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The most important and overlooked cycle in the CIO toolkit

We all agree that it's every CIO's job not just to operate, but to innovate. And not just to innovate on a single project, product or software release. The single most important cycle for a CIO is the critical sequence of conditions requir

16 Apr 2015 5 mins

BPM Systems Business Intelligence CIO

Hortonworks to speed Hadoop cloud deployments

Hortonworks has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Budapest-based SequenceIQ, a specialist in deployment automation technology for launching on-demand Hadoop clusters in the cloud or any environment that supports Docker containers.

13 Apr 2015 2 mins

Big Data Hadoop Open Source

Operationalizing healthcare analytics: A ‘plecosystem’ approach

The gap in the operationalization of analytics u2013 in other words, taking complex mathematical models and algorithms and making them actionable by integrating them into an end-to-end process requires a holistic approach that involves multiple compo

9 Apr 2015 5 mins

Big Data Data Breach Healthcare Industry

Microsoft closes acquisition of R software and services provider

Microsoft acquires Revolution Analytics, a commercial provider of services for the open source R programming language for statistical computing and predictive analytics.

7 Apr 2015 3 mins

Hadoop Linux Mergers and Acquisitions

Why a data-driven transformation requires a cultural shift

Metrics and analytics power nearly everything IT does at online marketplace Etsy. Its CTO attributes its success at becoming data-driven to the creation of a culture of learning and discovery.

6 Apr 2015 6 mins

Analytics Big Data Marketing

New Office tool brings analytics for everyone

Analytics tools are useful, if youu2019re a data scientist. If youu2019re not, then all you have is lots of useless data. Columnist Rob Enderle says BeyondCore Apps for Office is a potential game-changer because it puts an easy to use, affordable, an

3 Apr 2015 4 mins

Analytics Microsoft Office Office Suites

Can technology speed up baseball games?

One of the reasons baseball holds a spot in the hearts of Americans is because, unlike other major sports, itu2019s not rigidly timed. But with games lasting longer and the pace of play getting slower every year, are fans reaching a breaking point? A

2 Apr 2015 5 mins

Marketing Markets Sports Software

Healthcare analytics: 4 things impacting the adoption rate

Recent surveys on healthcare analytics provide encouraging news about the increase in adoption rates for analytics. However, they indicate some headwinds as well that are likely to impact adoption rates.

1 Apr 2015 5 mins

Big Data Healthcare Industry Predictive Analytics

What is data-driven marketing?

Once considered a mysterious black art, marketing is now a quantifiable, data-based function. But how do businesses use data analytics to drive marketing decisions?

1 Apr 2015 4 mins

Analytics Data Mining Marketing

Hadoop powers big data digital marketing platform

Splice Machine and RedPoint Global join forces to provide customers with an omni-channel marketing platform powered by Hadoop.

1 Apr 2015 4 mins

Big Data Hadoop Marketing

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