Amplify 2015 is IBM’s conference for Digital Marketing and Commerce. This is a big year for IBM as they look to take advantage of their cloud capabilities and bring together all of the systems they have purchased over the last few years. Alex Banayan kicked off the opening session talking about how life has changed […]
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LinkedIn Data Integration with Informatica Infographic
For a company like LinkedIn, data is at the core of their business. Externally, subscribers to their network are constantly seeing content updated by the seconds. But what about internally? Their data teams are non-stop behind the scenes working to keep up with all of this rapidly changing data so when their Financial, Planning, & […]
Social Network Analysis in Action – Crime Ring Fraud Detection
This is a continuation of our previous discussion on getting started with Social Network Analysis (SNA). So now that we can do some SNA with NodeXL, how do you now go out and catch the bad guys? Well, remember, SNA is a network of entities. So let’s take auto insurance fraud for example and show […]
Data & Security on Top of the Mind of CIOs
Of the 10 top concerns of CIOs and CTOs, as reported in Janco Associates Annual Review, Consolidation of Legacy Data and Big Data both show up in the Top 5, and have moved up substantially from prior years’ surveys. Furthermore, In Forbes’ Top 10 Strategic CIO Issues For 2015, “Drive Customer-Centric Innovation Throughout Your Organization”, […]
Talking SMAC: 4 Actions Healthcare CIOs Need to Take
The healthcare industry tends to lag behind other industries when it comes to many things, especially the adoption and implementation of new technologies. There are several factors that contribute to this hesitancy, like the need to adhere to strict privacy and security regulations, new initiatives brought on by healthcare reform and consolidation within the industry. […]
Incident Analysis: a use case for Watson Explorer
Earlier this year, we examined how IBM Watson can help healthcare organizations analyze vast quantities of unstructured data to gain quick insights from previously untapped data sources. We found that the content analytics solution, along with IBM’s healthcare tools and accelerators, uncovers valuable intelligence from disparate healthcare data and content, including physician notes, patient surveys, […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service: Data Sync Released & DBaaS Supported
Today Oracle releases Data Sync, a tool that facilitates loading data into the Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS) by offering a variety of capabilities: Loading data from on-premise relational databases or data files into BICS Schema Database Scheduling data load jobs Monitoring data load jobs Sending out email notifications Earlier this week, Oracle has upgraded […]
Big Data and the Skies
Earlier this week, I read a news article about the use of Twitter, or more accurately, the use of data collected from Twitter to prohibit a passenger from boarding a United Airlines flight. Strangely enough, the person banned from the flight was probably among the people who should know the most about cyber-security and perceived […]
Winning the Customer Experience Battle: Three Points to Remember
How Business Intelligence, Digital Transformation and the Cloud Enable the Most Successful New Business Models A few thousand Oracle users, partners, and employees sat (and stood, as necessary) at Mandalay Bay, waiting for that day’s keynote to begin. The CIO of Oracle, Mark Sunday, was scheduled to give us the latest buzz on cloud computing. […]
Building a successful Searchandizing strategy…
What is searchandizing? Obviously search in the context of merchandising. Retailers have taken this technique to a different level. Constant price pressures and competition from online retailing has spurred the innovation in this area both in terms of tools, approach and overall strategy. In the early dot com days several online retailers have built custom […]
Tips on Getting Started with Social Network Analysis in SPSS
Part 1: What is Social Network Analysis and how do I get started quickly? I am going to be sharing with you the path that I took to get myself up to speed on Social Network Analysis (SNA) using SPSS Modeler. If you are new to SNA, or just curious on what SNA is all […]
Oracle BI Cloud Service (BICS): Data Sync for Automated Data Load
In a few days Oracle will release Data Sync, a utility that facilitates the process of loading data from various on-premise sources into BI Cloud Services (BICS). The Data Sync utility comes as an addition to several other already available means of loading data into BICS: data load wizard to upload data from files, SQL […]