In Depth
In Depth
Big data analytics
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Why Pegasystems' CEO, Alan Trefler, has learned to think smaller
Pegasystems has made its name supplying CRM, analytics and case management software to the world's largest companies. Now CEO Alan Trefler plans to use cloud computing to broaden Pega's appeal Continue Reading
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Appliances move well beyond the hype
Simplicity and big data are driving appliance adoption while suppliers strive to integrate cloud services Continue Reading
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Spark versus MapReduce: which way for enterprise IT?
The younger, nimbler Spark technology looks set to replace MapReduce in big data architectures. What is the pace, scope and scale of replacement? Continue Reading
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Finding the right big data appliance for your business
A big data appliance should be chosen carefully to ensure its value to the business warrants the expenditure Continue Reading
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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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Is the future of business predictive?
Michael Feindt, CERN scientist and founder of a predictive analytics software house, sees a future of more automated business decision-making Continue Reading
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EAT builds appetite for predictive analytics
Food retailer EAT uses predictive analytics from Blue Yonder to cut food waste by predicting future demand better Continue Reading
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British Gas Smart Metering consolidates data with Qlik on Hadoop
British Gas Smart Metering has used QlikView dashboards on Hadoop data lake to gain single view of its business 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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CIO interview: CABI’s Andrea Powell on feeding the world
CABI CIO Andrea Powell says the not-for-profit agri-science data provider aims to solve the world’s agricultural problems with data, structured and unstructured Continue Reading
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How database virtualisation helped the European Bioinformatics Institute save datacentre space
The European Bioinformatics Institute recently scooped the award for Best Datacentre Project at the CW European User Awards, and here's why Continue Reading
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Don't wait for EU regulation to practice good data ethics
The EU is working hard to achieve a unified law on data ethics and privacy, but companies should look beyond just complying with the law to gain consumer trust Continue Reading
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How Ordnance Survey will use 250 years of data to support startups
Ordnance Survey is embarking on a project to foster startups, applying its vast repository of data to solving emerging challenges around urban spaces and smart cities 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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Russian big data technologies evolve with one eye on US open source
Russian data technicians have, until recently, shunned full-scale use of US-based open-source big data technology; but with one eye on it Continue Reading
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Turning machine data into operational intelligence
We look at how companies analyse server and security logs to tackle cybercrime and internal fraud, and optimise the user experience Continue Reading
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Hotels.com turns to cloud and big data to drive up online holiday bookings
Online hotel booking site explains how the use of public cloud and NoSQL database tech has benefited its business Continue Reading
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Genomics England gears up IT for next phase of development
Genomics England, the government-owned organisation aiming to map 100,000 genomes by 2017, has recruited its first patients. It is also assembling the building blocks of its long-term IT strategy 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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NoSQL and NewSQL edge into Belgian railways and Austrian yellow pages
NoSQL, NewSQL and graph databases are finding uses in mainstream European industry sectors from origins in US dotcoms 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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DevOps spreads into mainstream corporate IT
DevOps will shift from being a niche approach to application development and deployment, and move into the mainstream Continue Reading
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Open Data Platform: the answer to a question no one asked?
What should enterprise customers make of the Open Data Platform, an initiative by IT suppliers to establish common technologies for Hadoop? Continue Reading
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Business intelligence gains ground in Italy’s manufacturing industry
How Italian manufacturers Bticino and Raccorderie Metalliche are using BI to be more efficient and agile Continue Reading
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Waste and traffic management apps come from internet of things
For years, the fridge has been the poster boy for the internet of things, but lack of commercial availability raises questions about the future Continue Reading
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NHS 111 shows how medical diagnosis can be computerised
Can the logistical and financial pressures on the NHS be eased by software algorithms? Continue Reading
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Five tech trends that will change the mobile world in the next 10 years
Computer scientist Kevin Curran discusses some of the trends that will shape the future of mobile at Mobile World Congress 2015 Continue Reading
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Internet of things could make ERP flexible, intelligent and real-time
To profit from all the data collected from the internet of things, future ERP has to be flexible, intelligent and give real-time information Continue Reading
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Single inventory accuracy: the holy grail of retail
The ability to accurately pinpoint where stock is at every point in the supply chain is one of the biggest challenges facing retailers today Continue Reading
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Polish companies face challenges with big data storage infrastructure
As Polish enterprises embrace data analytics they face the challenge of big data storage that can handle rapidly growing and varied datasets Continue Reading
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Chief data and digital officers rise to threaten the CIO
Just as the most senior IT executive finally proves their worth, a new evangelist tries to take credit for all-things-digital: the CDO Continue Reading
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Businesses dig for treasure in open data
Open data, a movement that promises access to vast swaths of information held by public bodies, has begun getting its hands dirty, or rather its feet Continue Reading
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Data analysts deploy Monte Carlo modelling gambit to fight West African Ebola virus epidemic
Mathematicians are using data analytics to predict how the Ebola epidemic will spread so aid can be deployed effectively Continue Reading
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Top 10 information management stories of 2014
How SAP’s technology helped Germany win the football World Cup was 2014’s top information management story Continue Reading
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Inside the Digital Catapult, six startups at the forefront of data innovation
The recently opened Digital Catapult in London’s Kings Cross is home to ambitious technology startups innovating around big data Continue Reading
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Digital ad delivery firm Adstream uses Pentaho to add analytics edge
Global digital asset management company Adstream turns to Pentaho’s data integration technology to mount its Adbank platform Continue Reading
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Interview: Fujitsu CTO Joseph Reger on human-centric innovation
Joseph Reger, Fujitsu's EMEIA CTO, discusses human-centric innovation and the need for responsible attitudes to technology Continue Reading
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Unlock the business benefits of digitisation
Analytics technology can help to transform the customer experience, but to achieve its full potential, IT and marketing must work together Continue Reading
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Transport for London builds customer profiles using RFID data analytics
Transport for London (TfL) uses cashless payment cards and RFID tags to create detailed customer profiles 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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Managing workloads in an era of changing datacentre architecture
Different workloads require different basic resources and hybrid cloud needs more intelligent workload management Continue Reading
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Genomics England exploits big data analytics to personalise cancer treatment
Cancer Research UK and government-funded Genomics England use DNA-sequenced big data analytics to develop personalised cancer treatment Continue Reading
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Dutch government organisations innovate in the field of BI
The Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority and the Radiocommunications Agency are using advanced BI to do new things Continue Reading
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MicroStrategy’s Klein: Enterprise analytics base confers mobile edge
Jonathan Klein, president and chief legal officer of business intelligence company MicroStrategy, talks to Computer Weekly 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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Polish banking, energy and public services weigh up benefits of big data applications
For many Polish institutions big data is still only in the planning stage, but banks and the energy and public sectors are beginning to use the technology 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 Verisure and Höganäs set competence bar high for BI
Swedish companies Verisure and Höganäs take care to design business intelligence competence into their organisations 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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How the internet of things could transform Britain’s railways
Network Rail Telecom and supplier partner Cisco reveal how they are working together to digitise the national railway infrastructure Continue Reading
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CIO Interview: Gary Steen, CTO, TalkTalk
Gary Steen, CTO at ISP TalkTalk, says transforming internal IT will help him meet growing demands for superfast data connectivity Continue Reading
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UCAS uses Splunk to get real-time data on A-level results day
The day when A-level results come out is a dramatic occasion for UCAS’s IT team, which uses Splunk to troubleshoot the network Continue Reading
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Data analytics adds science to the valuation of footballers
How do you decide the value of a footballer? The problem has been given added torque by the vogue for applying data science to sports Continue Reading
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IT governance in the era of shadow IT
The latest CW500 Club invited IT leaders to discuss the challenges of governance with the rise of 'shadow IT' outside the IT team 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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In-memory database technology puts Mitie and Wooga in the fast lane
Mitie uses IBM Cognos running on a DB2 Blu in-memory database taking data from Oracle. And gaming firm Wooga is using Exasol to speed up design Continue Reading
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Channel 4 Grand National app lets punters track horses
When Channel 4 won the rights to screen the Grand National it decided to use mobile to take the mystery out of the magnificent chaos of the event Continue Reading
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Big data storage: Analytics takes small first steps in Turkey
Etiya’s Somemto social media management project makes pioneering steps in big data with a Hadoop cluster on an Oracle Big Data Appliance. Continue Reading
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Data mining evolves in the era of new data science
As more and more firms look to analyse ever larger datasets, so data mining technology is becoming increasingly critical to data scientists 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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HP Autonomy executive: big data transcends analytics
Robert Youngjohns, executive vice-president at HP, speaks to Computer Weekly about why big data does not reduce to analytics Continue Reading
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Soundwave tunes to MongoDB to track music consumption on mobile
Irish startup Soundwave is using NoSQL database MongoDB to help it track what people are listening to on mobile devices 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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Making pancakes: How Russia plans a technology sector to rival Silicon Valley
The Russian government is putting £10bn into the Skolkovo Innovation Centre – an ambitious project to create Russia’s equivalent of Silicon Valley Continue Reading
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Cloudera v Hortonworks: Hadoop to complement or replace data warehouse?
As the market for enterprise Hadoop heats up, the battle lines between two suppliers - Cloudera and Hortonworks - become more clearly defined Continue Reading
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Undercover economist Tim Harford decries data visualisation dazzle
The Undercover Economist author says 200 years of statistical science should not be cast aside for the blandishments of ‘big data’ propagandists Continue Reading
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Bywaters waste management uses BI to improve customers’ recycling
Bywaters, a recycling and waste management company, has improved productivity by 4% using Pentaho data integration and business intelligence software Continue Reading
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Messier-Bugatti-Dowty gears up BI with QlikView toolbox
Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, an aviation industry specialist in aircraft landing and braking systems, is using QlikView to support business process improvement Continue Reading
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Accenture’s UK analytics head sees clients reorganising for digital
Ray Eitel-Porter is managing director of analytics for Accenture UK & Ireland. He talks to Computer Weekly about how data management has assumed a more elevated strategic role as companies go digital Continue Reading
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IT security analytics: the before, during and after
Effective IT security calls for intelligence ahead of, during and following an attack. 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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The digital CIO: How digital technology will change the role of IT leaders
We have now reached the point where corporate IT as we know it will succeed or fail Continue Reading
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Big data storage in the Benelux
Organisation in the Benelux countries are turning to big data analytics, but big data storage options can vary significantly between the lab and production environments 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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Advanced data visualisation tools transcend traditional bean counting
Advanced data visualisation tools take Muddy Boots and Volvo beyond conventional business intelligence Continue Reading
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What does 2014 hold for HR technology?
A look at the key battlegrounds in HR technology in 2014 Continue Reading
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Cloudera CTO: enterprise ‘data hub’ is smartphone to data warehouse SLR
Amr Awadallah is the chief technology officer and a co-founder at Hadoop distributor Cloudera. Here he briefs Computer Weekly on how the supplier is advocating the concept of an ‘enterprise data hub’ Continue Reading
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SAP execs predict more innovation as economic outlook improves in 2014
SAP executives are looking to 2014 as a year to establish the supplier’s innovation agenda of in-memory database technology, cloud and mobile Continue Reading
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Top 10 information management stories of 2013
Top 10 information management stories of 2013. Putting analytics to work emerged as the most popular theme, with Tesco, McLaren, and Telefonica Ireland among those leading the data analytics pack 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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Failure to invest in sentiment analytics could lead to brand damage
Early adopter companies in retail and investment banking are exploring social media sentiment analytics Continue Reading
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Tryg and Scottish Widows improve customer response with analytics
Tryg Insurance uses Portrait, and Scottish Widows Oracle CRM on-demand to better analyse customer behaviour, reduce churn, and increase revenue Continue Reading
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Skillpages develops DataStax Cassandra to rank trades with NoSQL
How do you find a good tree surgeon you can trust because he or she has been recommended by someone in your social circle? Continue Reading
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Basho CTO Justin Sheehy describes NoSQL movement as ‘Cambrian’
Justin Sheehy (pictured), CTO at NoSQL database company Basho, describes the NoSQL movement as ‘Cambrian’ Continue Reading
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Data discovery tools open up new vistas for healthcare informatics
The newer generation of BI tools, often called ‘data discovery’ software, is opening up new vistas in healthcare informatics. Orlando Agrippa, QlikView enthusiast and NHS health BI leader proselytises Continue Reading
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EU open data promotion could benefit UK economy, says CEBR
The EU’s moves towards an open data directive will create 58,000 jobs in the UK and add £216bn to the economy Continue Reading
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Data-driven innovation
Still in the early adopter phase, some shining examples of predictive analytics demonstrate the potentially enormous benefits it can deliver. 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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CW500: The rise of the machines – how devices are taking over the internet
By 2020, there will be a trillion sensors sending data over the internet 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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Big data storage choices
Big data storage demands capacity and processing/IOPS performance and a range of choices exist such as scale-out NAS, object storage, hyperscale and hyper-converged storage Continue Reading
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Power in the palms of their hands: serving the customers of the future
Customer information is provided at every touch in our socially enabled lives. By 2020, everything will be known about us Continue Reading
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Getting the measure of collecting data for a future of personalised service
Businesses that know about their customers have always been able to use that data to offer a bespoke service - big data brings new opportunities Continue Reading
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Big data and analytics: a large challenge offering great opportunities
The ability to collect and present information in a way that a business can understand, so it can make decisions faster, will be key to keeping competitive Continue Reading
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Information security is a big data issue
First-generation security information and event management (SIEM) products have been overwhelmed by the volume of data they now harvest Continue Reading
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Three approaches to HANA adoption: business need, process, full ERP
Accenture consultants identify three ways to adopt HANA: tactical, addressing a single business process, full-scale ERP transformation Continue Reading
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CW500: Why Channel 4 is crunching big data
Bob Harris, Channel 4's chief technology officer, charts the broadcaster's technology strategy to use big data to form closer links with viewers Continue Reading