Data warehousing
7 examples of big data going above and beyond expectations
Despite Gartner placing it in its famous "plateau of productivity", big data has, and still is, delivering beyond the hype. We look at a few high-profile examples of how organisations are reaping the benefits of their big data projects.
News : Data warehousing
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May 17, 2018
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May'18
GlaxoSmithKline R&D creates data platform using Hadoop for the internal sharing of scientific data
GlaxoSmithKline is making better use of the data it has about the development and trials of medicines through a Hadoop-based platform
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March 20, 2018
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Mar'18
Oracle Q3 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.6bn
Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2018 show an increase of almost 7% of overall revenue to $9.8bn, of which 18% was cloud
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March 07, 2018
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Mar'18
Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience
The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience
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February 28, 2018
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Feb'18
Government must rewrite illegal sections of Snoopers’ Charter, court told
A court has been asked to give ministers until July 2018 to rewrite powers to require phone and internet companies to retain data on the population. The government acknowledges parts of surveillance regime are unlawful
In Depth : Data warehousing
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Silicon Valley startups home in on pressing value from data
A slew of California-based startup and early-stage data analytics companies are promising CIOs better ways to get value from their investments in databases and analytics Continue Reading
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MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor speaks about ‘expanding universe’ of BI
Co-founder and CEO of MicroStrategy takes the long view on business intelligence and sees its universe expanding with mobile technologies Continue Reading
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Understanding analytics and storage performance
Analytics workloads place specific demands on storage. We take a look at the workload profiles of analytics use cases and the storage platforms available to support them Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Data warehousing
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The data warehouse – why it’s time to stop writing its obituary and modernise your approach
This is a guest blogpost by Dave Wells, practice director, data management at Eckerson Group. If there’s one thing the IT industry is exceptionally good at it, it’s proclaiming the death of a ... Continue Reading
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Big data best practice means a best-of-breed approach
This is a guest blogpost by Sebastian Darrington, UK MD at Exasol The days of operating a single vendor IT software estate are behind us. Such is the pace of innovation and change, putting all your ... Continue Reading
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Coping with the big data management challenge – it’s all in the mind
This is a guest blogpost by Miriam Fois, general manager, for UK & Ireland, WhereScape If you think we’re in the age of big data, think again. As the phrase has it, “you ain’t seen nothing ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Data warehousing
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Max Schrems’s mass surveillance complaint knocked back another year or two by Irish judge
Irish data protection commissioner Helen Dixon has neatly avoided having to deal with the US surveillance of Facebook users in Europe by referring a complaint by Austrian lawyer Max Schrems to the European Court of Justice Continue Reading
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Investigatory Powers Bill – the case for mass surveillance
As the Investigatory Powers Bill goes through its final stages in Parliament, a former GCHQ intelligence officer puts the case for the bulk surveillance powers contained in the legislation Continue Reading
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It’s not too late to turn the tide on Investigatory Powers Bill
The government has set David Anderson QC an almost impossible task in his review of the sweeping bulk powers proposed in the Investigatory Powers Bill – but it is not too late to make a difference Continue Reading
Videos : Data warehousing
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Video interview: Tibco's analytics chief on the role of BI automation
Brian Gentile, general manager for Tibco's analytics business, believes BI needs self service combined with agent technology
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UKTech50 Video: Driving your business through analytics – Staples
In this video Dave Ubachs, European CIO of Staples discusses the opportunities around big data and analytics, how can the CIO can drive value. He outlines why data visualisation and analytics are great opportunities for IT to move up the value chain, and how smart IT people can become data scientists and why are they are uniquely equipped to do so.
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Imhoff: Data warehouse architecture must go beyond the traditional
In a video interview, consultant Claudia Imhoff discusses the increasing need to augment data warehouses with technologies such as Hadoop and real-time analytics systems.