In the old days IT was about saving money, while Big Data is about making money. If Big Data is about making money, it is about creating value and value should be placed on the balance sheet as an asset. A recent study by SAS showed that around 20% of the large UK companies are already assigning financial value to their data on the balance sheet of the company, so more … [Read more...] about How to Define Big Data On Your Balance Sheet
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Geckoboard Offers a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard
Company Geckoboard Address Unit 310, Curtain House, 34-146 Curtain Road, London, EC2A 3AR, United Kingdom Founders Paul Joyce & Rob Hudson Founded 2010 Funding $ 1.8 million Employees 25 Website Geckoboard Rating 7 bits Geckoboard is a data communication tool that connects to all your data sources and displays your most important metrics on a … [Read more...] about Geckoboard Offers a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard
Big Data Startup Informly Is An Analytics Platform For SME’s
Company Informly Address 3 / 21 Nind Street Southport Gold Coast, QLD 4215 Australia Founders Dan Norris Founded June 2012 Funding $ 0 Employees 3 Website www.Inform.ly Rating 4 bits Informly is an all-included analytics platform for Small and Medium sized companies who know that it is important to monitor all kinds of statistics, but who do not want to … [Read more...] about Big Data Startup Informly Is An Analytics Platform For SME’s
The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
At the moment there are more than 1 billion Facebook users, of which around 850 million are active on a monthly basis. There are more than 100 billion connections and each day gives us 2.7 billion new likes. Twitter has 500 million users and 180 million tweets are sent every day. Approximately 100 million Twitter users are active on a monthly basis. Linkedin has 200 million … [Read more...] about The Advantages of Big Social Data For Your Organisation
A Short History Of Big Data
90% of the available data has been created in the last two years and the term Big Data has been around 2005, when it was launched by OReilly Media in 2005. However, the usage of Big Data and the need to understand all available data has been around much longer. In fact, the earliest records of using data to track and control businesses date back from 7.000 years ago when … [Read more...] about A Short History Of Big Data
