Big datathe enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitizedis revolutionizing business. Organisations can use all this data to glean valuable insight into how best to serve their customers. Big Data is drastically changing business, with companies that have implemented a Big Data strategy financially … [Read more...] about Think Bigger – Developing A Successful Big Data Strategy For Your Business
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How Your Travel Journey Can Be Improved With Big Data
The airline industry has always been known for creating a lot of data and for airline companies the potential benefits when applying big data correctly are tremendous. From the moment a customer books a flight until the moment the airplane is in the air, data is continuously being created and this data can be turned into information to improve your travel journey and improve … [Read more...] about How Your Travel Journey Can Be Improved With Big Data
IBM Sensemaking And Privacy In The Big Data Realm
IBM Chief Scientist, Jeff Jonas has been working for the past several years on a project code name G2 but later title Sensemaking. It is a big data analytics project which seeks to take all of the disparate data that enterprises get from various sources and make sense of it so that relevant action can be taken. Jeff's analysis show that companies often have information … [Read more...] about IBM Sensemaking And Privacy In The Big Data Realm
If Big Data Is The New Oil, The Oil and Gas Industry Knows How To Handle It
The multi-billion dollar oil & gas industry should use big data technologies to optimize processes that enable the collection of vast amounts of data that can be used to provide additional insights, better monitoring and additional revenues. There are ample opportunities for the oil and gas companies to use big data to get more oil or gas out of new or existing wells as … [Read more...] about If Big Data Is The New Oil, The Oil and Gas Industry Knows How To Handle It
How To Develop A Big Data Strategy To Outperform Your Competitors
A Big Data study from 2013 by Tata Consulting Services showed that 47% of the 1217 firms surveyed had not yet undertaken a Big Data initiative. A similar research project by the SAS Institute in 2013 revealed that 21% of the 339 companies questioned did not know enough about Big Data and 15%of the organisations did not understand the benefits of Big Data. Several other surveys … [Read more...] about How To Develop A Big Data Strategy To Outperform Your Competitors
