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Crowdsourcing Offers a New and Wider Path to Innovation

GE, Allstate try crowdsourcing contests where external brainiacs compete to produce the best answers to big-data analytics questions.

25 Apr 2013 3 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Innovation

6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that p

23 Apr 2013 1 min

Big Data Healthcare Industry Web Development

How a CIO Can Save an Incompetent CEO

When a bad CEO goes down, the CIO often goes down with him. The way to save yourself, and your company, is to invest in the analytics technology that gives the CEO the data necessary to make smart business decisions. It doesn't hurt that it also

19 Apr 2013 6 mins

Big Data CIO ROI and Metrics

Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big

18 Apr 2013 6 mins

Big Data CRM Systems Data Warehousing

How an Appstore Helped Tesco HSC Set Up Online Shops in New Markets

How Tesco, the worldu2019s third largest retailer, modeled the success of its online grocery platform in the UK on Eastern European markets quickly and on the cheap.

16 Apr 2013 5 mins

Business E-commerce Services Small and Medium Business

Social Relationships, Social Returns

Calculating the ROI of social media business is tricky for most enterprises. Knowing what to track can be a good start.u00a0u00a0

16 Apr 2013 4 mins

Business Government Small and Medium Business

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

9 Apr 2013 8 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Data Warehousing

HP Looks to Moonshot for Data Center of the Future

Seeking to reverse its flagging fortunes and build the foundational layer for the 'Internet of Things,' HP unveils a new class of software-defined server: the HP ProLiant Moonshot.

8 Apr 2013 4 mins

Big Data Enterprise Architecture Green IT

How Big Data Can Quickly Become Big Garbage

The bigger the data the bigger the chance of mistakes or inaccuracies. In that vein, a large database used by retailers to screen people accused of stealing from employers is identifying innocent people and could result in major lawsuits, according t

4 Apr 2013 2 mins

Big Data

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

28 Mar 2013 3 mins

Business Intelligence CRM Systems SaaS

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