CEOs: Hold Your Team Accountable for Data Analysis
Maybe you already know the story of Ron Johnson and J.C. Penney. Johnson, the retail superstar behind the Apple store…
Hadoop Toolbox: When to Use What
Eight years ago not even Doug Cutting would have thought that the tool which he's naming after his kid's soft toy would…
PayPal Winning the Mobile Payments and Mobile Data Race
PayPal is leading consumers and merchants into a ‘digital wallet’ universe and extending their lead with announcing partnerships with NCR…
Network and Application Performance in Cloud
The word “network” is thrown around by some people without proper regard for what’s involved when cloud computing/technology is brought…
Two Wrongs Don’t Make an Insight
What keeps IT guys up at night? All that bad data their bosses are using to run the business.In case…
Attensity Uses Social Media Technology for Smarter Customer Engagement
When I last wrote about Attensity I classified it as a “pure play” text analytics vendor, but the latest release of its…
What the Launch of Social.com Shows Us
Yesterday Salesforce announced the launch of Social.com – a social advertising solution that brings the power of Radian6 (R6) and…
Valuable Big Data Insights via Nike+ Gamification Platform
Nike turned the most uncomplicated sport in the world, running, into a data-driven social sport that gives users access to…
The Secret BI / Big Data Playbook
Emerging Technologies: Cloud, Mobile, Business Intelligence (BI) and Big Data are changing the way we do business for the better.…
Why You Need an In-Memory Action Plan
This is a third post of a series based on a SAP-sponsored breakfast meeting organized in Sydney earlier this year…
