The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) is a global cable and satellite television channel based in the United States. It is owned by The Walt Disney Company (80%) and the Hearst Corporation (20%). As of August 2013, almost 98 million American households receive ESPN. Each of these households pays $ 5 a month, totaling around $ 6 billion in annual revenue, … [Read more...] about Entertainment Network ESPN Is Wins The Game With Big Data
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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
How To Develop A Big Data Strategy To Outperform Your Competitors
A Big Data study from 2013 by Tata Consulting Services showed that 47% of the 1217 firms surveyed had not yet undertaken a Big Data initiative. A similar research project by the SAS Institute in 2013 revealed that 21% of the 339 companies questioned did not know enough about Big Data and 15%of the organisations did not understand the benefits of Big Data. Several other surveys … [Read more...] about How To Develop A Big Data Strategy To Outperform Your Competitors
Mining the Field of Big Data Strategies
More and more organisations understand by now the need for a big data platform, but they have difficulties actually developing and implementing a big data strategy. John Akred, CTO of Silicon Valley Data Science, discusses how companies can become more data-driven companies and how they should develop a big data strategy. Nowadays, the problem is not so much anymore the … [Read more...] about Mining the Field of Big Data Strategies
How Big Data Analytics Can Optimize your IT And Create Competitive Advantage
In almost any organisation, IT forms the heart of the company. Without the necessary IT present in an organisation, it becomes increasingly difficult to operate on a competitive edge. Having the IT in place is one thing, ensuring that the IT remains operational, is stable and doing what it was designed for in constantly changing circumstances is a different ball-game. In a … [Read more...] about How Big Data Analytics Can Optimize your IT And Create Competitive Advantage
