Know Your Numbers: The Dollar-Driven Guide to Holiday Emails
Our commerce clients are deep in the throes of holiday season, and with their planning and activity has come an…
Why Variety Is the Unsolved Problem in Big Data
The term “big data” is thrown around rather loosely today. To apply more structure, Gartner classifies big data projects by…
Sizing Up Data For CRM: Big Doesn’t Mean Valuable Data
Unless you’ve been a castaway without wireless service for much of the past year, you couldn’t easily ignore all the…
CERN: A Case Study in “Big Science” Data Management
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) became a poster-child for organizing and processing enormous quantities of data during its…
Modernizing the Data Center: A Real Company Case Study
THE CHALLENGE Develop a personalized data center solution with a like-minded partner. THE CHALLENGE Develop a personalized data center solution…
Automation and the Danger of Lost Knowledge
In my previous post I pondered the quality of machine-generated data, cautioning that even though it overcomes some of the inherent errors…
Can You Predict Crowd Behavior? Big Data Can
The 2012 elections were a hotbed of predictions, but one man’s election forecast stood out from the rest both in…
CEOs and Executives Need Business Planning Software
Business planning is a new software category. These applications enable senior executives to integrate all the plans of business units…
What If We Could Feel the Big Data Sugar Rush Faster?
The Halloween candy aisle has me thinking about all the tricks and treats that exist in the quest drive meaningful…
A Reality Gap Exists with Big Data Initiatives [INFOGRAPHIC]
A new study by TEK Systems, the latest in a large range of big data studies this year, reveals that…