• CIOs see potential for innovation, but lack delivery: survey

  By Rebecca Merrett | 22 May, 2013 09:00

  There are only a few CIOs who are delivering on their innovation initiatives in their organisations, with the majority struggling to find the time and resources to make it happen, according to Harvey Nash’s 2013 global CIO survey.

• SAP to crunch and sell carriers' data on mobile use

  By Stephen Lawson | 21 May, 2013 13:09

  Mobile operators collect huge amounts of data about how their subscribers use mobile data, and that information is starting to go on sale as targeted intelligence that enterprises can use to better reach consumers.

• 5 reasons to move to big data (and 1 reason why it won't be easy)

  By Reda Chouffani | 21 May, 2013 12:58

  Companies of all sizes are beginning to reap the benefits of data analytics technology. If you're not up to speed yet, here are five ways that big data can benefit your business--and one precaution that may well thwart your big data plans.

• A sensible approach to big data

  By Duncan Angove, president, Infor | 20 May, 2013 20:33

  Big data is getting a lot of coverage of late and with good reason. We live in a world that is fast becoming overwhelmed by information. Ninety percent of the world's data was created in just the last two years. From software applications and social media to Internet search results and the ever-present email, the rate of data creation is growing exponentially with no signs of slowing.

• BT Financial embraces BI to better understand customers

  By Adam Bender | 17 May, 2013 12:08

  BT Financial Group has tapped business intelligence (BI) software from QlikView to provide insights on how to grow and retain customers for its financial advice business.

• 6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

  By Brian Eastwood | 23 April, 2013 13:20

  Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.

• Big Data, Cheap Storage Bring In-Memory Analytics Into Spotlight

  By Allen Bernard | 06 December, 2012 14:05

  In-memory analytics, like virtualization and the cloud, is an old idea that's been given new life. In this case, the combination of big data, inexpensive commodity storage and parallel processing make it possible to analyze terabytes of data without slowing systems to a crawl.

• Tech hotshots: The rise of the dataviz expert

  By Tam Harbert | 23 May, 2013 11:14

  As analytics become more ingrained in corporations, data visualizers are the new go-to experts in demand -- but do they work for IT or give IT its marching orders?

• 5 strategic tips for avoiding a big data bust

  By Bob Violino | 01 April, 2013 10:08

  Failed expectations, increased costs, unnecessary legal risks -- going blind into a big data project doesn’t pay

• Does Big Data spell the end of business intelligence as we know it?

  By Bernard Golden | 26 March, 2013 22:26

  Traditional BI requires human input to decide what correlated factors to query. As predictive data analytics gets increasingly powerful, the algorithms do the deciding. That spells the end of BI as columnist Bernard Golden knows it - and he doesn't feel fine about it.

• Big Data success is all in the analysis

  By Rob Enderle | 22 March, 2013 12:37

  IT executives are starting to realize that there's little value in big data without robust analytics systems that can crunch the numbers and give key decision makers (read: their bosses) easy-to-digest information. With so few real solutions on the market, though, this is easier said than done.

• Applying Big Data approaches to information security a challenge

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 28 February, 2013 11:10

  Applying Big Data approaches to information security can help enterprises build better situational awareness capabilities, but implementation could prove to be a major challenge, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2013 being held here this week.

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