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Articles about Business Intelligence
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The big data challenge: Extracting actual business value
You've got the tools and the power of the cloud to capture big data, but figuring out what you want from it and how to extract it is the final, crucial challenge.
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SharePoint 2013 adds better in-memory analytics
Microsoft's business intelligence tools have arrived squarely on the doorstep of serious big data analytics.
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Non-tech execs break IT's grip on enterprise project purse strings
With the balance of power between IT and the business shifting, new research spells out some aspects of that change.
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10 ways to prevent loss of big data enthusiasm
Big data projects can lose steam once the reality replaces the buzz. Here are some ways to keep it on track and sustain the enthusiasm.
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IT jobs: The hiring winners and losers
The good news is that IT recruitment seems to be increasing in the UK but inevitably some job types are faring far better than others.
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The NSA and Big Data
While your company may not be subjected to the global scrutiny befalling the NSA and U.S. intelligence gathering apparatus, the "Big Snooping" capabilities engendered by Big Data must be used in a cle...
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Demand for Big Data pros on the rise
A new Dice report says that companies are getting into Big Data in a big way. Job postings for these jobs run the gamut from retailers to insurance companies and are all across the nation.
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The four phases of Big Data: A retrospective
Now that last fall's IBM and Oxford University survey about Big Data is in wide circulation, we revisit it to get some impressions from industry experts.
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Getting on top of the Big Data life cycle
If we don't start thinking about how we are going to manage this incoming mass of Big Data in our data centers--where images, videos and documents are growing at a clip of 80 percent--we may never be ...
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Use Big Data for marketing accountability
Astute marketing executives can leverage the power of big data analytics to fortify their value in the organization. Take some time today to see how your executives feel about your marketing accountab...
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Big Data analytics requires breakdown of operational silos
From the data and computing sides, we already know it is absolutely essential to break down IT infrastructure silos between platforms, networks and staff-but have we gotten this silo-breaking concept ...
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Preparing today for the Big Data challenges of tomorrow
Big Data challenges of tomorrow are many. Will Kelly brings us some insight from Big Data leaders on how to meet those challenges.
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Has the CIO lost Big Data?
Big Data technology has increasingly become embedded in business units, and budgets, and initiative ownership is shifting away from the CIO and toward line of business ownership. What can you do about...
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Double-down on your Big Data resources
Take some time today to re-evaluate the value on your Big Data strategy--you might want to double down on your resources.
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How to overcome Big Data's main stumbling block
The stumbling block for many companies-and the reason why organizations fall behind in the planning and pre-planning stages of big data, appears to be confusion on how best to make big data work for t...
