The Internet of Things will connect billions of devices with each other and the Internet, but who would have thought that this would also involve our beer bottles? Well, Heineken brings sensors to a beer bottle that can dance to the rhythm of music. Talking about innovation. But thats not all how Heineken interacts with its customers in an innovative way using the latest … [Read more...] about How Heineken Interacts With Customers Using Big Data
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Gartner Tempers The Expectations Of Big Data
Gartner just released the new Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies of 2013 and one of the remarkable items on this year's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies is that Gartner tones down the expectations of big data. In the 2012 edition of the Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, Gartner predicted that it would take 2-5 years before big data would reach the plateau of … [Read more...] about Gartner Tempers The Expectations Of Big Data
How M2M Data Will Dominate The Big Data Era
Machine-to-Machine data is likely to increase drastically in the coming years. More and more applications are being equipped with sensors that can monitor and measure many different variables that will create vast amounts of data. M2M data is growing and 71% of companies survey by a ZDNet survey say that M2M is about developing new business opportunities. The same research also … [Read more...] about How M2M Data Will Dominate The Big Data Era
Why The 3V’s Are Not Sufficient To Describe Big Data
It is generally accepted that big data can be explained according to three Vs: Velocity, Variety and Volume. In a 2001 research report, META Group (now Gartner) analyst Doug Laney defined big data as being three-dimensional, i.e. increasing volume (amount of data), velocity (speed of data in and out), and variety (range of data types and sources). Later in 2012 Gartner updated … [Read more...] about Why The 3V’s Are Not Sufficient To Describe Big Data
An Extensive Glossary Of Big Data Terminology
Big data comes with a lot of new terminology that is sometimes hard to understand. Therefore we have created an extensive Big Data glossary that should give some insights. Some of the definitions refer to a corresponding blog post. Of course this big data glossary is not 100% complete, so please let us know if there are missing terminology that you would like to see … [Read more...] about An Extensive Glossary Of Big Data Terminology
