At the beginning of June, I was at the Gartner CIO & IT Executive Summit in Berlin. It was an interesting event to attend in terms of the advice given to the CIOs at the event, how to deal with the “digital industrial revolution” and how to support the CEO’s top business priorities.From the Gartner survey, a CEO’s top five […]
Big data is underused in capital marketsMost capital markets firms are still not using big data and even those that do often lack a concerted strategy, according to a new report commissioned by Thomson Reuters.The survey, which was carried out by analyst firm Aite, reported that only 5% of the 423 firms contacted felt willing or able to talk about […]
It’s not new news that the USPS is going through an immensely difficult transitional period at this point in time. Stamp prices are continually on the rise, Saturday delivery was on the verge of being canceled, and office closures and layoffs are occurring around the country. Much of the difficulties come from an increasingly competitive marketplace that’s cutting into the […]
This week in DevOps shows big data and and DevOps are two of the latest IT trends to intersect–and just as with BI and big data, they unlock new potential for organizations when leveraged together.XpoLog continues to build log analytics software for applications on a variety of infrastructures in DevOps and production support using Hadoop. GigaSpaces Technologies continues to innovate […]
Big data has emerged as a big trend over the last several years, but as an area it has remained ill-defined and focused for the most part on data scientists, while ignoring business users. Adatao wants to change that by offering a solution that has something for both parties and a collaboration environment that lets them work together in one tool -and […]
August 7, 2014Great feature on Asystec in this week’s Business and Finance magazine, read the full article here:http://businessandfinance.com/ones-to-watch-july-2014/Asystec Big Data Analytics Institute – 3 day courseAsystec, in collaboration with Persontyle and Eiura, are hosting a 3 day bootcamp in DCU from the 18th – 20th of August 2014. This bootcamp will be a fast paced, hands-on introduction to predictive modelling […]
Intraday Movers: Nabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR), Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE:IRM), YY Inc (ADR) (NASDAQ:YY), Rackspace Hosting, Inc. (NYSE:RAX)Posted by: NelsonNabors Industries Ltd. (NYSE:NBR) revealed that its Board of Directors has approved a 50% increase in the Company’s quarterly cash dividend. A dividend of $0.06 per common share will be paid on September 30, 2014, to shareholders of record at the […]
Highlights from the presentations by Big Data leaders from TD Bank, Public Health Ontario and First Nations Education Steering Committee on day 1 of Big Data Innovation Summit 2014 in Toronto, Canada. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 6, 2014.As many organizations are now working with unmanageably large data sets, the importance of using and maintaining an analytics platform which can cope […]
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The startup aims to help better understand how a stock market really functions through a “sentiment index”; wishes to garner 1M users by the end of the yearPlaying the Chinese stock market can be likened to entering a battlefield with a blindfold over one’s eyes, even if the player is a native. For one, the aforementioned war zone is swarmed with retail […]
