IT/BI Professionals

17 May, 2013

Black Box Software: A Problem For Science That Extends To Big Data

Blind trust in black box, or click-and-run, software is a growing problem in science, and the concern extends to big data and high performance computing…

Publication: GigaOm

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17 May, 2013

The Next Big Thing In Big Data: People Analytics

When we use data to uncover the workplace behaviors that make people effective, happy, creative, experts, leaders, followers, early adopters, and so on, we are using “people analytics…

Publication: BusinessWeek

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17 May, 2013

Unstructured Data: A Puzzle, A Mystery, A Problem

It’s no secret that we’re creating more and more information both in our personal and business lives. Over the last decade, businesses have been creating and hoarding an enormous amount of information, especially the likes of images, videos, email messages, word documents and data on social platforms amongst…

Publication: Bdaily

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17 May, 2013

Healthcare Data Analytics: Ushering In The Data Revolution

Healthcare analytics is going to be huge, and this is how: the global healthcare analytics market has been estimated to reach over $10 billion by 2018. Frost & Sullivan estimates the APAC healthcare analytics market to reach $ 654.2 million in 2018, while IDC’ recent survey notes nearly 50 per cent…

Publication: Ciol

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16 May, 2013

The Top 5 Ways To Harvest Big Data

A widely quoted IBM report estimates that 90 percent of the data that exists in the world today was created within the last two years. For some companies, that data creates an illusion of knowledge. Simply having it or capturing it isn’t enough. You also need the right people…

Publication: Wired

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16 May, 2013

The CIO Is Driving IT Toward A Cliff

There’s an increasing perception across the enterprise that the role of the CIO as we know it won’t survive the decade. This isn’t anecdotal evidence, either, as respected institutions like the Harvard Business Review, the Economist and others are publishing studies that show that the average CEO…

Publication: Wired

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16 May, 2013

Banks Looking To Cash In By Mining Social Data

Across industries, organizations are collecting and using large sets of data to get a leg up on the competition. One industry that has been particularly aggressive at harnessing the power of data is the banking business…

Publication: Forbes

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16 May, 2013

How To Keep The Feds From Snooping On Your Cloud Data

A cottage industry is growing up around virtual padlocks that consumers can place on cloud services so that the vendors themselves can’t get to the information — even if the government requests access.

And in recent years there have been a lot of those government requests for access from storage…

Publication: CIO.com

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16 May, 2013

To Tap Big Data, Federal IT Must Partner With Tech Industry

For IT managers in the federal government to wring more value out of the enormous stores of data they oversee, they must develop deeper partnerships with service providers in the private sector, according to a panel of experts speaking here at the annual FOSE government IT conference…

Publication: CIO.com

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