Social Media/Collaboration

Executives and managers are awash in business intelligence information but the benefits of analytics tools are barely trickling down to frontline workers, according to a recent survey. Fewer than six out of 10 companies, the survey found, place significant importance in sharing business intelligence to operational employees…

At EMC we approach Big Data from every angle—how to store, manage, query, analyze, and visualize it, not to mention secure it. We also use Big Data in our own business, among other things to drive marketing programs. That gave us an idea: If we’re analyzing and directing…

There is a pressing need for more businesspeople who can think quantitatively and make decisions based on data and analysis, and businesspeople who can do so will become increasingly valuable. According to a McKinsey Global Institute report on big data, we’ll need over 1.5 million more data-savvy…

Startup Human API wants to help developers turn all the different datasets related to your health into valuable consumer-first applications…

A team at the Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is creating an analysis tool that makes spotting trends in social media faster and easier.

The tool, called SALSA, for SociAL Sensor Analytics, takes an automated approach that can sort through billions of tweets or other posts in seconds…

Social media, mobile and online shopping, and mobile and online promotions and coupons are the top tech trends making “a significant impact” on retail, industry executives said.

According to a survey of 101 senior retail executives by audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG, 71 percent of retail companies are using…

Inder the ‘Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Act’ [HITECH Act] states that people are entitled to their EMR data and they can do whatever they want with it, and that includes donating it to disease groups! That’s one of the big things O’Reilly Media is working…

BIXnets is an open knowledge legacy platform where you can exchange resources and connect directly with other professionals. It’s a Business Intelligence Exchange Network connecting experts, resources and users…

Mobility, especially social interaction, is creating another factor: data is now hyper-distributed, hyper-decentralized, and hyper-voluminous. We need new ways to get insight out of all the information, and that is driving Big Data and Data science as a new emphasis of organizations…