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The Rise Of The Chief Data Officer

Companies are increasingly becoming aware of the value data offers to an organization. They are also recognizing the need to understand and visualize this data. As such, businesses have begun to...

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Cloud Storage Costs

If your company has yet to migrate to the cloud because you’re worried about the bottom line, this might come as a big surprise: Cloud computing is not actually that expensive. Amazon, a company that...

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Beware Of Big Data Biases

Big data has the potential to yield business insights that give organizations an edge on their competition. In spite of all the positive changes that have taken place as a result of data-driven...

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7 Ways Big Data Affects Your Everyday Life

This is the so-called digital age. We can stream music, look up directions on a GPS, send a picture to our friends and buy a new shirt, all at the same time. With information so readily available, it...

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How Big Data Disrupts IT

Could there possibly be another area in which big data has had a more profound influence than the IT industry? Information technology has been on the rapid rise since the beginning of the Internet. IT...

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How Big Data Is Coming Into Play At The World Cup

Now in its second week, the 2014 FIFA World Cup is officially one of the most-watched television events of all time. According to reports, the first U.S. match in Brazil garnered over 16 million...

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The Industrial Revolution Of Data

We are now at the nascent stage of what Joseph Hellerstein at Radar calls “The Industrial Revolution of Data.” The first Industrial Revolution was characterized by a series of rapid changes in the...

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Here’s How Retail Should Be Using Big Data

Big data is transforming the way retail businesses operate and interact with their customers. In the past, it was difficult for retailers to collect all of the data that they needed to run their...

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How BYOD Is Leading To Wider Use Of The Cloud

There are two trends among businesses that appear to be gaining momentum as time goes on. The first and most prevalent one is the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement, allowing employees to use their...

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The Partnership Between Gamification And Data

If you’re a runner, you’ve experienced it. After what feels like a particularly bad run, you look at your watch and realize you’ve actually hit a new personal record.  Imagine if you could harness that...

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Why Invest In Business Intelligence

In the past 10 years, $2,367,468,246 has been invested in business intelligence companies, according to Crunchbase data. Almost half of those investments happened in the last two years. Investors know...

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How The Internet Of Things Will Shape The Future

In the past ten years we’ve already seen how the Internet of Things is changing our world. With smart phones, smart watches and connected devices, this is just the beginning. PricewaterhouseCoopers...

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Moneyball For Music: Why Streaming Services Are Betting On Analytics

Amid a bitter feud between music artists and streaming services over royalties for online music, Pandora appears to be extending the olive branch. In an attempt to lure musicians back to the site, the...

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What Types Of Companies Will Benefit Most From Using Mobile BI?

Traditional business intelligence is typically associated with users who have exceptional analytics skills, understand complex algorithms and have unique training in decoding specific sets of data to...

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Hadoop 101: What It Is And How It Can Work For You

The tech world has been abuzz with chatter about Hadoop for years, and the chatter has only increased as Hortonworks Inc. filed an IPO last week to take their big data software public. You may have...

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Why Data-Driven Retailers Stand To Gain From Black Friday

Between Thursday evening “doorbuster” deals and Cyber Monday, retailers are under pressure to extend the holiday shopping season and slash prices in order to drive sales. These efforts appear to be...

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The Surprising Industries Making Use Of Big Data Analytics

Anyone who stays current on tech trends knows that big data is changing the way many business leaders are running their organizations. The specific industries currently incorporating this emerging tool...

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How Data Is Delivering Marketing Insights This Holiday Season

The winter holidays are in full swing. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday behind us, retailers now look ahead to Christmas to bring in a large chunk of the year’s revenue. The winter holidays bring in...

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5 Fears Employees Have About Big Data (And How To Unpack Them)

Despite all the reasons big data analytics can improve your organization, there is still some hesitancy in employees to jump on the big data ship. At first, big data initiatives can be intimidating and...

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Year In Review: Top 6 BI Events Of 2014

2014 was a year filled with hot tech trends including analytics, visualization, big data and SaaS. Innovative companies all across the globe made considerable efforts to stay current by finding...

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