A Visualization of the World’s Largest Data Breaches [INFOGRAPHIC]
The people from Information is Beautiful have built a stunning visualization of the world’s biggest data breaches in the past decade,…
Keep Off My Big Data
Big Data is exciting stuff. It’s a big deal that we can collect such a broad range of information about…
HIPAA Violations Cost Health Insurer $1.7 Million: Lessons Learned
Reuters reports that WellPoint, Inc., the second largest U.S. health insurer, has reached a $1.7 million settlement with the Dept.…
Testing the San Francisco Open Data Initiative [VIDEO]
San Francisco’s Open Data Initiative allows the government of San Francisco to share open data with its citizens, who can…
Tag, Anyone?
The nature of data is changing. At the moment organizations gather data from many different sources including loyalty cards, machine…
Is the Purpose of Analytics Just to Turn a Buck?
Ask just about any company why they are jumpstarting an analytics program and you’ll undoubtedly hear phrases like “We…
Hadoop Summit and Hortonworks Promise to Make Big Data More Engaging
Hadoop Summit is the biggest event on the West Coast centered on Hadoop, the open source technology for large-scale data…
Salesforce.com Is Full of Surprises
Anyone who follows Salesforce.com is used to surprises, but over the last couple of months the company has come up…
Cloud-Based BI for On-Premise Data
The title of this article is no oxymoron. Why should cloud-based Business Intelligence (Cloud BI) solutions be limited to cloud-based…
BI Democratization Could Mean Big Value
The many trends shaping the business intelligence world are all meant to accomplish the same general end: Employees want to make…
