Big Data in the Sports Industry
Imagine the amount of data that could be collected and used for personal improvement if every professional athlete wore a…
How Marketing Can Be Better Automated With Big Data
Marketing automation is the next big thing. In mid-2013, Salesforce announced the acquisition of ExactTarget which owns Pardot, the marketing…
Big Data and Hadoop Development 2016
What is Big Data? Let’s demystify this concept. Simply put, Big Data can be defined as the compilation of huge…
4 Steps for SAP Shops to Comply with New IFRS 15 Revenue Rules
Large SAP environments are like Rubik’s Cubes— change one square, and the cascading effects are huge because the parts all…
Could Cloud Based Systems Save the World?
Big data needs big resources. Big resources have big costs - and not just financially.As technologies improve and the Earth…
Is Big Data Winning or Losing?
Big data is now used everywhere. AT&T has a database of 312 terabytes, the NSA use 30 million gigabytes a…
A Look at SparkSQL
If you’ve been reading about Apache Spark, you might be worried about whether you have to relearn all of your…
How Is Mobile Technology Impacting the Food and Beverage Supply Chain?
Mobile technology is positively affecting businesses across the globe, allowing for real-time data transmission, instant collaboration, and the ability to…
From Master Data to Master Graph
CRM and customer Master Data Management (MDM) applications only enable partial business insights. That’s right, and it makes no difference…
Hadoop and Spark: Better Together
The various online reports about the end of Hadoop as a big data framework bring to mind Mark Twain’s notable…