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SAP Empowers Users With Trusted Data Discovery and Advanced Insights
Analytics solutions from SAP unleash the power of collective insight, giving users the ability to engage, visualize and predict. By offering an end-to-end analytics solution built on proven, market-leading capabilities as well […]
How Amazon Uses Big Data to Boost Its Performance
Amazon pioneered e-commerce in many ways, but possibly one of its greatest innovations was the personalized recommendation system – which, of course, is built on the big data it gathers from its […]
Marketing Information is Lost in Translation: How to Save Yourself & Rise Above the Competition
A study conducted shows that 76% of marketers do not use behavioral information in either segmentation analysis or targeting. According to Pete Stein, CEO of Razorfish, the two main reasons for lack […]
Infinite Analytics: Small Company, Big Data, Bigger Ambition
Conceived at MIT, and backed by internet pioneers and global investors, Infinite Analytics hopes to tap the ecommerce market with the promise of real-time predictions of consumer trends and preferences. Infinite Analytics […]
Western Union uses big data to stop wire transfer fraud
Big data is coming to the rescue in stopping fraud in wire transfers, according to Western Union’s chief information officer. David Thompson, CIO, said the company has to tap massive databases to sort […]
Groupon expands Teradata data warehouse
Internet discount voucher firm Groupon has expanded its Teradata data appliance-based data warehouse to keep up with business growth and gain more insight from its data. Srinivassan suggested that the expanded system […]
Big Data Analytics Power Play: Suit Up for the Cloud?
Big data analytics is heading to the cloud. Surprising? Not really; services of all types and sizes have made the move to public stacks. But can analytics-as-a-service (AaaS) deliver on the promises […]
Data Analytics: Reaping the Data Dividend
Data analytics are essential to helping financial institutions stay the strategic course while balancing risk mitigation requirements with the drive for growth. It is an unprecedented time in the industry with extremely […]
Data Scientists: Stop Searching, Start Grooming
Don’t put your big-data project on hold — members of your current staff may be the best fit for your data science team. Data scientists, like fire-breathing dragons, may exist. But I […]
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