Category: Big Data

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: mike-sadler; Recently, we hosted a webinar featuring Forrester VP and principal analyst Bobby Cameron to present "Mastering IT complexity with integrated planning." In this informational session, we discussed the fact that in firms moving towards automation and digitalization, IT is transforming from a back-office cost center to a strategic advisor for the overall company.In this transformational context, IT planning requirements are constantly shifting to keep pace with the changing technological landscape, resulting in IT planning and budgeting becoming increasingly complex and more critical than ever before. Following this webinar, ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Katrine Spirina. 23 July 2019Author Katrine SpirinaBusiness intelligence (BI) is a set of strategies and tools that companies can employ to handle the analysis of business data. The tools and solutions, especially custom-made ones, facilitate the work of experts in monitoring KPIs of business, analyzing fast-changing market realities and factors impacting performance. Business intelligence solutions are a trend that is here to empower business owners to make decisions based on rich data, not their gut instinct.AI Increases Analytics Literacy and Impacts Decision MakingCompanies effectively use BI apps to thrive and maintain leading positions against competitors ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Robert Jordan. The year 2019 has been the year of huge technological changes!We are already seeing artificial intelligence, machine learning, voice assistants, and chatbots penetrating in our daily lives and bringing positive changes. Companies are integrating these developments in their process to generate more revenue and serve their customers successfully. One of the best examples is of chatbots, which are providing impressive service to customers across the world.Chatbots in companies and different industriesAllstate, one of the largest insurance provider in USA, developed a virtual AI assistant known as Allstate Business Insurance expert which handles ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Guest. Bookkeeping isn’t usually the first thing that comes to mind when you think about a business or startup. That may be true, but bookkeeping is something that you shouldn’t overlook. For most cases, it’s vital when you are maintaining your financial records even for a startup. Making sure that your finances are in order will always be important. You don’t want to end up dealing with a financial crisis, even if it’s a little one.Having accurate books and records will save you both stress and frustration. While it may not seem as important ... Read More

Feed: Cloud Data Transformation Software | Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; There’s no doubt–data is your competitive edge. How fast organizations can collect, process, and analyze data will determine who leads the market in the next five years.  But there’s a hitch. Traditional on-premises data warehouses, while still fine for some purposes, have their challenges within a modern data architecture. They just aren’t scalable enough or cost-effective to support the petabytes of data we generate. And that amount that will only increase with the Internet of Things and other new sources.  When it comes to data, the future of data analytics ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Merritt Maxim. According to UN projections, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2050. As cities grow, municipal governments are investing in infrastructure and applications to improve operations, services for constituents, and the overall urban experience. Composed of the internet of things, “smart cities,” aimed to optimize operations, present new security and privacy risks to city leaders and citizens alike. Existing Smart City Defenses Are Insufficient In April 2019, ransomware infected the servers for the city of Stuart, Florida and brought down email, payroll, and other vital functions, ultimately costing the ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jennifer Wise. Companies commonly ask me these innovation questions: What emerging technology should I invest in this year? We’re piloting [new technology] — where do we start? How do we manage innovation when we’re busy with incremental improvements? What this shows is that many companies know that innovation is important — and they’re right. Innovation is crucial to staying in business. Why? Industries are in flux: Companies reinvent themselves, new ones are born, and established ones die due to upended delivery and operating models, changing customer expectations, and more. But where is the best place ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Dipanjan Chatterjee. The Value Of Brand Valuing a brand can be a deeply divisive exercise. To most marketers, there is an axiomatic simplicity to brand value. Questioning it, or attempting to validate it, can well be an exercise in futility and mathematical mumbo jumbo. Wally Olins (of Wolff Olins fame) once characterized the attempt to “chew [brand] up into numbers” as a “contemporary version of witchcraft.” However, not all CEOs, CFOs, business heads, and others like them are cut from the same cloth. Someone has to show them the money. As Bobby Calder writes in ... Read More

Feed: James Serra's Blog. Author: James Serra. Below are the top 15 questions I am seeing from customers looking to build a modern data warehouse in the cloud, and the blogs that I have wrote that try to answer each question (I have updated most of these blogs): Do I need a data lake? Data lake detailsDo I need a relational data warehouse? Is the traditional data warehouse dead?Do I need a cube? The need for having both a DW and cubesWhere do I clean my data? Where should I clean my data?What is the Common Data Model (CDM)? Common ... Read More

Feed: CDH – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Krishna Maheshwari. Apache Phoenix for CDH: Best New Feature for DBMS Cloudera is adopting and will be supporting Apache Phoenix for CDH while it integrates it for its Cloudera Data Platform on a go-forward basis. Cloudera’s CDH releases have included Apache HBase which provides a resilient, NoSQL DBMS for customers operational applications that want to leverage the power of big-data.  These applications have grown into mission important and mission critical applications that drive top-line revenue and bottom-line profitability.  These applications include customer facing applications, ecommerce platforms, risk & fraud detection used behind the ... Read More