Blogs
Data Journalism: Big Data, Data Science, & the Art of Non-Fictional Storytelling
April 12, 2013
Data journalist? Something about that nouveau term feels a bit pretentious—and unnecessary. Read More
Juggling Multi-Channels
April 11, 2013
In today’s multi-channel market place, it’s mandatory that businesses determine how and where customers buy different products or services, then shift accordingly. To remain agile, businesses need to utilize insight to manage and adjust their strategy as customers channel hop.Companies with an intimate knowledge of customer behavior and preferences by channel win as they can employ insight to interact real-time with the right channel, the right offerings and the right message. Derek Martin, Director of Sales, Financial Services at Velti, joined #cxo Twitter chat as we discussed juggling multichannels.
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Using Predictive Analytics to Improve Decision Making and Business Outcomes: Part 2
April 11, 2013
Predictive analytics, coupled with big data technologies, can help organizations in automotive, chemical and petroleum, telecommunications, and travel and transportation to improve business outcomes.
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Recap of IBM Twitterchat: Enterprise Challenges of Incorporating Hadoop
April 11, 2013
Hadoop is fundamental to the future of big data. Users are adopting Hadoop for strategic roles in their current data warehousing architectures, such as extract/transform/load (ETL), data staging and preprocessing of unstructured content. Read More
Twitterchat Recap: Exploring Enterprise Challenges of Incorporating Hadoop
April 11, 2013
Our #bigdatamgmt panel of big data and database experts chatted about the challenges they've encountered while incorporating Hadoop - and offered advice for moving forward.
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How Big Data and Cognitive Computing are Transforming Insurance: Part 2
April 10, 2013
In last month’s post, I talked about how cognitive computers, like IBM Watson, have the ability to do what the earliest underwriters did: approach each risk individually and, based on histori Read More
Amazing Tomorrow's Customers
April 4, 2013
Today’s customer is changing right before our eyes. It seems as if just yesterday customers were leery of online shopping or even mobile shopping. As technological developments, social media, and the data deluge change the way customers shop, buy and behave, companies must prepare for tomorrow’s customer or fall by the wayside. In a #CXO chat, best-selling author Shep Hyken led the discussion as we explored the needs of "tomorrow's customer" and how businesses could prepare to amaze them. We captured a snippet of the conversation.
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A First-hand Account of the Big SQL Technology Preview
April 4, 2013
One of the recurring themes at yesterday’s “Big Data at the Speed of Business” launch was comsumability, which is just a fancy word for ease of use. Read More
The Age of Agile: Beyond Big Data
April 4, 2013
Big data has its discontents. The backlash is a necessary reality-check in an otherwise vibrant arena. Often in this industry, when a technology is vogue, the hype can interfere with rational decision making, both among users and among solution providers. Read More
Accelerating Big Data to the Speed of Business: Highlights from the April 3rd Announcement
April 3, 2013
On April 3rd, IBM hosted a press, analyst and social influencer event in Almaden, California at the IBM Research Lab to introduce a new suite of IBM big data solutions, further expanding Read More
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