Tag: Business

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Sandeep Raut. Today more than even, every business is focusing on collecting the data and applying analytics to be competitive. Big Data Analytics has passed the hype stage and has become the essential part of business plans. Data Lake is the latest buzzword for dumping every element of data you can find internally or externally. If you Google the term data lake, you will get more than 14 million results. With entry of Hadoop, everyone wants to dump their siloes of data warehouses, data marts and create data lake. The idea behind a data lake ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald, Tanya Reilly. Crane (source: Capri23auto via Pixabay) Register for the O'Reilly Velocity Conference to join Tanya Reilly and other industry experts. Use code ORM20 to save 20% on your conference pass (Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes). I recently asked Tanya Reilly, Site Reliability Engineer at Google, to share her thoughts on how to make better disaster recovery plans. Tanya is presenting a session titled Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again? at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, taking place Oct. 1-4 in New York. 1. What are the most ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald, Cynthia Savard Saucier. Roof tiles (source: meineresterampe via Pixaba) Register for the O’Reilly Velocity Conference to join Cynthia Savard Saucier and other industry experts. Use code ORM20 to save 20% on your conference pass (Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes). This post is part of a series of Q&A interviews going behind the scenes with speakers from our October 2017 Velocity Conference in New York. I recently asked Cynthia Savard Saucier, Director of UX at Shopify and author of Tragic Design, to discuss the design process, its impact on Shopify’s business outcomes, and ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Maliha Balala. Formation of mammatus clouds over the city of Regina Saskatchewan (source: Craig Lindsay on Wikimedia Commons) Download two free chapters from "Moving Hadoop to the Cloud" to learn more about harnessing the cloud for Hadoop clusters. When news broke that Amazon was acquiring Whole Foods, brick and mortar retailers panicked. Many industries are feeling pressure to undergo digital transformation for fear of being “Amazoned” (acquired by an online competitor). The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide spending on digital transformation technologies will grow to more than $1.2 trillion in 2017 (an increase ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Jon Bruner. Woolen threads being woven in a loom (source: Bea Lipson, CSIRO, on Wikimedia Commons) Download the free ebook, “Getting Data Right,” to learn more about data management and integration. As companies have embraced the idea of data-driven management, many have discovered that their hard-won stores of valuable data are badly siloed: separate troves of data live in different parts of the company on separate systems. These data sets may relate to each other in essence, but they’re often difficult to integrate because they differ slightly in schemas and data definitions. In this ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Jonny Schneider. Metal pattern. (source: PublicDomainPictures.net) This post is an excerpt from “Understanding Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile.” Download the free ebook here. Despite its title, this book is really about ability, learning, and adapting. Design thinking, Lean, and Agile are mindsets that, when practiced, help organizations develop new competencies. We learn to tackle problems and explore possibilities. We strive to make every action a learning opportunity for making better decisions. We put learning to work as we pursue outcomes in a way that’s optimized for adapting to constant change. More than following steps, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Adam Michael Wood. Pyramid pattern. (source: Pixabay) In "Learning to Love Data Science," Mike Barlow looks at how organizations are using data science to turn information into wisdom and business value. Download a collection of free chapters from "Learning to Love Data Science." We are swimming in data. Or possibly drowning in it. Organizations and individuals are generating and storing data at a phenomenal and ever-increasing rate. The volume and speed of data collection has given rise to a host of new technologies and new roles focused on dealing with this data, managing it, ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nikki McDonald. DTI brain tractogram lateral view (source: Aaron Filler, MD, Ph.D., on Wikimedia Commons) Sign up for "Designing Products for How People Think," a live online training course by John Whalen on August 16-17, 2017, to learn how your customers think, identify new insights into their needs, and discover how to apply that information to your product designs. Subscribe to the O'Reilly Design Podcast, our podcast exploring how experience design—and experience designers—are shaping business, the Internet of Things, and other domains. Find us on Stitcher, TuneIn, iTunes, SoundCloud, RSS. In this week’s Design ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Alistair Croll. Winners. (source: Pixabay) Check out the AI-related sessions coming up at the Strata Data Conference in New York, September 25-28, 2017. Every five years, we invent a new technology that, when sprinkled atop existing business problems, acts as a panacea for managers. In the ‘90s it was the Web, followed quickly by SaaS, mobility, clouds, data, and now AI. But there's a bigger underlying pattern. Web and SaaS gave us interfaces anyone could use. Mobility made them ubiquitous, taking us away from the workday—we check our phones dozens of times a day, ... Read More

Feed: Hortonworks Blog – Hortonworks. Author: Tom Hastain. As we announced a few weeks ago, well over half of the Fortune 100 companies, and over one quarter of the Fortune Global 500 companies, leverage Hortonworks’ open source data platforms, HDP and HDF. Open source has won. What these top companies recognize is that open source is an opportunity to develop and implement data management on their own terms. Many of these top companies also leverage Hortonworks Enterprise Support, which gives them access to a uniquely qualified and skilled team of Apache™ Hadoop® professionals with deep experience running the entire Apache ... Read More