A Case for Digital Transformation in the Pharmaceuticals Industry
While pharmaceuticals has traditionally been a very lucrative industry marked by blockbuster drugs and astronomical markups in retail prices, it…
Banking on Hadoop: 7 Use Cases for Hadoop in Finance
Hadoop is present in nearly every vertical today that is leveraging big data in order to analyze information and gain…
How Data and Analytics Can Help the Developing World
While commentators routinely discuss the opportunities for the United States and many other developed countries to use data and analytics…
5 Considerations to Make Before Choosing a Web Hosting Company
Would you build a giant skyscraper on a foundation meant for a small home? Of course not, and neither should…
Using Data to Build a More Effective Content Strategy
If you’re familiar with online marketing, you’ve undoubtedly heard the expression “content is king.” Establishing an active business blog, social…
FBI Next in Line for Cloud Utilization?
Flickr The Federal Bureau of Investigations’ Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division in West Virginia, is exploring new cloud environments that contain…
Data and Dating: How Agencies are Using Big Data to Find the Perfect Match
The search for love has never been an easy one. For many people, the dating scene is rife with frustrating…
IBM & SoftLayer One-Year Later: Leader in Data Centers, Cloud and Big Data
Almost exactly one year ago today, IBM acquired the cloud company (SoftLayer) and ever since has become one of the…
Sears Became a Real-Time Digital Enterprise Due to Big Data
Sears is a large retailer from the US that is a true Big Data pioneer for quite some years already.…
The White House Recently Completed a Study on Big Data Privacy: Do You Care?
“Big Brother?! Ha! I’m not afraid of what the government knows about me. I’m more afraid of the internet and…