Leverage your data to drive business innovation, improve efficiency and meet customer expectations. Data analytics is no longer restricted to the realm of technology in insurance. Today it is a business imperative. As well as providing solutions to long-standing business challenges, big data and analytics offers the power to transform fraud detection, underwriting, pricing … [Read more...] about Big Data Analytics for Insurance
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Why You Should Embrace Analytic Athleticism
With todays rapidly changing mix of analytic techniques, toolsets, and platforms, its difficult for any organization to be confident it is keeping its analytic workforce and skillsets up to date. I often have clients ask if they need to consider turning over a large portion of their analytics organization in order to adapt to these changes. I firmly believe that this is usually … [Read more...] about Why You Should Embrace Analytic Athleticism
Six Pitfalls to Avoid When Becoming a Data Driven Enterprise
With Big Data Survey, an initiative of Big Data Expo and GoDataDriven, midway through, it is time for an interim analysis of the score on the door. In this article we share 6 pitfalls to avoid when becoming a data driven enterprise. Hundreds of organizations from a wide variety have already shared their insights. Around 55 per cent of the participants work at organizations of … [Read more...] about Six Pitfalls to Avoid When Becoming a Data Driven Enterprise
Bag Phones, Day Planners and Big Data
Is greatness, complacency, or nostalgia holding your IT strategy back and giving your competition an edge? What used to be great may now be holding you back has never been more true in the IT world, especially with how data is captured, managed, used, and maintained. If you are thinking, Big Data is not for you, we love our mainframe, this is for you. Hang in there while I step … [Read more...] about Bag Phones, Day Planners and Big Data
Top Reasons of Hadoop – Big Data Project Failures
There are multiple reasons why a big data projects fail: Analysis Failures Not asking any questions pertaining to the data Back in 2008, Google started predicting the trend of flu, and declared the outbreak of an epidemic, weeks before the CDC. Again, a few years later, Google reported an over-approximated doctor visits report, which was inflated by at least 50%. Internet … [Read more...] about Top Reasons of Hadoop – Big Data Project Failures
