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4 Barriers Stand Between You and Big Data Insight

A majority of organizations believe that big data can give them a competitive advantage, but nearly 60 percent also believe that moving from data to insight is a major challenge. Consulting firm PwC says four barriers stand between your operation and

Apr 9, 2013 8 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

Health Information Exchange Critical But Suffers From Complications

Efforts to expedite the adoption of health information exchange in the United States face a bevy of technology, management and financial questions. There are no easy answers, since HIE organizations are as different as the regions, the populations an

Apr 1, 2013 11 mins

Data Management Healthcare Industry Regulation

Workday Focuses on Its Post-IPO Future

Workdayu2019s HR software-as-a-service tool wins praise for ease-of-use, but it remains to be seen whether the company's financial module will be adopted as quickly

Mar 28, 2013 3 mins

Business Intelligence CRM Systems SaaS

Airport’s CIO Turns to Mobile App Helps Harried Travelers

Dallas-Fort Worth airportu2019s smartphone app makes it easier for customers to find their gate, food and a parking place

Mar 27, 2013 2 mins

CIO Database Administration Small and Medium Business

10 Real-World Big Data Deployments That Will Change Our Lives

The amount of data in the world is increasing exponentially, doubling every 18 months. Here are 10 real-world big data deployments you may not have realized were driven by big data.

Mar 25, 2013 6 mins

Big Data Data Management

Big Data Success Is All in the Analysis

IT executives are starting to realize that there's little value in big data without robust analytics systems that can crunch the numbers and give key decision makers (read: their bosses) easy-to-digest information. With so few real solutions on

Mar 22, 2013 5 mins

Analytics Big Data Cloud Management

Data-Driven Companies Outperform Competitors Financially

Companies that rate themselves substantially ahead of their peers in their use of data are three times more likely to rate themselves as substantially ahead in financial performance, according to findings from the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Mar 19, 2013 6 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Technology Industry

Hailo Picks up Speed as a Digital Disrupter for Taxis

Like it or not, CIOs and other IT leaders will have to deal with a digital disrupter who wins over suppliers and customers by wringing out inefficiencies in the market. Mobile startups like Hailo and Uber, which match up passengers with transportatio

Mar 7, 2013 4 mins

Database Administration Innovation iPhone

Forget Big Data, the Value Is in ‘Big Answers’

The CTO of Barack Obama's reelection campaign says we need to stop worrying about big data and turn our attention instead to the 'big answers' the data provides. EMC, which made big data news this week, is one tech company that plans t

Mar 1, 2013 4 mins

Big Data CTO Government IT

EMC Greenplum Tackles Big Data With Hadoop Distribution

EMC Greenplum debuts its own Hadoop distribution, Pivotal HD, which marries Greenplum's massively parallel processing database technology with the Apache Hadoop framework to create a technology called HAWQ.

Feb 26, 2013 4 mins

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