If you’re attending the Digital Media Summit (DMS), “The CEO Conference” today in NYC, and you’re interested in learning more about “Big Data”, you won’t want to miss the “Big Data: Solutions Beyond the Hype” panel that Andy Monfried is moderating.Starting at 11:15am, Andy (Lotame’s Founder & CEO), will be joined by a panel of experts including:Dana Hayes, Acxiom
Tad Martin, […]
According to McKinsey, companies who miss big data opportunities of today will miss the next frontier of innovation, competition, and productivity. To back up these assertions, leading business schools and corporate thought leaders also point out examples and the opportunities at hand. Even with all the buzz, many companies and executives still remain suspicious or even unclear about their ability […]
Peter Drucker and the Big Data RevolutionRick WartzmanIn his latest column for Forbes online, Drucker Institute Executive Director Rick Wartzman writes about the growing ability of businesses to harness Big Data.Although ever more data is being generated by a host of new technologies, Wartzman writes, “this surfeit of information is not simply piling up, like grain in a silo. It is being carefully sifted […]
Chapel Hill, NC – A new collaboration called the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) aims to make North Carolina a national hub for data-intensive business and data science research and education, a move that will help develop a national strategy to ensure U.S. leadership in the data-driven global economy.The consortium, launched at RENCI, the Renaissance Computing Institute at the […]
Print PDFWith 4.602 hotels across the globe and 675.982 hotel rooms, the InterContinental Hotel Group is collecting massive amounts of data across its seven brands. Since a few years, IHG has embraced the use of advanced analytics. They moved from a structured dataset with about 50 variables in it to a big data solution analysing both unstructured and structured data […]
Print PDFHow do you keep track of 10.000s of customer touch points a day, divided over 8.300 locations in 146 countries? Hertz used to do this by manually registering customer satisfaction via paper surveys that would take weeks to analyse. Whenever action was needed, it usually was too late and a customer was lost. Using Big Data they managed to […]
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Acquisition activity to Big Data also increasing with 2012 seeing 20 exits including 3 IPOs. Big Data investment has been gaining momentum seeing nearly $5 billion of funding over the last five years. 2012 was the biggest year of deals and saw YoY growth of 19.5% over 2011. The graph below highlights the five-year financing trend to Big Data companies.To receive […]
Print PDFTelecom organisations are known from collecting massive amounts of data. Everything that customers are doing is registered: how long and when people call, direct messaging peaks, internet usage and so on. These are just some of the metrics being captured and if you have 33 million customers, as T-Mobile USA does, we are talking serious big data. Strangely enough, […]
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Michael Carney
Michael Carney has spent his career exploring the world of early stage technology as an investor and entrepreneur and has participated in building companies in multiple countries within North and South America and Asia. Ultimately, he is an enthusiast of all things shiny and electronic and […]
