three Ways HR Analytics Can Boost the Bottom Line

April 25, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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Tim Ringo, a partner in London-based Maxxim Consulting, notes in a recent blog post for Harvard Business Review that many corporations are still using hunches or gut feelings instead of data analytics to make the tough calls related to HR. [read more]

Not Only SQL, Not Only Big Data

April 25, 2012 by Barry Devlin
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While I am a long-time supporter of the need for and value of good and extensive information in business, my experience of the purposes for which such information is used and the extent to which decision making benefits is less sanguine. In general business, business intelligence is used almost exclusively in support of a narrowly-focused drive for bottom-line profit. At the risk of being labeled a Communist, I remain unconvinced that this is always a good thing. [read more]

Data Design Principles

April 23, 2012 by Justin Hay
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Taking a practical approach to developing a well-formed enterprise data warehouse – and by that, I mean one that is accurate, efficient and productive – involves basing it on sound design principles. [read more]

How a Free Burrito Turned into A $55 Parking Ticket and a Great Customer Experience

April 23, 2012 by Brent Leary
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The bottom line in the stories and other information Matt shared is that it’s important to keep up with the social customer – who’s adopting and adapting to technology in an continuously quickening pace. And in order to do that, you have to be committed to this philosophy of over-servicing them….by all means (and channels) necessary. [read more]

Big Data Q&A for the Data Protection Law and Policy Newsletter

April 19, 2012 by Jeff Jonas
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I have been given permission to re-publish an interview I did with the Data Protection & Law Policy newsletter. Also to appear in the e-Finance and Payments Law & Policy newsletter. May be of interest to some of my readers. [read more]

Listening In: Big Ideas About Big Data

April 11, 2012 by Brett Stupakevich
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National Public Radio is not the most obvious place for a deep dive on “The New World of Massive Data Mining,” so it may have surprised listeners when the April 2 edition of Diane Rehm’s popular NPR discussion program devoted an hour to just that topic. But the wide-ranging conversation covered some fascinating territory, and attracted thoughtful questions from the audience. [read more]

Practical Sentiment Analysis and Lies

April 10, 2012 by Tom Anderson
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Q&A with Prof. Bing Liu ahead of the Sentiment Analysis Symposium and Pre Symposium Tutorial False website reviews are an interesting application, and one that I’ve been keeping my eye on. I noticed the New York Times recently covered some of your work in this area. This type of text analytics research seems to be much more difficult than most people think. [read more]

Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data From Industry and Academia Panel

April 5, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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After government executives announced 0ver $200 million in Big Data initiatives last week, a panel of thought leaders from industry and academia moderated by New York Times technology and innovation reporter Steve Lohr discussed the current state and exciting future of Big Data research. [read more]

Facebook’s Response to Yahoo’s Patent Lawsuit

April 4, 2012 by Chris Dixon
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Countersuing gives Facebook the best chance of fending off Yahoo’s lawsuit – and therefore not rewarding patent lawsuits. And signaling they are only doing so in response to Yahoo (hence might drop the suit if Yahoo does) keeps them on the right side of innovation. [read more]

Big Data Showcase: Advanced Analytics

March 30, 2012 by Alex Olesker
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Carahsoft’s Government Big Data Forum also had two showcases to highlight the actual solutions available for dealing with massive amounts of complex data and getting the most out of it for your agency or enterprise. [read more]

A Look at Today’s White House Big Data Event

March 29, 2012 by Ryan Kamauff
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The commitment to big data from the executive branch is immensely important, and should foster increased attention to big data capabilities throughout government. We have long been a proponent of applying big data solutions to government problems, and welcome this progress. [read more]

Bigger Data, Better Intelligence for Government

March 28, 2012 by David Smith
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Tomorrow (at 2PM Eastern on Thursday), the White House White House Office of Science and Technology Policy will host a 90-minute forum on Challenges and Opportunities in Big Data. You can watch the event live... [read more]

Social Government?

March 27, 2012 by Michael Fauscette
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I have to say, particularly around the use of social tools, that I was surprised how far some agencies have advanced. There's still a long way to go of course, but I did see some novel and creative use cases during the day. [read more]