Big Data News & Articles

When it comes to big data, just how much of it is used to leverage your site’s analytics? Thanks to the Dachis Group and its new SaaS product, Advocate Insight, you can monitor and measure the daily interactions in an effort to identify a brand’s most passionate and engaged customers across their social footprint.

If you're part of a large website then understanding human behavioral data will be central to the advancement of your career.

Which conference did you visit in the last two weeks?

Our contributors have been on the go the last few weeks, reporting back from the GigaOm Data Conference in New York, the New Zealand SharePoint Conference, South By Southwest and the Microsoft Project Conference. Data ran through all of these conferences: how to capitalize on it, how to preserve it, how to make it accessible for employees.

In other articles, one contributor went from anti-gamification skeptic to convert in two easy steps (and has a clean house as a result), another gave hints how to keep the customer on your side and we heard about the ROI on inter office Snookie talk.

Read on.

Most business leaders agree that more data is usually a good thing for business. Data can improve competitive advantage, identify inefficiencies or be the impetus for an entirely new product or service. However, just because you have data doesn’t mean you can use it. A new study has found that a significant majority of companies are not able to take advantage of the data they are collecting and, even when they attempt use the data, many are struggling to analyze it.

This week in the GRC space, new research from IDC shows security and regulatory concerns are holding back cloud adoption, at least in the utilities vertical; NextDocs upgrades its SharePoint compliance product; Avira tracks lost Androids and LockPath partners with Qualys.

A truly personalized online customer experience -- what essentially amounts to a custom website for every customer -- has been the Holy Grail of Marketing for over a decade.

SAS has upped the game in business analytics again with the release of its in-memory business intelligence product that offers easy visual representations of Big Data analytics quicker and more efficiently than its competitors -- at least, that’s what it’s saying.

Session retrospective from GigaOM’s Structure Conference

If you haven’t yet heard anyone say that “data is the new oil,” then you will pretty soon. Companies as varied as PayPal, Human Genome Sciences, IBM and Match.com are all drilling down into their data stores, refining and analyzing what they find, and then leveraging their insights to create new products or add value to those that already exist. They are literally turning data into dollars.

Busy week with security and data insights taking pride of place. Symantec has two news offerings worth noting this week including the release of Data Insight 3.0 and the acquisition of Nukon, IBM offers analytics for fraud prevention, ControlPanelGRC upgrades and Vista Buys Equity.

“What Java did for the Internet, they (EMC Greenplum) will do for the web.” That’s a pretty profound proclamation, especially when you consider who’s making it; none other than Scott McNealy, the co-founder of Sun Microsystems, where Java was created in the early 1990’s.

If you thought IBM analytics was big already, it has just announced today that it’s getting bigger. Bigger in a whole pile of ways: think Big Data, think larger number of offerings, think bigger market share. The announcement by Big Blue of its new predictive analytics services and software today contains an element of all three of these elements.

Not one, but two platform-as-a-service (PaaS) announcements hit the wire today. First Flow Corporation announced a new cloud based real-time data platform called Flow Platform, which allows next generation applications, particularly mobile ones, to manage multiple information streams through one interface.

At the same time, Portland, OR based AppFog cloud based hosting service added more to the PaaS fold with the announcement of ClearDB and CloudMailin, which join its established add-on programs for third party service providers.  

Remember MaqQuest? It's still around, but its flagship product became a commodity after the functionality was integrated into our favorite Internet navigation tool -- search. The company may be finding its way back to relevance with by embracing social + local + mobile in its new offering, MQVibe.

Microsoft has officially launched the release to manufacturing (RTM) version of SQL Server 2012 with a virtual conference and free downloads. SQL Server 2012 is heavily focused around three key themes and the company is positioning it as one of the most significant updates to the platform to date.

This week in the GRC space, Symantec upgrades its offerings for mobile security, EMC announced that it is moving into the security space, Agiliance adds new connectors, SAS offers Big Data access using Hadoop and Centrix upgrades workspace.