There is a good chance that your organisations will not exist anymore in 10-15 years from now, if you do not start developing a big data strategy now or in the coming years. However, developing a big data strategy is not easy. A big data strategy requires a data-driven, information-centric culture instead of a culture where decisions are based on raw estimates or gut feeling. … [Read more...] about Five Preconditions To Adhere To When Developing A Big Data Strategy
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The Control of Personal Data by Large Powerful Corporations
Nicholas Carr, Pulitzer Prize Finalist for his book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, discusses the dangers that occur when large companies such as Twitter, Facebook and Google own the majority of personal data. … [Read more...] about The Control of Personal Data by Large Powerful Corporations
Cloudant Offers a Distributed Database-as-a-Service Solution
Company Cloudant Address 129 South Street Boston, MA, 02111 USA Founders Adam Kocoloski, Michael Miller & Alan Hoffman Founded May 2008 Funding $ 16.25 million Employees 70 Website www.Cloudant.com/ Rating 8 bits  Cloudant is a data store that offers a distributed Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) solution to organisations that do require NoSQL databases but … [Read more...] about Cloudant Offers a Distributed Database-as-a-Service Solution
How Trust Could Drive Trillions of Dollars With Big Consumer Data
Without being aware of it, consumers create massive amounts of consumer data during their daily activities. This massive data deluge helps organisations to better understand their business and to better target those consumers with personalized offers, experiences and products. For both organisations and consumers it is important to be aware of when and where all that data is … [Read more...] about How Trust Could Drive Trillions of Dollars With Big Consumer Data
How The Education Industry Should Start Using Big Data
Richard Culatta, Director, Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education, and Elliott Masie discuss the lack of data in the learning field and implications of big data for the Education Industry and how big data can improve the learning experience. How to personalize learning using big data while at the same time respecting ones privacy. … [Read more...] about How The Education Industry Should Start Using Big Data
