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Healthcare analytics: Early days for many, significant progress for some

Recent surveys seem to suggest that the hype of analytics is overhanging reality by a significant margin. However, it's early days yet, and there are pockets of excellence, such as Adventist Health System in Florida, that are making significant

Nov 30, 2015

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Navistar CIO looks to big data analytics to fuel turnaround

The trucking company is using analytics software to detect potential maintenance issues that could ground its trucks, says CIO Terry Kline. The new IT strategy comes as the company struggles to stem financial losses.

Nov 30, 2015

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9 MongoDB success stories

The open source MongoDB NoSQL database is powering an increasing number of websites and services. Here are nine examples of organizations transforming their business with MongoDB.

Nov 24, 2015

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How to Jenga your way to an analytical enterprise

How the game Jenga can be used as inspiration by enterprises to execute the triple advantage strategy to an analytics culture change.

Nov 24, 2015

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How digital avatars will inspire – or frighten – us to better health

The value villain here is not an individual. It is ignorance of the possibilities of advanced analytics

Feb 5, 2015 5 mins

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How digital avatars will inspire – or frighten – us to better health

Armed with our medical information, digital clones may show us what we are now u2013 and what we could be in the future .

Nov 23, 2015

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Weather Company forecasts more big data for IBM Watson Analytics

IBM acquired the Weather Company for its capability to analyze and gain insights from a vast array of sensors situated on planes, trains, automobiles and other machines. CIO Bryson Koehler discusses some of the other opportunities the companies might

Nov 18, 2015

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New Splice Machine RDBMS unites OLTP and OLAP

The 2.0 version of Splice Machine's relational database brings together the scalability of Hadoop and the in-memory performance of Spark.

Nov 18, 2015

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Chipmaker’s first CIO resets ‘clock speed of IT’ with analytics, IT reorg

Micron CIO Trevor Schulze, in the midst of an IT department revamp, is harnessing analytics to augment anything from manufacturing operations to product development and engineering.

Nov 16, 2015

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