Almost everyone agrees that the two biggest obstacles standing in the way the full deployment of The IIoT is security and standardization. Security is the most critical issue we are facing. We are all aware of the numerous industrial attacks that are almost becoming common place. New requirements for security, privacy, identity management, and access control need to be … [Read more...] about The Industrial Internet of Things and 5 Goals of the IIC
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What Big Data Can Do for the Legal Industry
Big Data can do a lot for the legal practice, as I described in a previous post. In this interview, Michigan State Associate Professor of Law Daniel Martin Katz speaks about the future of Big Data in the legal field. There are several ways that Big Data can help the legal industry. Ranging from using data to improve client acquisition and retention to using predictive analytics … [Read more...] about What Big Data Can Do for the Legal Industry
How Placemeter’s Real Time Data Source Can Change Marketing As We Know It
Last October a New York based start-up called Placemeter won the Alpha pitch competition at the Dublin Websummit. It seemed like a fair winner considering the team has the potential to disrupt the way that we make daily decisions on what places to visit. Would you still walk for five minutes to the nearest Starbucks if you know beforehand that it will take 20 minutes before you … [Read more...] about How Placemeter’s Real Time Data Source Can Change Marketing As We Know It
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
If Big Data Is The New Oil, The Oil and Gas Industry Knows How To Handle It
The multi-billion dollar oil & gas industry should use big data technologies to optimize processes that enable the collection of vast amounts of data that can be used to provide additional insights, better monitoring and additional revenues. There are ample opportunities for the oil and gas companies to use big data to get more oil or gas out of new or existing wells as … [Read more...] about If Big Data Is The New Oil, The Oil and Gas Industry Knows How To Handle It