Big Data News & Articles

As business executives see the potential of technology to transform customer channels and the customer experience, their view of technology has leapfrogged conventional ideas of IT.”  Dave Aron, Vice President and Gartner Fellow

This statement and the study that it is based on indicate that CIOs are progressively favoring technologies like business intelligence (BI) and analytics, mobility and cloud computing in order to maximize customer experience management (CXM) by skewing business priorities related to customer satisfaction.

Kapow Software has released Kapow Katalyst 9.0, a new version of its application integration software that can simplify workflows and automate data intensive systems into customizable apps.

One of the advantages of having been around technology for a while is that you gain a perspective on trends. What younger people are seeing as new, looming directions for technology tends to be the latest wave of a past phenomenon, but if you haven’t seen it before, it looks unprecedented.

Big Data is just a trend. It’s nice to see the proliferation of data called out and identified as a potential problem and a distinct opportunity, but before anyone gets too wigged out about the sheer volumes and the potential challenges, you should consider the past.

Google released its BigQuery service only six week ago, but the company is already adding new features. Is this the beginning of the commoditization of big data?

Another mobile content collaboration platform? Big Deal! Except this is from IBM, and while we know that IBM does collaboration quite well already, the difference with the newly released IBM Content Navigator is that it also integrates with its data analytics and Big Data capabilities, making it a pretty formidable tool for workers on the road.

In a keynote address at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston, Andrew McAfee, Principal Research Scientist at MIT, explained how the rise of “Big Data” is not only changing the face of technology, but the face of human existence.

 Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck is excited about Box’s future and its potential to build a smarter enterprise. At info360 today, Whitney presented about how big data is transforming how the cloud, social capabilities, and a web of integrated applications are creating a far more personalized technology experience for the enterprise.

Core ideas about a more structured Internet, vis a vis the semantic Web, are quickly approaching mainstream consciousness.

Semantic Web technology is slowly changing the way people use the Internet, and Semtech 2012 is a prime showcase for the best minds in linked data, enterprise solutions and interactive Web experiences.

I really do like it when mainstream media pick up on trends that folks like us have been talking about for some time. To me, it validates its significance, even if some of the topics need to be simplified to appeal to the masses. However, sometimes it annoys me when those in the media get it wrong. Case in point: on Monday, Dennis Overbye for the New York Times wrote a seemingly harmless human interest story about big data.

Big data is changing online publishing. As a result of this growing phenomenon, publishers are now facing four key challenges and exploring new ways to tackle them.

General Motors caused a tremor last month when it pulled its paid banner ads from Facebook. Because the timing of the news was so close to the social networking site’s IPO, there wasn’t much talk about what the world’s largest automaker’s decision might signal about the effectiveness of ads on social media as a whole, or whether other brands are likely to reconsider their social spends.

But with Facebook’s stock hitting an all-time low yesterday (it closed at US$ 26.90, the lowest price since the stock began trading at US$ 38 on May 18), some say the tremor has turned into a full-blown earthquake. It comes as a shock to many that petabytes of big, personal data don’t easily translate to dollars.

Experience analytics solutions vendor ClickFox is focusing on providing a wide view of customer behavior and the business drivers propelling it with the newly released version 6.4 of its Customer Experience Analytics (CEA) behavior recognition engine.

Autonomy, with a mighty shove from its new owner HP, is the latest company to push its way into the Big Data space through the combination of Autonomy IDOL 10 and HP’s Converged Cloud.

Big Data is not indicative of having a bigger brain. In fact, it seems that the bigger your data, the more overwhelmed companies are about developing smarter strategies about how to handle accelerated data growth. Fortunately, IBM has launched a few updates aimed at helping a broader and more diverse set of enterprise customers manage and process growing volumes of data smarter and more efficiently.