Analytics

Splunk App Captures Real-Time Streaming Wire Data

Splunk adds capability to capture wire data to its platform, dramatically expanding use cases for application management, IT operations, security and business analytics.rn

Why Analytics Makes Tesla Better Than Jaguar

The Tesla isn't a perfect car, especially in a market still dominated by gas guzzlers. But the company's widespread use of analytics to study its vehicles improves the customer experience and offers a lesson to automobile industry mainstays

Smart grids could drive open data movement

Forget Five 9s, Splunk Promises 100 Percent Uptime

With its new service level agreement, Splunk assures its Splunk Cloud customers that their machine data analytics will be available 100 percent of the time. Splunk reports that is is also cutting costs and adding making its service tiers more flexibl

The CIO and CMO Perspective on Big Data

CMOs now command more of the tech budget than any other executive outside of the CIO. With big data being one of the main drivers of technology spending, a strong relationship between IT and marketing is critical to business success.

Data Scientist Role Shifting to Focus on Developers

Anant Jhingran, one of the luminaries that helped develop IBM's Watson, says that as big data becomes more mainstream, data scientists must begin to think of their role as enabling developers to deliver business value to end users in the lines o

CIO 100 Winners Turn Analytics Into Money-Making New Products

GE Capital, Procter & Gamble and other winners of our 27th annual CIO 100 awards say big data brings IT a chance to break new ground in generating revenue and improving customer experience.

18 big data certifications that will pay off

Data scientists and data analysts as well as engineers and developers with the skills to work with big data technologies are sought after and well-compensated. Want an extra edge looking for your next job? Get big data certified. (Originally publish

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Analytics Project Wins New Business for Insurance Company

Insurer Bankers Financial wins a CIO 100 award for a new system that helps sales agents generate more accurate quotes that customers are more likely to accept.