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Lack of big data talent hampers corporate analytics

Businesses continue to struggle with hiring the talented data scientists they need to manipulate their corporate data for insights, according to new research from consultant A.T. Kearney.

10 Dec 2015
Big Data IT Jobs Technology Industry
news analysis

MapR brings down data silos with converged data platform

The Hadoop distribution specialist has announced MapR Streams, which will combine with its Hadoop distribution and NoSQL database to integrate file, database, stream processing and analytics to support new data-driven applications.

8 Dec 2015
Big Data Hadoop Open Source
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How to test for a best in class agile data warehouse environment

Having a solid testing strategy and tool set is a foundational part of enabling agile data warehouse development. This article describes an approach that ensures solid testing that can be done efficiently and effectively in an agile development envi

5 Dec 2015
Agile Development Data Warehousing
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Don’t look for unicorns, build a data science team

Bob Rogers, chief data scientist with Intel's Big Data Solutions, says that rather than seeking out rare individuals who excel in all the areas that encompass data science, CIOs should build data science teams with complementary talents.

3 Dec 2015
Analytics Big Data IT Jobs
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Why one CIO hopes self-service analytics will make IT irrelevant

With the help of cloud software, Merck Animal Healthu2019s Dave Williams is striving for self-service supply chain analytics.

3 Dec 2015
Analytics Big Data CIO
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Predictions: Driving enterprise leaders and innovation in 2016

Enterprise innovation is more than just ideas.

2 Dec 2015
Analytics Cloud Computing Technology Industry
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Business drones will cause data management headaches for CIOs

Many enterprises will use drones for commercial data gathering - but indexing and examining this data will take specialist data management skills.

2 Dec 2015
Big Data Robotics
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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

1 Dec 2015
Big Data Healthcare Industry Predictive Analytics
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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.

30 Nov 2015
Big Data CIO Technology Industry
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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.

24 Nov 2015
Data Mining E-commerce Software Open Source