Caesars Entertainment, known from the numerous luxurious hotels and casinos in among others Las Vegas, has become a data-driven organisation where data drives decision-making. Due to the collection of massive amounts of data, Caesars is able to cultivate customer loyalty and surprise guests with free gifts after, for example, a bad day at the casino. Their data-driven strategy … [Read more...] about Caesars Entertainment Trusts Big Data More Than Gambling
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Big Data Startup Treparel Is a Big Data Text Analytics Provider
Company Treparel Address Delftechpark 26, 2628XH Delft, The Netherlands Founders Dr. Anton Heijs Founded 2006 Funding 1 million Employees 10 Website www.Treparel.com Rating 6 bits Treparel is a big data text analytics and visualization software provider. They have developed the KMX platform (Knowing, Mapping and Exploration) that analyses and visualizes … [Read more...] about Big Data Startup Treparel Is a Big Data Text Analytics Provider
The Rise Of The Quantified-Self; And What It Means For Your Organisation
The quantified-self is a movement that has been around since the 1970s but only recently it took off due to the internet of things and the availability of monitoring devices that connect to smartphones. Todays smartphones carry a vast amount of all sorts of sensors that can track almost anything. The quantified-self is Big Data for consumers and consumers are collecting massive … [Read more...] about The Rise Of The Quantified-Self; And What It Means For Your Organisation
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