Excel Ideas helps you extract the key information from a spreadsheet, but there's currently a limited range of insights available and some data formatting may be required.

Three-quarters of executives said big data and analytics will be critical to their business strategy over the next three years, according to an NTT Data report.

The use of artificial intelligence and Internet of Things is increasingly becoming a reality for businesses. Here are ways IBM Watson AI and IoT are being put into practice in 10 industries.

A new SnapLogic study reveals that companies can improve revenue by using data more effectively.

As customer expectations for Internet of Things devices and their capabilities ramp up, CIOs and CX professionals must work together to offer the strongest customer experience.

If your company needs high-performance computing for its big data, an in-house operation might work best. Here's what you need to know, including how high-performance computing and Hadoop differ.

The food industry loses billions of dollars in perishable items each year. Here are four situations where IoT devices can help businesses become more efficient.

Amazon Web Services' combination of cloud, data science, and machine learning has provided a whole new lens to understand football. Here's the inside story of the NFL's big data experiment.

Postgres is popular but can't unseat Oracle due to its business practices. Here's how Oracle wins with its contracts and database stickiness.

Big data has been a big disappointment, but there's a way to ensure yours won't be.

New startup Dremio just emerged from stealth and aims to democratize data for BI professionals in the same way that AWS opened up infrastructure for developers.

Unstructured data is approximately 80% of the data that organizations process daily. This primer covers what unstructured data is, why it enriches business data, and how it speeds up decision making.

Hadoop is a popular open-source distributed storage and processing framework. This primer about the framework covers commercial solutions, Hadoop on the public cloud, and why it matters for business.

IBM Watson is the most well-known example of predictive analytics in use. If your company wants to benefit from predictive analytics, here's what you need to know.

Have you been considering a database migration to SAP's HANA database management system? Here's everything you need to know about it.