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This CEO Relies on IT for Innovation
For ARI CEO Carl Ortell, real-time information delivery is key to strong relationships with customers and employees.How-To
IT Hiring Manager Seeks a Perfect Fit
This CIO wants IT employees who are dedicated to the company’s mission of using IT to fight healthcare fraud and waste.How-To
Bacardi Focuses IT on Selling More Spirits
The CIO of the largest privately held spirits company in the world stays close to customers and recently deployed an iPad app that explains the rich history of its brands.How-To
6 Google Analytics Tips for Online Marketers and Small Business Owners
Google Analytics lets organizations of all shapes and sizes measure the performance of their websites. There's a lot of data in there–and even more that you can do with that data once you've extracted it. These tips will help you get started with Google Analytics.News
12 Big Data Trends Changing the Face of Business
Big data is slowly but surely changing the way companies do business. Here's a look at 12 trends shaping big data and the future of business.How-To
Big Data ROI Will Take Time, Clear Goals and Talent
The big data market is expected, by one estimate, to grow more than 30 percent annually until the end of the decade. But more than half of big data projects fail–and even those that do succeed can fall apart if the findings aren't applied to operational efficiencies. Ron Bodkin, CEO of Think Big Analytics, offers advice to help you prevent your business from becoming just another statistic.Feature
10 Top Big Data Startups to Watch–Final Rankings
The votes are in for CIO.com's 10 hottest big data startups to watch. Here are the final rankings based on your voting as well as a variety of other criteria such as funding and company leadership.News
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.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.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.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.Managing Innovation & Disruptive Technology
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Teradata Portfolio for Hadoop Looks to Ease Big Data Deployments
Working with partner Hortonworks, Teradata aims to reduce the pain of implementing big data solutions with a host of appliances, customer support and consulting services for Apache Hadoop.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.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.Feature
8 Ways Business Intelligence Software Improves the Bottom Line
Business intelligence experts and IT executives share their tips on how BI software can improve your bottom line and make your organization more efficient.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.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.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.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.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.News
Federal Government Wrestles With Big Data and Sequestration
The federal government may be able to save as much as $500 billion via big data initiatives, if those projects can weather the effects of the budget sequestration.
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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.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.News
Big Data Surge From Federal Agencies Will Drive Health IT
Department of Health and Human Services unleashes new structured data sets as it encourages the developer community to build new health IT applications to improve patient care.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.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.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.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.CEO Letter
The Industrial Internet: The Next Great Economic Revolution
IDG Enterprise’s CEO spells out the future of big data, mobility and the impact of 50 billion connected devices by 2020.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.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.Feature
How to Profit From the Ultimate Big Data Source: The Weather
By analyzing a wealth of weather information, multiple industries can adjust inventories and marketing schemes based on the shifting winds of Mother Nature.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.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.News
To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry
Experts within and outside government IT stress the role the private sector must play in helping cash-strapped federal agencies find order in their growing stockpiles of data.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.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.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.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.News
Splunk Adds Statistical Analysis to Enterprise Security App
Splunk is seeking to make it easier than ever to use statistical analysis on your machine-generated data to automate the identification of anomalies and outliers in your systems.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.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.Tip
Crowdsourcing Offers a New and Wider Path to Innovation
GE, Allstate try crowdsourcing contests where external brainiacs compete to produce the best answers to big-data analytics questions.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.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.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.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.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.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.-
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