Is This the Biggest Big Data Company You Have Never Heard of?
In this post I take a look at another company that has put Big Data at the heart of its…
Top Big Data Challenges Revisited
We’ve now been wrestling with Enterprise Big Data for a few years. Here’s a summary of our progress so far.…
Were the Election Polls Marred by Poor Quality Data?
The UK’s general election took place last week, on Thursday 7 May, 2015. It was an election that had been…
In-Memory Analytic Databases Are so Last Century
In an article written last year by an industry analyst that I respect, IDC’s Carl Olofson, he gave the impression that in-memory…
First Look: IBM Decision Optimization Cloud
IBM’s advanced analytics portfolio contains its descriptive analytics, predictive analytics and prescriptive analytics products (everything from Cognos to SPSS to…
The Hadoop Honeymoon Is Over
Listen up Big Data playmates! The ubiquitous Big Data gurus, tied up in their regular chores of astroturfing mega-volumes, velocities…
Cloud ROI: Business and Financial Gains
A significant benefit of moving resources to the cloud and cloud ROI is the resulting gains in collaboration and efficiency. Any…
NICE Systems Engages Analytics to Optimize Customer Experience
NICE Systems is an established vendor of workforce optimization products that has long included analytics in its portfolio. Its latest release…
On Not Knowing Sentiment Analysis
To begin at the beginning, which is good place to start, I read the piece on Wikipedia, and this was…
The 4 Types of Data Analytics [VIDEO]
(A vlog post on data analytics) (A vlog post on data analytics)This vlog piece was filmed in Penang, Malaysia and…