Having a lot of data pouring into your organisation is one thing, being able to store it, analyse it and visualize it in real-time is a whole different ball game. More and more organisation want to have real-time insights in order to fully understand what is going on within their organisation. What are the advantages ofReal-Time Big Data Analytics and what are the challenges … [Read more...] about The Advantages and Disadvantages Of Real-Time Big Data Analytics
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Five Key Characteristics Of Companies Using Big Data
Data pours into organisations from almost every angle imaginable. Small and Medium Sized Enterprises can easily collect gigabytes of data per day, startups can effortlessly reach terabytes of data per day and online organisations can even generate petabytes of data per day without any problem. However, simply having massive amounts of data is not enough to become an … [Read more...] about Five Key Characteristics Of Companies Using Big Data
Trucking Company US Xpress Drives Efficiency With Big Data
How do you make a snapshot of a large trucking company to understand what is going on in the organisation? By combining 900 different data elements from 10.000s trucking systems such as sensors for petrol usages, tyres, brakes, engine operations, geo-spatial data and driver comments across a fleet of 8.000 tractors and 22.000 trailers into one Hadoop Database and analyse it in … [Read more...] about Trucking Company US Xpress Drives Efficiency With Big Data
Rolls Royce Shifts In Higher Gear With Big Data
Rolls Royce, the engine manufacturer and not the car manufacture, takes big data to a higher gear with their Rolls-Royce Engine Health Monitoring Unit. All engines of Rolls Royce, be it for aircrafts, helicopters or ships, are equipped with sensors that collect data from different components, systems or sub-systems within the engines. This information is analysed by algorithms … [Read more...] about Rolls Royce Shifts In Higher Gear With Big Data
How To Become An Information-Centric Organisation
How to truly incorporate Big Data at the heart of your company and to move from a product-centric organisation to an information-centric organisation, where decisions are based on hard data and extensive analyses. Where do you start, how do you convince your CEO and which questions do you need to ask? An IBM study revealed that at the moment 71% of the organisations are not … [Read more...] about How To Become An Information-Centric Organisation