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Does Big Data Spell the End of Business Intelligence As We Know It?

Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as CIO.com columnist Bernard Golden knows it--and he do

26 Mar 2013 8 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Privacy

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.

26 Mar 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

22 Mar 2013 5 mins

Analytics Big Data Cloud Management

Healthcare CEO Expects IT to Keep Firm Ahead of the Curve

For Craig Smith, of Owens and Minor, IT is essential to employee collaboration, innovation and maintaining a competitive edge in a fast-changing industry.u2002

22 Mar 2013 3 mins

Business Intelligence IT Leadership Social Networking Apps

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.

19 Mar 2013 6 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Technology Industry

IT Strategy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Sticks to Basics

As Nationwide Children's Hospital opens a $430 million facility, the CIO for the Columbus, Ohio-based facility says her strategy focuses less on cutting-edge technology and more on improving the user experience for patients and physicians alike.

11 Mar 2013 9 mins

Healthcare Industry Mobile Device Management RFID

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

1 Mar 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.

26 Feb 2013 4 mins

Big Data Data Management Open Source

Social Media Marries Big Data at Wedding Retailer

Davidu2019s Bridal uses data from its social shopping community, where the bride-to-be shares plans with the wedding party, to tie the knot with customers

26 Feb 2013 3 mins

Big Data Business Intelligence Retail Industry

Hadoop Is Not Just for Linux Anymore

The expanded partnership between Microsoft and Hadoop distribution specialist Hortonworks has borne fruit with the release of a beta of Hortonworks' Hadoop Data Platform for Windows.

25 Feb 2013 3 mins

Big Data Developer Small and Medium Business

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