Big Data News & Articles

Further evidence that big data is going mainstream is the announcement from Hortonworks that its Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDPW) is available in beta, making it the first Apache Hadoop distribution that is available for both Windows and Linux.

Exponential growth of customer data, and the difficulties most marketers have in keeping up with that growth, are creating a situation where marketers are “data-rich and insight-poor.” Findings of a new survey from Infogroup Targeting Solutions and Yesmail Interactive indicate that during 2013, marketers plan to increase spending and hiring to help keep pace with the explosion of customer data and turn it into actionable insight.

Ask the average IT professional to name SAP’s claims to fame, and chances are they’ll tell you about its enterprise business applications such as enterprise resource planning (SAP ERP), enterprise data warehouse SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW), SAP Business Objects and so on.

What are the characteristics of a data-driven business? A new global survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Tableau Software, of more than 500 C-level and senior business executives sought to examine exactly that.

By this point anyone involved in the world of digital content management is familiar with the intricacies of Big Data. But is Big Data already being eclipsed by an emerging concept known as “Big Knowledge”?

We talk often about big data and big data technologies. However, in all the discussion around the best deployments and the best enterprise strategies, the human element in the equation is often overlooked. In the introduction to the AIIM Executive Leadership Council’s examination of this problem, John Mancini and Thorton May argue that this needs to be addressed in order for enterprises to achieve an acceptable level of ROI with their big data deployments.

Enterprise social data platform, DataSift has announced an open source, embeddable version of Query Builder, its visual interface tool that filters and curates social data.

Customer experience management company, SDL has released a new feature for its Language Technologies platform. The feature, Machine Translation (MT), will help businesses sort through content from e-Commerce sites, social media and help forums that are in a different language.

As a precursor to its upcoming conferences in the US and Australia on actionable analytics, Gartner has just published a new research report that identifies three trends that will push users towards analytics adoption in the medium term.

Big data is often the culmination of many different sources of information. Online, offline, mobile, social and local, among others. Connecting to it all can be challenging, not to mention analyzing it. Thanks to a new tool from Apigee, organizations can connect and analyze potentially massive amounts of external data from APIs, apps, social, and mobile ecosystems, together with other data sources for context.
 

This ain't Larry Ellison's locked down world. Unlike some other industry vendors, SAP isn't aiming to be the alpha and omega of Corporate IT. Instead the Enterprise application turned database platform provider chooses to focus on what it does best and builds deep partnerships with others in the stack.

Big data is only so much noise if you don't do anything with it. And with many people speculating about the looming lack of data scientists, the time might be right to go into that field. Which is what Think Big Analytics has done, now with the help of US$ 3 million in funding for its Big Data consultancy firm.

If it happens to me, it happens to you. You type the URL of a business that you e-frequent into your browser and watch the site load. The content that shows up on the landing page is generic, and it doesn’t offer you anything that you don’t already own or have decided not to buy. 

IBM has announced the acquisition of Star Analytics, which in turn will give IBM more specialized and more efficient big data collection and analytics tools. 

Watson is going to college. That is, IBM’s Watson, as in the digital youngster that showed carbon-based Jeopardy champions you don’t need to be human to provide answers in the form of questions -- and to win on that venerable quiz show.