In Depth
In Depth
Big data analytics
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Using SAP Hana as a data warehouse
Enterprises are using SAP Hana for in-memory data marts and SAP Business Warehouse implementations that integrate with other data warehouses Continue Reading
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Digital transformation needs business leaders to develop new skills
A panel of experts discuss the capabilities business leaders and corporate IT need to develop for digital Continue Reading
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Business cases emerge from growing pains of Hadoop 1.0
The hype around the early generation of Hadoop is giving way to the reality of business programmes based on Hadoop 2 and Apache Spark Continue Reading
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Using data analytics to deliver more personalised customer service
Personalisation has been the goal for many retailers, but can the emergence of big data analytics be the solution they are looking for? Continue Reading
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Bill Binney, the ‘original’ NSA whistleblower, on Snowden, 9/11 and illegal surveillance
Always a patriot: Computer Weekly talks to Bill Binney, the senior NSA official who blew the whistle before Edward Snowden Continue Reading
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Apache Spark speeds up big data decision-making
Spark, the open-source cluster computing framework from Apache, promises to complement Hadoop batch processing Continue Reading
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How the BBC became digital in three-and-a-half years
The BBC has undergone a digital transformation that started 18 months prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games Continue Reading
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A guide to scale-out NAS: The specialists and startups
Specialist suppliers and startups in scale-out NAS, a technology that’s gone mainstream for its superior ability to scale capacity and performance Continue Reading
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Q&A: MarkLogic CEO Gary Bloom talks strategy
Gary Bloom, CEO of NoSQL database supplier MarkLogic, talks to Computer Weekly about strategy Continue Reading
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Sweden’s Klarna and Spotify design big data architectures to aid business growth
Many organisations still don't know how to capitalise on big data. Swedish firms Klarna and Spotify are making use of its possibilities Continue Reading
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Wearable technology will up the game for sports data analytics
Wearable technology is a big industry thanks to the ‘quantified self’ movement. It’s now giving a boost to professional sports data analytics professionals Continue Reading
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Analytics scours World Cups for greatest footballer of all time
Sports data company Opta’s analytics of every World Cup finals match ever played since 1966 adds to the debate on who is football’s greatest of all time Continue Reading
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Unilever puts SAP at the captain’s table
Consumer goods company Unilever works hand in glove with SAP in “speeding up its growth”, according to senior executives at the two firms Continue Reading
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Using NoSQL databases to gain competitive advantage
NoSQL is attracting growing interest from businesses - we examine three case studies: Amadeus, i2O and Temetra Continue Reading
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The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the way organisations work
If you are an IT leader, digital technology is likely to be a pivotal factor in your career over the next five years Continue Reading
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Hadoop 2 opens new vistas beyond current UK data management practice
Hadoop 2 enables a greater range of data-crunching tasks, beyond Hadoop’s previous scope of batch processing, directly within the stack itself Continue Reading
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Procter & Gamble uses Teradata cloud analytics for global marketing
Procter & Gamble has 15,000 websites, but sells almost exclusively through retailers. This makes gathering intelligence on customers tough Continue Reading
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Future Gazing: The Future of IT in 2020
The next six years will see the influence of technology accelerate, and that will mean radical changes for the role of the IT department and the CIO Continue Reading
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Virgin Media uses ETAdirect to manage engineers more predictively
Virgin Media is using predictive analytics to get the right engineer out to the right problem. It believes its use of TOA Technologies cloud-based ETAdirect system gives it a competitive advantage Continue Reading
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Big data journalism exposes offshore tax dodgers
How journalists harnessed big data to challenge offshore financial secrecy Continue Reading
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What does a petabyte look like?
How can you visualise a petabyte of data? What is it in real terms? Some experts try to make real the colossal size of the mighty petabyte Continue Reading
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Rugby Football Union uses IBM predictive analytics for Six Nations
IBM tries out predictive analytics software, TryTracker, developed in association with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Continue Reading
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Process big data at speed
Low-cost solid state memory is powering high-speed analytics of big data streaming from social network feeds and the industrial internet. Continue Reading
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Online gambling sector bets on business intelligence
Online gambling and gaming industries crave structured business data. Volumes can be huge and they need to react to customer behaviour Continue Reading
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GE uses big data to power machine services business
GE, one of the UK's largest manufacturers, is using big data analytics with data generated from machine sensors to predict maintenance needs Continue Reading
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Unilever enterprise data warehouse locked to business programmes
Unilever is building a global enterprise data warehouse (EDW) locked into the critical paths of high-profile business programmes. Continue Reading
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How to manage unstructured data for business benefit
The cloud offers some progress in the resource-sapping management of unstructured data, but it is critical to work back from the business case. Continue Reading