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Why Business Strategy Always Trumps Data Analytics
There's a lot of hype in the business communities about data, analytics, cloud technologies, data science, and eCommerce. A cornucopia of jargon that emphasizes data (raw material) and its analytics spinoff (the service). Or is it emphasizing business ? What came first, the chicken or the egg ? It's now easier and more economical than ever to accumulate data, store it, and … [Read more...] about Why Business Strategy Always Trumps Data Analytics
Your Big Data Initiative: Got the budget, Got the skills – What is the Problem?
Whether your business Big Data initiative is funded from within IT, or the business, or a bit of both, if its Big Data, it probably going to have a material influence on your business whether that be driving critical strategic, tactical or operational decisions, eliminating waste, fuelling new innovations through to identifying new markets and business opportunities. All good … [Read more...] about Your Big Data Initiative: Got the budget, Got the skills – What is the Problem?
Big Data: Is Your Business Afraid of Being Left Behind?
As a concept, Big Data is nothing new. It's origins stem from the earliest days of computing when societies (large businesses and governments) started massing vast amounts of data for a range of purposes such as tax collection, research, surveillance or census analysis. Over the last few decades, the combined influences of the internet, collapsing cost of compute and storage … [Read more...] about Big Data: Is Your Business Afraid of Being Left Behind?
All (Big Data) Roads Lead To Your Customers
A large number of enterprise report a high level of inertia around getting started with Big Data. Either they are not sure about the problems that they need to solve using Big Data or they get distracted by the question of which Big Data technology to invest in and less on the business value they should be focusing on. This is often due to a lack of understanding of what … [Read more...] about All (Big Data) Roads Lead To Your Customers
