For organisations small and large, local or multinational, developing a big data strategy is a difficult and time-consuming exercise. In fact, big data projects typically take 18 months to finish. Developing the business case and a Big Data proof of concept is only the beginning of such a long road, but nevertheless a very important one. Where do you start, what aspects are … [Read more...] about How To Create The Business Case To Start With a Big Data Proof of Concept
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Five Key Big Data Challenges Companies Need To Overcome When Developing A Big Data Strategy
Developing a Big Data strategy for your organisations is not a simple task. It will take perseverance, trial and error and a cultural change to become a truly data-driven, information-centric organisation. For a lot of organisations, Big Data is still difficult to understand (27% of companies surveyed in a recent survey by Jaspersoft), while 20% of the organisations do not see … [Read more...] about Five Key Big Data Challenges Companies Need To Overcome When Developing A Big Data Strategy
Think Bigger – Developing A Successful Big Data Strategy For Your Business
Big datathe enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitizedis revolutionizing business. Organisations can use all this data to glean valuable insight into how best to serve their customers. Big Data is drastically changing business, with companies that have implemented a Big Data strategy financially … [Read more...] about Think Bigger – Developing A Successful Big Data Strategy For Your Business
How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
Gartners definition of big data dates back from 2001, when Doug Laney the 7 Vs) that are important for organizations to take into account when developing a big data strategy. However, the original definition of big data suggests that organisations can only develop a big data strategy if they have vast volumes, terabytes or more, of data. IDC even defines big data projects as … [Read more...] about How Small Data Can Also Be Big Data
How Big Data Can Help The Developing World Beat Poverty
The amount of data created is not only growing in the developed world, also the developing world is experiencing rapid growth in data creation. However, a large part of the data created in the developing world has a different origin than in the rest of the world: the developing world is progressing rapidly to the mobile era and is largely skipping the desktop and wired era. … [Read more...] about How Big Data Can Help The Developing World Beat Poverty
