Category: Big Data Applications

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Julie Wilding. B2B sales organizations are constantly focused on hitting their sales targets, but it can sometimes be difficult for them to determine how close they are to achieving their monthly or quarterly goals. At many firms, employees spend several hours each week compiling reports that are out-of-date by the time they are distributed to other members of the team. Even worse, this highly manual process frequently leads to reporting errors that prevent sales organizations from optimizing their performance or accurately forecasting their sales totals. With so much riding on the bottom line, this simply isn’t ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Paul Harapin. Everybody makes decisions. Every hour, Every day. We tend to forget that simple fact when we try to improve decision-making processes in business. Senior leaders and executives aren’t the only ones whose choices impact operations and profitability: virtually all employees can influence these things by way of their workplace habits, the technologies they use (or abuse), and how they respond to unforeseen or challenging circumstances. In fact, the term “decision maker” can apply to anyone – and that raises some big questions about how, and to whom, we provide tools to help improve those ... Read More

Feed: MapD Blog - Thoughts on GPU databases, data visualization and integrated analytics. Author: Todd Mostak. Today, with great pride, MapD is announcing a partnership with the Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). We will be working with CGA to build new geospatial functionality into the MapD Core database, to improve hydrological modeling and visualization and allow for more accurate flood prediction and water-supply estimation. By combining CGA’s geospatial expertise with our team’s knowledge of high-performance analytics, we hope to build MapD into an even better platform for analyzing data at scale. More details of the collaboration can be found ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Brent Dykes.  / Self-Service Analytics & The Illusion Of Self-Sufficiency (Part 2) At many organizations, business teams have been forced to establish shadow IT teams to own and manage self-service analytics due to their corporate IT teams being unable or unwilling to embrace it. At other companies, more progressive IT teams have been able to partner with the business and successfully transition from a traditional BI approach to the new self-service model. Regardless of whether a business or IT team owns the self-service BI platform, I’d like to highlight three success factors for companies leveraging self-service BI ... Read More

Feed: Featured Posts - Hadoop360. Author: Andrew Lion. Guest blog post by Mohammad Tariq Iqbal Quite often, while working with Hbase, I used to feel how cool it would be to have a database that can replicate my data to datacenters across the world consistently. So that I can take the pleasure of global availability and geographic locality. And also which will save my data even in case of some catastrophe or natural disaster. Which supports general-purpose transactions, and provides a SQL-based query language. And which has features of an SQL database as well. But it was only untill recently I found out that ... Read More

Feed: Featured Posts - Hadoop360. Author: nikhil. It’s been 10 years since Harvard Business audit had pointed towards the developing expertise deficiency in data science; and three years since a similar association broadcasted data scientists to be the "sexiest occupation". Every one of these hypotheses were bolstered by numbers and certainties. The market hasn’t found any successful solution to this problem yet. Recently, LinkedIn has come up with its rundown of best aptitudes and factual investigation, data presentation and data mining among the main ten. Every one of these abilities fall under the data science space. The term data science ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Julie Wilding. As advertisers continue to expand their social media investments, marketers must be extremely attentive to each channel’s performance. After all, if Twitter is underperforming relative to a brand’s Facebook and Instagram activity, the marketer in charge of the account needs to know immediately. That way, they can reconfigure their Twitter strategy or shift budget to one of the higher-performing social platforms—before they’ve wasted time and money on a game plan that isn’t working. Domo’s Social Rollup app gives marketers the real-time insights they need to make these sorts of decisions with speed and precision ... Read More

Feed: MapD Blog - Thoughts on GPU databases, data visualization and integrated analytics. Author: MapD Team. We’re excited to announce our newest addition to the MapD executive team. Aaron Williams joins us today as VP of Global Community, responsible for fostering our growing developer, user and open source communities. He will lead our team of developer advocates and community managers.Aaron is an industry veteran in the building and growth of software communities, having led ecosystem efforts for some of software’s most familiar platforms. He previously led the open source launch and growth of Mesosphere’s DC/OS, ran the Java Community Process ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Andrea Sparks. When it comes to the Internet of Things (IoT), few industries have as much opportunity for putting connected devices to use as retail does. In fact, 70% of retail decision makers say they’re ready to make changes to adopt IoT solutions within the next five years, according to a survey by Zebra Technologies. And whileIoT still prompts visions of machine take-overs, in reality, most of the applications are more pragmatic—for instance, helping retailers improve their inventory processes, create better customer experiences, or save on energy costs. Here are five ways that retailers are already ... Read More

Feed: MapD Blog - Thoughts on GPU databases, data visualization and integrated analytics. Author: Mike Gardner. Based on the deluge of commercials and ads in this competitive industry, it seems every major player claims that they do. The competition is apparently so fierce that even their spokesmen are being headhunted. Admittedly, it can be a bit confusing when you find these results in one city: And these in another: By the way, how do you even define ‘best’ network? It’s a loaded question for sure. We’ll get back to that in a minute. Who cares? It’s a question with relevance ... Read More