Analytics

How CIOs can take IT to the next level by anticipating industry disruptions

The key actions CIOs must take to anticipate their industry disruption and align their IT organization to the competitive challenges of the digital economy.

Aligning strategy with data management

Many organizations struggle with their data. But more than that, they struggle with effectively managing their information assets and tend to overlook the key role that people play in this initiative. People, processes and technology need to be integ

3 things healthcare can learn from PayPal

The simple and elegant interfaces that companies like PayPal, Apple and Google have developed make it easy for consumers to transact on their platforms. Here are three things I healthcare can learn in the next three years to dramatically improve the

Why some Data Lakes are built to last

Hadoop-based Data Lakes can be game-changers, but too many are under performing. Here's a checklist to make your data lake a wild success.

Biden says big data is key to fight against cancer

In ambitious bid to accelerate cancer diagnosis and treatment, vice president announces aggregated set of genomic and clinical cancer data.

Feds forming faster, bigger, better cloud services panel

Domino’s track you to the ‘cook zone’ on way to pick up pizza

Why Gartner’s definition of BI Visionaries needs an extension

A look at how and where BI product/vendor roadmaps need to lead the industry and BI users.

MapR shows off enterprise-grade Spark distribution

With companies increasingly turning to Apache Spark to build their data pipelines and analytical applications, MapR Technologies has released an Apache Spark distribution that packages the complete Spark stack, patented features from the MapR Platfor

What CIOs don’t know about open source software

Even companies contributing to open source projects have little understanding of open source usage.