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Business Intelligence Meets Mobility at eHarmony

As online dating site eHarmony has expanded its mobile presence, it has also made good use of its business intelligence platform. This provides better visibility into what mobile users are doing and what services are better off being scrapped.

11 nov. 2014 5 mins

Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Mobile Device Management

10 IBM Watson-Powered Apps That Are Changing Our World

IBM is investing $1 billion in its IBM Watson Group with the aim of creating an ecosystem of startups and businesses building cognitive computing applications with Watson. Here are 10 examples that are making an impact.

6 nov. 2014 7 mins

Analytics Big Data Healthcare Industry

My Big Data Has Schizophrenia

There are many business models that lends themselves for the monetization of Internet of Things (IoT) and big data convergence. The critical success factor is to generate context sensitive, real actionable alerts.

3 nov. 2014 4 mins

Big Data Hadoop Predictive Analytics

Microsoft Adds IoT, Big Data Orchestration Services to Azure

Looking to expand on the big data capabilities of its cloud platform, Microsoft has introduced Internet of Things streaming analytics, data production and workflow services for Azure.

30 okt. 2014 4 mins

Big Data Internet Internet of Things

8 Ways Facebook and Twitter Make Money

It may be unclear to the casual observer just how Facebook and Twitter monetize their hugely popular social sites, but both companies are raking in the ad dollars. These eight examples detail the ways Facebook and Twitter make money from their users.

30 okt. 2014 5 mins

Facebook Social Networking Apps Twitter

CIOs Need to Drive Companies to Their Digital Destination

There are multiple definitions of what it means to be a 'digital enterprise.' But getting there is 'the perfect stretch assignment for CIOs,' says Maryfran Johnson.

29 okt. 2014 2 mins

Analytics IT Strategy Small and Medium Business

Power Tools Company Uses Marketing Analytics to Compete With Big Box Stores

Big Data tools to combine internal and external information helps determine how to counteract the marketing muscle of Home Depot and Lowe's.

29 okt. 2014 3 mins

Analytics Marketing

Intel Turns to Wearables, Big Data to Fight Parkinson’s

Medical researchers today have only a rudimentary understanding of how Parkinson's disease progresses in patients. In collaboration with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, Intel is helping researchers use wearable devices, the Internet of Things and

28 okt. 2014 5 mins

Big Data Healthcare Industry Wearables