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Articles in category: The Big Data Effect

1. Big Data and MDM Explore martinsights.com (May 17 2013) Business Agility , Data Governance , Master Data Management , The Big Data Effect In preparation for Enterprise IQ’s upcoming 8th Annual MDM & Data Governance Summit, I have been researching the touch points between Big Data and Master Data Management (MDM). To set the context, at the recent Gartner MDM Summit, research vice presidents Andrew White and John Radcliffe stated that the increased popularity of social media, cloud …  (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Amazon   Data Governance   Big Data

2. U.K. Has $10 Billion Of Public Data, Study Concludes Explore InformationWeek (May 17 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect An independent study commissioned by the U.K. government to measure its progress in making use of public-sector data concludes headway is being made -- but that the pace needs to pick up. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Google   Analytics

3. Got Big Data Skills? Write Your Own Ticket Explore adtmag.com (May 16 2013) Business Agility , Hadoop , The Big Data Effect "Salaries reported by those who regularly use Hadoop, NoSQL, and Mongo DB are all north of $100,000," claimed a recent report from the 2013-2012 Dice Salary Survey. That's borne out by the Indeed.com salary search tool, which shows "Hadoop" jobs... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Hadoop

4. Big Data Could Help Feed the World Explore dataversity.net (May 16 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Prachi Patel of IEEE Spectrum reports, “Farmers today produce three times as much food as they did 50 years ago using just 12 percent more land, thanks to new technologies and better farming practices. But the global playing field isn’t level. In Africa, farmers produce a fraction of what they could, according to the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa, and most barely get by, struggling against infertile soil, drought, and diseases. Helping farmers ... (Read Full Article)

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5. Big Data Must Be More Consumable : Overhype Drives Workers to Take Matters Into their Own Hands Explore SiliconANGLE (May 15 2013) Business Agility , Data Governance , Hadoop , The Big Data Effect Big Data’s been overhyped and is destined to become a buzz kill of a buzz word, largely because the promise of Big Data has left a huge gap between potential and actual application. Setting out to understand this gap, Kapow …  (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Big Data   IDG   Hadoop

6. Microsoft’s Struggles with Big Data, BI Explore dataversity.net (May 15 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Tony Cosentino of Information Management writes, “Microsoft has been steadily pouring money into big data and business intelligence. The company of course owns the most widely used analytical tool in the world, Microsoft Excel, which our benchmark research into Spreadsheets in the Enterprise shows is not going away soon. User resistance (cited by 56% of participants) and lack of a business case (50%) are the most common reasons that spreadsheets are not being replaced in ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Business Intelligence   Information Management

7. Interop 2013: Big data is a big but young market Explore news.techworld.com (May 14 2013) Business Agility , Hadoop , The Big Data Effect A recent survey by Forrester found that 7% o IT executives and 9% o business leaders feel they have gained a true return on investment from big data. That means there's a lot more business can be doing to glean insights from the massive amount of data that's potentially available to them. (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Forrester   Hadoop

8. Commoditizing Data Science: The stampede toward Shadow IT 2.0 Explore Kalido Conversations (May 13 2013) Business Agility , Featured Content , The Big Data Effect Recently I attended the Gartner BI Summit in Dallas. If there was any one thing that jumped out at me it was how many of the analytics vendors I spoke with are lowering the barrier to entry for just about anyone to acquire and apply these at their desk, from their hotel rooms, in the [...] (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Gartner   Harvard Business Review

9. Big Data: A Brief History Explore dataversity.net (May 13 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Gil Press of Forbes recently wrote, “The story of how data became big starts many years before the current buzz around big data. Already seventy years ago we encounter the first attempts to quantify the growth rate in the volume of data or what has popularly been known as the ‘information explosion’ (a term first used in 1941, according to theOxford English Dictionary). The following are the major milestones in the history of sizing ... (Read Full Article)

   Comment Mentions:   Big Data

10. Helpful or Creepy? Avoid Crossing the Line with Big Data Explore smartdatacollective.com (May 10 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect One of the most discussed concerns surrounding big data today is privacy. While many powerful analytics are possible with the detailed data that is now collected on each of us, the sensitive nature of much of that data requires rethinking data practices and applications. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Analytics

11. Do You Really Need a "Sexy" Data Scientist? Explore smartdatacollective.com (May 10 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect A recent Harvard Business Review article argues that being a data scientist is the sexiest job of the 21st century. Data scientists help companies turn their data (big data and small data) into valuable insights. But do the people who have the sexiest job of the 21st century have to be sexy? (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Harvard Business Review   Data Scientist

12. Taming Big Data for Maximum Value Explore dataversity.net (May 10 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Rob Livingstone of CFO.com recently shared his thoughts on how CFOs and other execs can get a handle on Big Data and extract maximum value from it. He writes, “Data alone is of limited value. Only when the data source is analyzed and interpreted in an integrated fashion does its potential value emerge. Turning data to information and knowledge that is accurate, relevant, timely and most importantly, is where the real value to the ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Unstructured Data

13. Big Data Gets Dropped on the US Hospital Industry Explore dataversity.net (May 10 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Dan Munro of Forbes recently wrote, “To be honest, I never thought we’d get much further than Steven Brill’s epic Time cover story – Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us. We had seen some of the data in bits and pieces over the years, and we knew that many Americans were driven to bankruptcy through medical expenses, but Steven gave us fresh insight into the personal devastation behind the sheer cost of ... (Read Full Article)

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14. Meet Big Data's Younger Sibling: Little Data Explore Small Business Technology (May 9 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect The ability to capture levels of data previously unimaginable has inspired a bit of a hoarder mentality among organizations and technology companies.  Companies are stashing overwhelming stockpiles of data in the hopes of gaining a unique advantage to edge out the competition. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Harvard Business Review   Analytics

15. Big Data And Baseball Fans: Business Analytics Goes Mainstream Explore business2community.com (May 9 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect But if you really need confirmation that Big Data analytics is going mainstream, look what's happening in baseball. According to a recent article in The New York Times, as more Major League Baseball teams use data to make team-building decisions, they are (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   SAP   Big Data   Gartner

16. The Big Data Talent Shortage: Are H1-B Visa Holders the Solution? Explore smartdatacollective.com (May 9 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect It has been highly chronicled that the Big Data talent shortage is turning into a storm of epic proportions and the number of Big Data Analytics positions is expected to reach 4 million globally by 2015. The newly released Big Data Jobs Index powered by (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Analytics   Data Scientist

17. Enterprise Data World 2013 Conference Overview Explore dataversity.net (May 9 2013) Business Agility , Master Data Management , The Big Data Effect Numbers don’t lie: 800 attendees. 27 different countries. 7 continents. 12 individual tracks (plus combinations). 5 days and one idyllic location. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon   IBM   Big Data

18. Bringing the “Master” to Big Data Explore dataversity.net (May 9 2013) Business Agility , Data Governance , Master Data Management , The Big Data Effect Srinivasan Sundara Rajan of Sys-Con Media recently wrote, “Master Data Management (MDM) is a very important data governance aspect in enterprises whereby MDM enables the development of a ‘Single Version of Truth.’ MDM establishes Single Version of Truth by providing common descriptions for enterprise-wide entities. Before Big Data, enterprises generally managed their transaction data in traditional relational databases. One of the biggest strengths of relational databases is their ability to enforce constraints like check constraints ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Data Governance   MDM   Analytics

19. IBM Helps Security First Insurance Mine Big Data After a Disaster Explore dataversity.net (May 9 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect A new article out of IBM reports that “IBM announced that Security First Insurance, a leading homeowners insurance firm based in Florida, is using smarter content software from IBM and partner Integritie to collect and analyze big data including social media and email to quickly begin the claims resolution process for customers who have been impacted by a storm. Headquartered in Ormond Beach, Florida, Security First Insurance serves nearly 180,000 customers. Florida has more ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   IBM   Analytics

20. eBay bids on big data challenge Explore Computerworld (May 8 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Trying to make sense of the estimated 100 terabytes of new data received every day led eBay to start using big data platforms. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Teradata   Analytics   Hadoop

21. Building an analytics infrastructure around big data Explore TechRepublic (May 8 2013) Business Agility , Featured Content , The Big Data Effect The right big data infrastructure comes down to asking the right kinds of questions, and developing a suite of analytics reports that carry back business intelligence on both historical and real time levels. (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Business Intelligence   Analytics

22. Two More Big Data Vs: Viability & Value Explore dataversity.net (May 7 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Neil Biehn of Wired recently opined that “viability” and “value” should be added to the existing “Vs” of Big Data (volume, variety, and velocity). He writes, “The era of Big Data is not ‘coming soon.’ It’s here today and it has brought both painful changes and unprecedented opportunity to businesses in countless high-transaction, data-rich industries. In this first wave of Big Data, IT professionals have rightly focused on the underlying resource demands of Big ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Big Data

23. Little Data Gives Big Data More Power Explore dataversity.net (May 6 2013) Business Agility , The Big Data Effect Mark Bonchek of the Harvard Business Review recently wrote, “You may not know this, but Big Data has a little brother. And together, Big and Little Data are far more powerful than Big Data alone. Big Data is what organizations know about people — be they customers, citizens, employees, or voters. Data is aggregated from a large number of sources, assembled into a massive data store, and analyzed for patterns. The results are more accurate predictions ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Big Data   Harvard Business Review

24. 6 Experts on Speeding Up Data Explore TechCrunch (May 5 2013) Business Agility , Hadoop , The Big Data Effect Speed. That’s what it’s all about these days. The problem: it’s still more effective to use FedEx than trying to squeeze a data load across a network. It’s an absurd reality when it requires a plane to move data from one place to another. It’s not necessary to move terabytes of data all day, all night. Moving hard drives across the continent for a feature film is different from pulling ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment Mentions:   Amazon   SAP   Hadoop

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