Category Archives: BLOG

Turning Big Data into Business Insights

The Reviews Editor at ZDNet UK, Charles McLellan writing recently in a special feature in the ZDNet magazine highlighted how the mere collection of data, which enterprises are doing increasingly efficiently, will not fetch many benefits to enterprises till necessary efforts to turn these into useful business insights are not carried out. As Charles McLellan […]

Faster Data Management and Analytics? Here are the 8 rules.

Big Data Quarterly, popularly known as BDQ, dedicated to bringing to the fore the various trends and analysis on subjects related to Big Data, features an article by Joe McKendrick in which the author unravels the new rules governing the delivery of information to enterprises and this may be achieved by effective data management and […]

How Amazon could use Big Data to change the way you shop.

Stephen DiFranco – CEO and Founder IoT Advisory Group writing as a guest writer in Entrepreneur magazine bring a fresh perspective on the recent acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon by describing this buy as a “playground for disruption of retail”. As this gives Amazon a shot at retail analytics, customer traffic management and in–store […]

Best 5 tips for successful BI initiative.

While trying to catch-up on what’s happening in the BI space, I ran into this wonderful article on zdnet.com. It featured Martin Draper, technology director at a luxury retailer, he had listed his “Best 5 tips for a successful BI initiative”. Let me start with a quote which appeared in the end, “Great BI is […]

Big Data: Separating Hype from Reality.

Brett MacLaren – Vice president, Enterprise analytics of Sharp HealthCare writing in CIOReview documents the complexities involved in the adaption of Big Data in his attempt to separate the hype from reality   created among with executive boardrooms. As according to Brett MacLaren  data  has enormous business value and helps enterprises embark on the digital transformation […]

2016, Big Year for Big Data

Writing recently in insideBigData, Linda Gimmeson, a technical writer focusing on Big Data, machine learning and IoT, takes a look back on the year 2016, and tells how Big Data contributed technologically and socially, she then sets out to make a list of six disciplines which has benefited by the application of Big Data. AI […]

6 Ways Business Intelligence is going to change in 2017

Ralph Tkatchuk – a freelance security consultant writing in Dataconomy, a leading portal for news, events and opinion on data driven technology talks about six ways the business intelligence is going to change in 2017. Writing how decision based on data is more effective than those based on intuition, perception and assumptions, he goes along […]

On GPUs (Graphical Processing Units)

We are excited to share an article by Eric Mizell in RT Insights.com – a web magazine dedicated to the advances in real time analysis, IOT and Big Data. Writing about how recent advances in input/output devices has pushed performance bottleneck to processing, he writes how the advent of a new technology – Graphical Processing […]

Text Mining for Claims Management in Insurance

Writing in the Claims Journal, a magazine dedicated to the claims industry, Judith Vaughan and Michael .W. Elliott, experts in claims and risk management, writes how text analytics is helping claims industry in claim processing, fraud detection and in increasing efficiency in claims process. The authors quotes a report from Accenture which compares the revolution […]

Technology Trends for 2017

Kasey Panetta, Brand Content Manager for Gartner gives us a first glimpse of the technology landscape in the year 2017. While writing in a blog he expands on the theme of the technology trends expounded by David Cearley, VP and Gartner Fellow in Gartner Symposium/IT Expo 2016, Orlando Florida. While writing on the technologies trends […]