• IBM serves up real-time data for Tennis Australia

  By Hamish Barwick | 17 January, 2012 15:29

  As players fight for the top spot in the Australian Open, behind the scenes, Tennis Australia is tracking their every move using an IBM scoring and analysis tool called SlamTracker.

• Banks encumbered with IT legacy, compliance: Experts

  By Hamish Barwick | 28 November, 2011 12:29

  Australian banks need to upgrade IT infrastructure and data gathering skills if they want to compete with new players such as Google, according to financial IT consultants.

• Startup profile: Kaggle

  By Lisa Banks | 30 August, 2011 12:24

  The future of data analytics could be driven by online communities rather than the work of analysts, if the success of Kaggle is anything to go by.

• Key steps to better data analytics

  By Mark Phillips | 22 August, 2011 08:44

  Organisations with effective data analytics can make stronger business decisions by learning what is working and what is not, what they are doing well, and where they need improvement, according to a new whitepaper by Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA).

• Google invests in firm that tries to predict the future

  By James Niccolai | 04 May, 2010 09:01

  Google has invested in a startup company that claims to be able to predict the future.

• Big data - Part 2

  By Brad Howarth | 20 September, 2011 10:12

  A second technology making a significant impact on solving Big Data problems is in-memory computing, which takes workloads that were traditionally resident on disk-based storage and moves them into main memory. This delivers a performance improvement many times above that which has been possible previously.

• Big data - Part 1

  By Brad Howarth | 19 September, 2011 10:12

  According to IDC’s Digital Universe report the data created globally on an annual basis will leap from 1.2 zettabytes this year to 35 zettabytes in 2020 (one zettabyte is equal to one billion terabytes).

Whitepapers about data analytics

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  Enhancing Decision-Making, Cost-Efficiency, and Profitability With Predictive Analytics

  Today’s managers must always look at the past, present, and future. They need reports on past performance to improve operational efficiency. Business intelligence (BI) platforms such as Information Builders WebFOCUS, are providing a unified decision-support environment where managers can retrieve and analyze data about past, present, and future activities. In this paper, we will discuss the incorporation of predictive modeling capabilities into the WebFOCUS BI platform, and highlight how this advanced functionality can dramatically improve decision-making, thus reducing risk and costs while increasing revenue and profits.