Big Data News & Articles

The Internet walks into a [karaoke] bar: “Every breath you take, every move you make...I’ll be watching you.”

In today’s increasingly connected world, practically everything we do creates an electronic record. Every purchase, every status update, every Like becomes a part of the digital ether -- a tiny but permanent speck in the growing collective. And as organizations continue to amass this so-called Big Data, so grows the pressure to prove its intrinsic value. If you’re lost as to how, you’ve got a lot of company.

There is always something to mull over in Oracle’s results and quarterly earnings calls, and the one this week for Q1 was no different. Oracle narrowly missed financial analysts’ estimates, but the stock markets don't seem too bothered. It was in the earnings’ call this time that the real action was to be had.

One of the most popular tweets in our CXMChat Tweet Jam yesterday went like this: "Data has no value. Action on data has value. Connecting data to action is ROI". Here's the thing. Organizations collect a lot of data. But is it the right data? And what are they doing with it that leads to greater sales and more satisfied customers? A marketer can get lost in the details.

Editor's Note: Storify went down yesterday and we seem to have lost our Storify content. We are hoping this is temporary. If not, we'll rebuild the stories and let you know when the summary is back up.

Business intelligence (BI) tool and services provider Jaspersoft is continuing to show its commitment to supporting non-traditional data sources for analytics. The company has announced its new Hadoop Partner Ecosystem, and it includes a few big names for the continuously expanding Hadoop market.

We are only a few hours away from our September Tweet Jam. Today we'll talk data and how companies are putting the information they gather to work as a digital marketing tool. We have a great group of panelists lined up and we're sure you'll come away from the event with a lot to talk about.

For all the hype around Big Data, the numbers of organizations outside of the Internet and Advertising industries who leverage it to the hilt are still fairly few.

We are a little less than week away from our September Tweet Jam on data and how it's being used as a digital marketing tool in companies. Below is a list of panelists who will be contributing to the discussion.

Digital marketing solutions provider Lyris, Inc. is thinking “big,” as in Big Data, with its new Lyris ONE digital marketing platform. Lyris ONE analyzes Big Data from structured and unstructured sources including social, email, mobile and enterprise applications to support interactive marketing campaigns.

Data. It comes from everywhere, your website, your social networks, your mobile apps and sites, search engines, contact centers, customer support systems and the list goes on and on. It's great you are collecting all this data. But what are you doing with it?

While there has been an understandable interest in HP and how it is going to integrate Autonomy into its business, HP, under its still-new CEO Meg Whitman carries on as usual. Today, it announced new additions to its security portfolio that build on the strategy it outlined last year.

While the hot weather is hanging on in NYC, this week marked the end of vacation for many as students went back to school and the mobile device announcement season kicked into high gear.  

Our contributors helped launch the beginning of the school year with some looks at how to put data to work for you, future trends in the digital asset management world and an explanation of just what semantic web technologies are and what they do (and a hint at how they will change the future of enterprise information management). 

If you're like me and you miss the syllabuses from schooldays, consider this yours for the week.

There’s a difference between a big pile of data and Big Data.

It’s hard to believe that this needs to be said. But try this. Ask someone what Big Data is and see if you don’t hear words like petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte and the like dominate their answers. Most common definitions of Big Data revolve around quantity and data/information storage.

So the reasons behind HP's disappointing Q3 results of US$ 8.9 billion in August were many, with Autonomy said to be weighing HP down. But CEO Meg Whitman was optimistic and said they would continue pushing Autonomy and IDOL. The announcement that it is integrating IDOL into VPI's workforce optimization solutions appears to be the kind of thing she was talking about.

 Following on last week's unstructured data management product launch, Quest has just announced a new business intelligence tool that aims to build a bridge between business analysts who create data, and data consumers that use that data to make decisions.

BigQuery is getting bigger. On Wednesday, Google announced that it has added two new features to its BigQuery functionality, which provides the ability to analyze Big Data in the cloud.