Big Data Analytics Goes Hollywood
A movie theater used to receive a film reel from a distributor and display the title for weeks until the next reel rolled into town. A hit movie’s name might remain on the marquee for a couple of months. Since…
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Workday Venture Fund Focuses on Machine Learning, Data Science
Workday decided to put its money where its mouth is. The provider of cloud finance and human resources apps, which late last year announced a suite of software that it said leveraged data science and machine learning methods, has launched…
Cutting through Internet of Things Hype
The early buzz around the Internet of Things (IoT) included breathless accounts of refrigerators that could alert you that your milk was about to go bad and when you should reorder eggs or other staples. Why go to all that…
Banking on Chief Data Officers
Gartner has predicted that 25 percent of organizations will employ chief data officers (CDOs) by 2017. The figure will be higher, 50 percent, in heavily regulated industries like banking and insurance, the research firm believes. The financial services industry has…
IoT in the Sky
The Internet of Things (IoT) offers the potential to create new business models, streamline business processes and reduce costs in industries ranging from bioresearch to petroleum production. One industry ripe for IoT-driven improvement is aviation. A McKinsey Global Institute report…
Stop Talking about Data: Value Lies in Information
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates I’m about to make a statement that, at the surface, will seem contrarian for someone who lives and breathes all types of enterprise data as part of what they do. Here it goes: The majority…
Metanautix Enables Software-Defined Data Marts
We’ve heard a lot about software-defined storage and software-defined data centers, but Big Data analytics startup Metanautix has made it possible for organizations to build software-defined data marts using its Quest 2.0 software. According to the company, the product helps…
Making Government Data Less of a Disaster
Anyone working in the accounts department or who owns a small business knows about the administrative practices of the IRS. Countless letters are generated, penalties are seemingly assessed arbitrarily, and tax returns and other documents get lost. The agency is…
Startup Spotlight: Interana’s Self-Service Data Analytics
“Shared annoyance” inspired the founders of Menlo Park, Calif.-based startup Interana to build a business. “The idea that people are out there and cannot find things in their data drives us crazy,” said Ann Johnson, Interana’s CEO. “We want everyone…
Embedded Analytics: Sky’s the Limit, but So Is Cost
Business leaders are impatient for data that can yield game-changing insights, and they’re well aware that enterprise applications generate rich stores of it. That’s pushing more organizations to seek out embedded data analytics tools, a trend experts say will empower…