TREND #10: POSITION BIG DATA TECHNOLOGIES TO ENABLE THE EVERYDAY USE OF DATA SCIENCE The Internet of Things (IoT) has been growing significantly as consumers and businesses recognize the benefits of connecting devices to the Internet. Gartner, Inc. forecasts that there will be 25 billion “connected things” by 2020. Healthcare organizations are also beginning to […]
Posts Tagged ‘Big Data’
Financial services firms challenged in using data to serve customers
“Retailers are light years ahead of Wall Street in analyzing their data to find out what their customers want,” said to Peter Giordano, managing director at Oppenheimer & Co. “Instead of analyzing customer data, the industry still relies on salespeople, relationships and actual trades to tell us what clients want.” Big data might be a […]
The End of IT?
A few years ago Adrian Cockcroft, cloud architect at Netflix at the time, posted this blog which caused quite a stir among the IT community. It described how Netflix had almost done away with DevOps (or even plain Ops) using the cloud (AWS in this case) to come up with yet another new IT buzzword called NoOps. Many […]
Innovations in Digital Marketing for Personalization at OOW15
“Infinite choice is paralyzing, and exhausting to the human psyche,” said Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice. This concept is what drives the need to personalize content and web sites. Craig Macdonald presented this session on personalization at Oracle OpenWorld. Personalization starts with recognition – you have to have customer insight to really recognize […]
Cortana Analytics and Information Management
In previous posts I’ve provided an introduction to Microsoft’s cloud-based Cortana Analytics Suite, and we’ve looked at what data and event ingest capability it provides. This time, I want to shed some light on what happens after Ingest. Where do you land the data so that you can work to transform it into actionable intelligence? […]
Oracle’s Big Data Discovery in the Cloud
Larry Ellison ends his welcome keynote at Oracle Open World on Sunday evening with Big Data. He announces 2 new cloud services from Oracle related to big data: 1. Big Data Preparation: A cloud product that serves to prepare, repair, enrich, govern and publish data before its ready for analysis. For instance if you are […]
Oracle Product Announcements at OOW15
In his welcome keynote on Sunday evening, Larry Ellison announces a set of new Oracle Products. The overall focus is the Cloud. Here is a summary of the new product announcements: 1. 2 new oracle cloud apps: Manufacturing and E-commerce in the cloud 2. New tool to build apps and easily extend any Oracle SaaS […]
Intel Data Center Strategies at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
Intel’s CEO Brian Krzanich defined four areas of focus for their enterprise data center efforts. These are important areas for Oracle and Intel to get ahead of the market because of the exploding cloud and data landscape. Make it Easy The cloud will deliver great benefits, but why is it taking so long to transition […]
Perficient honored with top IBM Analytics Award at Insight
Saturday evening, at the start of IBM’s Insight conference, Perficient was presented with the Worldwide Analytics Business Partner of the Year award. This award encompasses all solutions under IBM’s Analytics software brands, including Business Analytics, Enterprise Content Management, Information Management, Big Data and Watson. We’re thrilled that IBM continues to recognize our significant investment and […]
Predictive Analytics: Higher Ed’s Moneyball?
Yes, I admit it. I listen to NPR most evenings. I suppose I prefer my news read to me by people speaking softly very close into the microphone. Tonight on NPR’s All Things Considered I listened to the latest installment in their Ideas series which explores innovation in education. Neal Phillips, English professor at Valencia College […]
Perficient at IBM Insight 2015
IBM Insight, the premier big data and analytics user conference, is quickly approaching and we’re excited to connect with you at the event. Perficient is proud to be a Gold Plus Sponsor of IBM Insight 2015, which is being held October 25-29 in Las Vegas. Visit us at booth #751 in the EXPO Hall, where […]
Introducing Microsoft’s Cortana Analytics Suite
As far back as this year’s Ignite event, Microsoft has been mentioning “Cortana Analytics” by name. But at the first-ever Cortana Analytics Workshop in Redmond this past Sept 10 and 11, they unveiled a bigger offering and vision linking their current slate of cloud-based data platform tools. It’s known that Microsoft has been using Big […]