A recent story on InformationWeek shows how two CEOs can view the same company so completely different. Both CEOs used big data analytics to help them in defining the right strategy for the company. The first CEO was fired after 17 months on the job and responsible for a 25% drop in revenue in one year. The second CEO took a different look on the same data and is now … [Read more...] about What Are The Questions To Ask When Developing A Big Data Strategy?
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From Machines, Crops To Animals; Big Data Turns Traditional Farming Upside Down
The agricultural industry has seen many changes in the past 100 years. Since the birth of the industrial agriculture in 1900, we have moved forward to the era of digital enhanced agriculture where everything that is done prior to seeding and up to after harvesting produces data that can be analysed. Big data already transformed the agricultural industry a lot and in the coming … [Read more...] about From Machines, Crops To Animals; Big Data Turns Traditional Farming Upside Down
How Big Data Can Improve The Practice Of Law
Many industries are starting to see the benefits that can be reaped from analysing and visualizing the vast amounts of data that is created nowadays. Slowly also the more conservative industries are waking up and looking into the direction of big data. One of these industries in the legal industry: justice courts, legal firms and law firms all included. But there are still many … [Read more...] about How Big Data Can Improve The Practice Of Law
Gartner Tempers The Expectations Of Big Data
Gartner just released the new Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies of 2013 and one of the remarkable items on this year's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is that Gartner tones down the expectations of big data. In the 2012 edition of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, Gartner predicted that it would take 2-5 years before big data would reach the plateau of … [Read more...] about Gartner Tempers The Expectations Of Big Data
How M2M Data Will Dominate The Big Data Era
Machine-to-Machine data is likely to increase drastically in the coming years. More and more applications are being equipped with sensors that can monitor and measure many different variables that will create vast amounts of data. M2M data is growing and 71% of companies survey by a ZDNet survey say that M2M is about developing new business opportunities. The same research also … [Read more...] about How M2M Data Will Dominate The Big Data Era
