Big Data News & Articles

A group of researchers at Altimeter Group have identified four business disruption trends, and how future digital economies will be built, in part, by the me-cosystem. It's the world of data and technology that could deliver more useful, relevant and engaging experiences to individuals.

Let's take a quick look at a few releases out this week aimed at increasing social and business insights, enabling video collaboration and putting your SharePoint show on the road.

If you’re not clear why IBM figures are so important for the IT industry, then the Q1 figures that have just been released should explain. Despite a good start to the year, its revenues plummeted by 5% as its hardware business took a hammering and it failed to close off a number of multi-million dollar sales.

Companies who use Open Source software for mission critical applications are taking tremendous and unnecessary risks. So says Gary Tyreman, CEO of Univa, a Workload Automation software company offering products that unify Big Compute and Big Data.

In response to the growing demand for secure, remote access to enterprise data, SAP has just announced the release of the SAP Sybase SQL Anywhere 16 suite on its Real-Time Data Platform, offering enterprises the possibly of extending business transactions to remote locations.

Just ask a statistician. Big data is simply anything that won't fit in Excel.

Big Data is the new oil, the new gold, the new Californium Isotope … add your own metaphor. You’ve heard it said before, and you’ll hear it said again and again. 

Sometimes when you look at Microsoft and its consumer products you really get the sense of a technology giant that has lost its way. But then it goes and releases something like GeoFlow Preview for Excel, and you really get to see what Microsoft is good at. 

Big Data makes big promises, but it’s hard to leverage and slow to deliver. That’s the sentiment of many marketing execs who see the possibilities but have yet to realize big rewards.

Big Data technology solution vendor Monetate will make its LivePredict customer segment discovery tool available this summer. LivePredict will automate customer segment discovery by sifting through volumes of Big Data to find segments marketers want to focus on.

It's been a long time coming, but all the recent spending figures and predictions have been pointing to this. According to a recent survey by Gartner, nearly 80% of enterprises indicated an upcoming increase in IT, while more than half have a digital strategy in place to direct enterprise spending.

Larry Ellison has a dream. And at the moment it might be less about winning new customers than keeping the ones he already has.

The market has been waiting for quite some time for a sign from HP that there is more to it than squabbling over the Autonomy. The launch of Project Moonshot and a new line of ultra low-power servers may just be that sign.

Oracle has released its Business Intelligence Foundation Suite 11g, and among the dozens of changes is a Microsoft Office update that adopts the Oracle Smart View for Office as the single Microsoft Office add in for Oracle BI, Essbase and Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management apps.

Baseball season is here. As we now live in the world of "Big Data" and "data driven organizations" many in the analytics field think about the Billy Beane and Moneyball effect on how it has brought data into the realm of "cool." When I read Moneyball in 1996, I was inspired to write a book about analytics because it totally struck a chord.