E-retail is without a doubt growing rapidly in the United States as well as on a global level. E-commerce sales in 2013 accounted for 5.8 percent of total sales in the US, according to the US Census Bureau. And worldwide business-to-consumer (B2C) ecommerce sales will increase by 20.1% in 2014 to reach $1.500 trillion.With this tremendous growth in online shopping across the … [Read more...] about What E-Retailers Need to Know About Data Analytics
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Opportunities At The Intersection of Media, Ecommerce and Big Data
At Guardian's Changing Media Summit 2014, Tesco group chief executive Philip Clarke discusses the opportunities that exist at the intersection of media, ecommerce and big data. As the second largest retailer in the world, Tesco is moving  in the direction of becoming a media and technology company and the leading multi-channel retailer. The objective of Tesco is to put the … [Read more...] about Opportunities At The Intersection of Media, Ecommerce and Big Data
Data From Smart Energy Grids Can Provide Great Insights – Video
We are living in transformative times where everything becomes digitized, including the energy grid. Smart energy grids generate massive amount of data that provide insights previously unknown to consumers, organisations and governments. These insights provide information about the state of the grid, the pricing of the energy and the individual energy consumption of different … [Read more...] about Data From Smart Energy Grids Can Provide Great Insights – Video
If Login Data Is Gold, Social Login Data Is Platinum
#ICYMI, cookies are on their way out. As far as tracking our user actions across the Internet, our digital diet has long been restricted by the cookies inability to follow users across platforms, devices and app to browser interactions making the cookie obsolete. Plus, cookies can often cross the line when it comes to user privacy. In the cookies place is login data, which, … [Read more...] about If Login Data Is Gold, Social Login Data Is Platinum
How The Insurance Industry Should Leverage Big Data – Video
The Insurance Industry generates vast amounts of data, from legacy systems, call centre dialogues to customer records and it is multiplying rapidly. It is time for the insurance companies to start getting access to all this available data and start analysing it. In this video, Laura Hay - National Leader Insurance KPMG, talks about the massive potential of Big Data, Mobile and … [Read more...] about How The Insurance Industry Should Leverage Big Data – Video