When I say pay, I am talking about over $3 billion this year alone. This is expected to hit nearly $50 billion by 2018*. Where is all this money coming from? There are four main uses of data to gain a benefit: advertising, marketing, product development and data management itself yes, money is even made from managing the information! With the growing number of data entry points … [Read more...] about How To Make Data Pay You!
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How Much Should Business Intelligence Cost?
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The Big Data Cold Feet Syndrome
With all the hype around big data, it sometime seems that everyone is doing it. But the truth is that implementing big data analytics can be almost as difficult as it is potentially profitable. The secret about big data is out, and the race to become a data-driven company is on. Management consultant companies are in overdrive to get their clients working on data analytic … [Read more...] about The Big Data Cold Feet Syndrome
How to Leverage Big Data to Increase ROI
Big data is a common term being thrown around in the world of business today. However, there are few companies that are actually using big data in order to increase ROI. Over the next couple of years, there will be more options than ever when it comes to using big data to drive the most important results in a business. Many company leaders are unsure of how to use big data to … [Read more...] about How to Leverage Big Data to Increase ROI
7 Best Practices How Big Data Can Help the Air Force
In 1952, when the NSA was founded, they quickly employed thousands of cryptologists to deal with the massive amounts of data that was flowing into the organisation. Since then, governments from around the world have been analysing large streams of data. Therefore, it does not come as a surprise, that the armed forces have also been using data, and more lately big data, to … [Read more...] about 7 Best Practices How Big Data Can Help the Air Force