IT/BI Professionals

When I talk to clients about “big data” and analytics, their concerns and questions basically come down to this: how can their hospitals wade through a sea of information about patients and practices to find the best value?

Yes, there is more data being generated than ever. The challenge – and…

Chicago Bears general manager Phil Emery mentioned after last season that he had explored data made available by STATS LLC in evaluating the team. Now, he’s made a member of the STATS team part of his front office.

The Bears announced Wednesday that Mitchell Tanney has been hired as…

Teaming with a particularly ambitious group of computer scientists from the University of California at Berkeley, Ram Sriharsha,  an engineer at Yahoo,  is installing a new data crunching platform inside the massive data centers that drive Yahoo’s still enormous online empire. This software platform is called Spark, and according…

What happens when traditional differentiation loses its edge over time? Tom Davenport, the widely known speaker, author and professor at Babson College tells BI Review that increasingly, analytics will have a primary rather than supporting role in competitive strategies.

Davenport’s conclusion is more about operational excellence than it is…

SiSense brings its single-server Prism BI/Big Data package to the Rackspace cloud, offering low-overhead analytics, on a subscription basis…

It may raise hackles to think that U.S. intelligence officials might be monitoring your telephone and Internet communications, but for most of us it’s only the marketers who are really interested in our everyday online activities. And with many billions of dollars at stake, companies are increasingly turning…

What unites Steven Levitt’s intriguingly offbeat findings is that they are all informed and underpinned by data. “Data, I think, is one of the most powerful mechanisms for telling stories,” Levitt says. “I take a huge pile of data and I try to get it to tell stories…

The smart city of Songdo, the world’s first ‘City in a Box’ will be ready in 2015. It encompasses 1.500 acres of reclaimed land in South Korea and it will be a revolution in city design. Songdo will become a completely connected city, where almost any device, building…

As it tries to make inroads into the internet of things GE has decided it will become a big data company, building Hadoop-based software to help its customers automate their industrial assets…