Board of Directors’ Dashboards – Navigation or naiveté?
Have you ever wondered about how well boards of directors do their job? I have. And I do not have…
Report from the 2012 Hadoop Summit
Abstract: One of the hottest technology trends in 2012 is Big Data Analytics. Nowhere was that more evident than at…
Three Use Cases for Splunk
The greatest source of potential use cases for technology is the user community. This is a great reason to attend…
Hadoop pushes, pulls Big Data analytics into mainstream (Part Two)
Did you miss out? It’s ok. We’ll fill you in. Part one of this two-part exploration of Hadoop’s affect on…
Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop
Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and process large volumes of data for analysis. Numerous…
Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B
The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today. One of the biggest questions was where would…
IBM Advances Predictive Analytics for Decision Management
At its Business Analytics Analyst Summit (Twitter: #IBMBAS12) this week, IBM unveiled its new release of analytics software for decision management.…
Analytics Meets the Job Board with Bright.com
There’s a new job board in town and it’s using data science to better connect people looking for jobs with…
Food Data : The next target of Massive Analytics
It has been a very busy period since my last post but also a very interesting one. At the Social…
10 Trends Shaping Big Data in Financial Services
The world is flush with news around the concept of big data – the influx of data from the Internet, mobile…