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How Big Data Can Help Retailers Optimize Mobile

Delivering a dynamic and engaging mobile experience is becoming essential to retailers, and big data marketing applications company BloomReach believes that its new big data application is the key.
By Thor OlavsrudJul, 15 2013
News

Microsoft Makes Data Mining Self-Service With BI for Office 365

Microsoft is attempting to break down the barriers to business intelligence with Power BI for Office 365, which is designed to let companies gain new insights by tapping both structured and unstructured and internal and external data.
By Thor OlavsrudJul, 8 2013
News Analysis

How Analytics Is Helping IT Vendors Sell Actual Solutions

For decades, IT vendors have offered small 's' solutions that were really bundles of hardware, software and services that they wanted to sell regardless of what customers actually needed. Now firms such as Dell, IBM and EMC are using analytics to help customers decide which products are best for their needs. Oracle, HP and others struggling with big 'S' solutions may get left behind.
By Rob EnderleJul, 3 2013
Feature

5 Secrets to Corporate Social Media Success

You don't need a big budget to be successful with social media, according to Walmart's director of social strategy. Here are five steps your business can follow to reap the benefits.
By Kristin BurnhamJul, 1 2013
News

Splunk Targets Hadoop (and Unstructured Data) With Hunk

The specialist in collecting, monitoring and analyzing big data generated by machines is now extending its capabilities to the universe of unstructured text data with Hunk, a tool that works in Hadoop.
By Thor OlavsrudJun, 26 2013
How-To

In-Memory Technology Speeds Up Data Analytics

Long the purview of financial firms looking for an edge as they make lightning-fast transactions, in-memory technology is starting to catch the attention of many firms that conduct real-time analysis.
By John MooreJun, 26 2013
News

RainStor Adds Enterprise-Grade Security, Search to Hadoop

The database specialist, which boasts data compression technology that can reduce storage footprint by up to 97 percent, upgrades its database with a host of enterprise-grade security features and search functions to help large enterprises put big data into production.
By Thor OlavsrudJun, 25 2013
News

Big Data Analytics Moves to the Cloud

With its new Joyent Manta Storage Service, Joyent—a high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics specialist—says it offers enterprises a cloud object store and data services platform for spinning up compute and analysis capabilities where data lives.
By Thor OlavsrudJun, 25 2013
News

Big Data Will Drive the Industrial Internet

While most big data headlines focus on sentiment analysis and other marketing activities, multinational conglomerate GE sees a future in which machine-to-machine communication and big data analytics spur a wave of innovation on par with the Industrial Revolution and the Internet Revolution.
By Thor OlavsrudJun, 21 2013
News Analysis

What's Next in IT: Intelligent Systems, Stressed-out Staffs

The future of IT will be systems that are intelligent enough to detect and solve problems without human interaction, CIO.com columnist Rob Enderle conjectures. This will be great for analytics but bad for security–and it may leave IT workers reaching for Valium.
By Rob EnderleJun, 21 2013
How-To

11 Ways to Make Healthcare IT Easier

The phrase 'don't boil the ocean' is often used to describe efforts to introduce IT to healthcare organizations. These 11 tips will help healthcare CIOs make incremental changes that improve business practices without panicking end users.
By Brian EastwoodJun, 20 2013
10 Hot Big Data Startups to Watch
Feature

10 Hot Big Data Startups to Watch

Big Data startups are building viable products that target real-world pain points, and most of these Big Data new ventures are well-funded with solid management teams. Here are 10 Big Data startups to watch.
By Jeff VanceJun, 12 2013
Feature

New York Turns to Big Data to Solve Big Tree Problem

Trees probably aren't the first thing you think of when someone mentions New York City, but the city has a lot of them. Pruning and maintaining them is a public safety issue, and determining how to prioritize that maintenance is no easy feat. With the help of a nonprofit organization called DataKind, the city's Parks department is leveraging big data analytics for the job.
By Thor OlavsrudJun, 4 2013
How-To

Healthcare's Accountable Care Organizations Face Daunting IT Task, Deadlines

Outlined in the Affordable Care Act, the ACO model aims to link hospitals, physician networks, acute care facilities and other organizations in an effort to provide more coordinated care that in turn reduces costs. But ACOs must address four key IT challenges before a strict government deadlines impose financial penalties.
By John MooreJun, 3 2013
News Analysis

Why Dell Has a Subtle, Secret Strategic Advantage

With PC sales lagging, Dell is changing its approach with customers. By asking a single question it is improving the company's relationships with its customers and their users. Competitors, take note.
By Rob EnderleMay, 31 2013
How-To

6 Practical Predictive Analytics Tools

Most analytics tools put data in an historical context. That's all well and good, but if what if you want to use past data to gauge future performance? That narrows your analytics options. These six tools will help you make practical use of your data in order to make business decisions.
By John BrandonMay, 30 2013
How-To

How Top CIOs Tackle Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Security

In an increasingly complex IT landscape, leading CIOs seek novel ways to use big data and cloud services to improve business processes. Keeping data secure remains a challenge, though, as does finding the right people to manage it all.
By Brian EastwoodMay, 29 2013
Opinion

Exploiting Big Data From the Heavens

The weather is good for more than just small talk, says Maryfran Johnson. It's a big business, with companies like The Weather Channel and AccuWeather selling data analytics to businesses like DHL and Sears, who use weather data to make timely decisions.
By Maryfran JohnsonMay, 28 2013
Tip

Should the CIO or the CMO Take the Lead on Big Data?

Someone must harness the power of real-time data flows. Instead of focusing on their differences and fighting for the same budgets, the CIO and CMO can come together at this critical juncture.
By Dion HinchcliffeMay, 28 2013
How-To

Meaningful Use, 3D Imaging Drive Health Data Storage Demand

Healthcare providers are under siege by massive amounts of data. This is forcing the industry to upgrade its aging storage infrastructures, architectures and systems. Where that data is being stored may come as a surprise.
By Allen BernardMay, 22 2013
How-To

5 Reasons to Move to Big Data (and 1 Reason Why It Won't Be Easy)

Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business–and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.
By Reda ChouffaniMay, 21 2013
How-To

ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool

The tried-and-true enterprise service bus–long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments–is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate applications. The secret to ESB's future success, some say, is a close tie to API management tools.
By John MooreMay, 15 2013
Feature

What Open Source Hadoop Coming to Windows Means to IT

Hadoop is nearly synonymous with the analysis of big data. The Hortonworks Data Platform on Windows is significant as it means that companies lacking Linux expertise will finally be able to benefit from the big data analysis platform, which has been out of the reach of Windows shops.
By Paul RubensMay, 13 2013
How-To

How Big Data Can Improve Marketing and Customer Service

Big data is poised to help marketers reach and engage customers and prospects in ways that businesses are only now starting to understand. Enterprises that don't embrace analytics may soon see embattled customers voting with their wallets.
By Allen BernardMay, 13 2013
Tip

Big Data Gold Isn't Always Where You Would Expect It

Many companies are focusing their big data initiatives in areas like sales, marketing, customer service and R&D, but other functions like logistics or finance may offer even greater ROI.
By Thor OlavsrudMay, 7 2013
Feature

Universities Closing Big Data Talent Gap But Need Real Data

Higher education is stepping up its efforts to teach big data analytics and business intelligence, but professors say they need businesses that depend on data to work with them to provide students with real data and real business problems to solve.
By Thor OlavsrudApr, 30 2013
How-To

How Genomic Research Could Improve Healthcare

The cost of mapping an individual genome is quickly dropping. The potential benefits for improving the care individual patients as well as entire populations are immense. So, too, are the obstacles to getting all stakeholders–healthcare providers, researchers, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and the patients themselves–to share what they've learned.
By Brian EastwoodApr, 29 2013
How-To

6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.
By Brian EastwoodApr, 23 2013
How-To

How a CIO Can Save an Incompetent CEO

When a bad CEO goes down, the CIO often goes down with him. The way to save yourself, and your company, is to invest in the analytics technology that gives the CEO the data necessary to make smart business decisions. It doesn't hurt that it also shows why the CIO is more valuable to the CEO than other C-level executives.
By Rob EnderleApr, 19 2013
How-To

Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.
By David TaberApr, 18 2013
Feature

4 Barriers Stand Between You and Big Data Insight

A majority of organizations believe that big data can give them a competitive advantage, but nearly 60 percent also believe that moving from data to insight is a major challenge. Consulting firm PwC says four barriers stand between your operation and data insights.
By Thor OlavsrudApr, 9 2013
News

HP Looks to Moonshot for Data Center of the Future

Seeking to reverse its flagging fortunes and build the foundational layer for the 'Internet of Things,' HP unveils a new class of software-defined server: the HP ProLiant Moonshot.
By Thor OlavsrudApr, 8 2013
Reasonable Doubter

How Big Data Can Quickly Become Big Garbage

The bigger the data the bigger the chance of mistakes or inaccuracies. In that vein, a large database used by retailers to screen people accused of stealing from employers is identifying innocent people and could result in major lawsuits, according to CIO.com blogger Constantine von Hoffman.
By Constantine von HoffmanApr, 4 2013
Feature

Workday Focuses on Its Post-IPO Future

Workday’s HR software-as-a-service tool wins praise for ease-of-use, but it remains to be seen whether the company's financial module will be adopted as quickly
By Chris KanaracusMar, 28 2013
Virtualization and Cloud Advisor

Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it–and he doesn't feel fine about it.
By Bernard GoldenMar, 26 2013
News Analysis

Big Data Success Is All in the Analysis

IT executives are starting to realize that there's little value in big data without robust analytics systems that can crunch the numbers and give key decision makers (read: their bosses) easy-to-digest information. With so few real solutions on the market, though, this is easier said than done.
By Rob EnderleMar, 22 2013
Feature

Data-Driven Companies Outperform Competitors Financially

Companies that rate themselves substantially ahead of their peers in their use of data are three times more likely to rate themselves as substantially ahead in financial performance, according to findings from the Economist Intelligence Unit.
By Thor OlavsrudMar, 19 2013
How-To

IT Strategy at Nationwide Children's Hospital Sticks to Basics

As Nationwide Children's Hospital opens a $430 million facility, the CIO for the Columbus, Ohio-based facility says her strategy focuses less on cutting-edge technology and more on improving the user experience for patients and physicians alike.
By Allen BernardMar, 11 2013
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