Year: 2012

Hortonworks Leads a Fast and Growing Herd of Hadoop

Hadoop, the big-data technology, has transformed businesses’ ability to cost-effectively store and…

Mark Smith
6 Min Read

Microsoft Buys Enterprise Social Network Vendor Yammer for $1.2B

The much anticipated and highly rumored announcement finally hit the wires today.…

mfauscette
3 Min Read

‘Crack the cloud management nut and a cascade of benefits awaits’

“Crack nut and a cascade of benefits awaits…”That’s the call from Jason…

JoeMcKendrick
3 Min Read

IBM Advances Predictive Analytics for Decision Management

At its Business Analytics Analyst Summit (Twitter: #IBMBAS12) this week, IBM unveiled…

Mark Smith
6 Min Read

Analytics Meets the Job Board with Bright.com

There’s a new job board in town and it’s using data science…

Food Data : The next target of Massive Analytics

It has been a very busy period since my last post but…

ThemosKalafatis
4 Min Read

How Individual Learning Styles Improve the User Experience

Every website has a certain purpose, be it to inform people, create…

pveugen
10 Min Read

Teleportd: Big Data Meets Social to Detect Photo-Worthy Events

This week’s LeWeb London conference gave me the opportunity to catch up…

Timo Elliott
5 Min Read

3 Tips for a Successful BI Implementation

Rolling out a new business intelligence implementation involves a lot of planning…

David Cason
3 Min Read

10 Trends Shaping Big Data in Financial Services

The world is flush with news around the concept of big data…