Indispensable Consumer Relationships at Heart of P&G Strategy
You don’t maintain a leadership position without continually out-innovating your competition. For Procter & Gamble, this means embracing all things…
Incorporating MapReduce in the Analytics Environment
A few weeks ago, I attended the Hadoop World show in New York to hear first-hand how organizations are making…
SAP Spends Big on SuccessFactors for Cloud Computing and Talent Management
In a move to invigorate adoption of its cloud computing and talent management applications, SAP has announced its intent to acquire SuccessFactors…
Government Big Data Award Nominee: GCE Federal
The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons…
Hadoop is an Open Source Revolution: Federal Computer Week Interview
Open source software has historically had a hard time competing with its big budget proprietary rivals but, as Bob Gourley…
Big Data Tip For The New Project Manager: Starting With Apache Hadoop
Do you have a program or project that is evaluating “big data” approaches to the solution. You are not alone.
Making Hadoop Accessible to End Users
Why the Hoopla over Hadoop?Hadoop in nine easy-to-understand facts.
Integrated Data Among Top Challenges P&G, Kraft and Others Face in Tapping Gartner’s “The Power of Me”
At first glance, the title of a Gartner research paper released a few days ago can be misleading.
Microsoft Focuses Big Data Efforts on Hadoop
Microsoft has shown once again that it can act decisively and smartly improve its offerings in doing so. It has…
Habits of Innovation
Despite BI's advances, companies continue to struggle with responding quickly to a continuously evolving information landscape and the need for…
