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Government IT Leaders Get Big Data Roadmap

The TechAmerica Foundation has released a report that stresses the need for government to align big data initiatives with business objectives and take steps to professionalize the field. The report also outlines a set of policy recommendations and pr

Oct 4, 2012 4 mins

Business Intelligence Government Government IT

Big Data Projects Lack Big Budgets

Most CIOs say big data technologies will become mainstream in three years, but they struggle to get funding and to find the data scientists they need

Sep 28, 2012 2 mins

Budgeting Data Management

How to Use Big Data to Stop Customer Churn

While still in its infancy, Big Data helps companies on the cutting edge of customer experience figure out why some customers leave and how to stop others before they do.

Sep 27, 2012 7 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence CRM Systems

Social Data Doesn’t Have to Be Big Data to Be Useful

Mention 'social data' or 'sentiment' these days and a conversation about big data is sure to follow, but you don't necessarily need a Hadoop cluster to leverage unstructured data--sometimes all you need is Twitter's nati

Sep 25, 2012 7 mins

Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Twitter

Big Data Analytics a Big Benefit for Marketing Departments

Today's companies collect a lot of customer data. Much of it sits on servers. Here's how firms in a variety of sectors can mine that data and turn it into increased revenue (and how IT departments can help).

Sep 24, 2012 7 mins

Business Intelligence Retail Industry Small and Medium Business

How Big Data Brings BI, Predictive Analytics Together

Big data is breathing new life into business intelligence by putting the power of prediction into the hands of everyday decision-makers.

Sep 20, 2012 4 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Social Networking Apps

How to Manage Data Center Complexity

Complexity in the data center drives increased costs, reduced agility and even downtime. For the past five years, virtualization has been the accepted cure, but it may simply be shifting complexity into other areas of the data center. To get the most

Sep 17, 2012 5 mins

Green IT IT Governance Virtualization

5 Free Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Office

Small businesses don't always need Microsoft Office software for word processing, spreadsheets, email, database and publishing tools. We look at five free, open source alternatives to Microsoft Office.

Sep 17, 2012 7 mins

Budgeting Microsoft Office Small and Medium Business

Splunk Adds Visibility Into Virtual Environments

IaaS provider CloudShare deployed Splunk to correlate machine-generated data and provide insight into every aspect of its business.

Sep 10, 2012 4 mins

Data Management System Management Virtualization

10 Top Advanced Data Visualization Platforms to Watch

Business Intelligence (BI) vendors are seeking to help organizations deal with increasingly massive data sets from a plethora of sources with new advanced data visualization capabilities. Here are 10 advanced data visualization solutions to watch.

Sep 6, 2012 5 mins

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