How 250 Milliseconds in Added Latency Can Ruin Online Sales This Holiday Season
In the midst of this holiday shopping season, business owners find themselves facing countless demands to increase profitability. Many businesses…
Has Your Data Quality Been Naughty or Nice?
Whether you celebrate it as a holy day, holiday, or just a day off, Christmas is one of the most anticipated…
Why Integrating Big Data Analytics with ERP Is the Future of Retail
There is a paradigm shift in the work force over the past couple of decades. Here are some interesting statistics:…
Time is Money: Milliseconds Matter [INFOGRAPHIC]
Did you know just a one second increase in Amazon's page load time could potientially cost the retail giant $1.6…
What Changes Will Big Data Analytics Bring?
It’s prediction time again. With all of the certainty that many outlets are predicting for 2014, we decided to look…
The Role of Standards in Predictive Analytics: A Series
I am working on a paper, for publication in early 2014, on the role of standards such as R, Hadoop…
Transforming HR Recruitment Practices with Big Data
Staffing the right candidate for a job opening is a daunting task. HR personnel typically spend anywhere between a few…
Companies Struggle to Engage with Customers Digitally
If you stop to compare communication preferences of the past to those of today, you can’t fail to notice some…
Perfect Information Doesn’t Equal Perfect Predictions
Many organizations attempt to achieve “data nirvana” by having 100% complete information for any given business decision. In the customer…
Music App Predicting the 2014 Top Artists with Big Data
15 million song identifications per day on the song finding app, Shazam, has provided the Big Data needed to predict…
