Back in October 2011, Neelie Kroes VP of the European Commission, announced legal proposals to unlock the data held by the Europes public institutions. According to Kroes, opening up these datasets could double the value of it to around 70 billion. The open data portal is all about transparency, open government and innovation. All available data can be re-used, linked, analysed … [Read more...] about How To Use Public Data To Drive Innovation
Big Data
How To Become An Information-Centric Organisation
How to truly incorporate Big Data at the heart of your company and to move from a product-centric organisation to an information-centric organisation, where decisions are based on hard data and extensive analyses. Where do you start, how do you convince your CEO and which questions do you need to ask? An IBM study revealed that at the moment 71% of the organisations are not … [Read more...] about How To Become An Information-Centric Organisation
Big Data Ownership – Who Owns Your Data?
The digital universe is expanding at a rate of 1 exabyte per day (that is the equivalent of 250 million DVDs!) and we are all responsible for this growth. Apart from the data that is not made publicly available, every day we like, we tweet, we comment, we share, we blog and we publish information on the web. We do this via our smartphone, tablet, laptop or computer and quite … [Read more...] about Big Data Ownership – Who Owns Your Data?
What is The Effect Of Big Data On Your Privacy?
With every new disruptive technology comes new issues and with Big Data comes privacy issues. As more and more data is collected, stored and analysed by companies, organisations, consumers and governments it is important to have specific Big Data privacy regulations organised; Big Data brings big responsibility. More and more consumers and organisations are getting aware of Big … [Read more...] about What is The Effect Of Big Data On Your Privacy?
How to Define Big Data On Your Balance Sheet
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
