Analytics

ASB: Making digital money ‘tactile’ and ‘tangible’

Call Centers Suffer From Big Data Overload

Nearly half of all contact centers consistently collect and report on metrics that they never use to improve the customer experience, according to a new survey.

The Care and Feeding of Data Scientists

CIOs must encourage data scientists to solve real business problems, not just play with data.

Most ANZ organisations unprepared for ‘Big Data’

For CMOs Big Data Can Lead to Big Profits

It's become a common refrain that marketers need to become more data-driven. This infographic breaks down the pressures that chief marketing officers are under and the upside to embracing big data.

Facebook Open Sources Its Embedded Database Code

Facebook has released RocksDB -- an embeddable, persistent key-value store for fast storage -- to the open source community. The embedded database is intended to support applications that need low-latency database accesses.

8 iPad Apps That Are Complex, Powerful and Advanced

Most people don't think of the iPad as a high-end computing device. These eight apps prove otherwise.

Big Data Application Framework Gets Update, SQL Interface

Open source big data application platform specialist Concurrent has released a new version of the Cascading application framework and simultaneously released Cascading Lingual 1.0, an ANSI SQL interface for Hadoop.

Foodstuffs North Island embarks on multi-million dollar technology upgrade

6 Software Development Lessons From Healthcare.gov’s Failed Launch

The problems that plagued the launch of Healthcare.gov -- the online data hub and insurance marketplace central to healthcare reform -- will someday fill a book. For now, developers can apply these six lessons from Healthcare.gov's very public f