Big data
Big Data, unleashing the potential of company archives
Whatever their size or business sector, enterprises are required to preserve certain documents for a given period. But how is Big Data changing document archiving?
Big Data Blog Series: Part 1, Defining Big Data
The Big Data blog series will explore the definitions of Big Data, business benefits, requirements & readiness, tools & technologies, and overarching success tips with risk mitigation. Big data can deliver transformational benefits and enable enterprises to outperform their competitors by 20% in each financial metric. Sound attractive? Yet, ask someone close to you to…
VIDEO: Soccer Player Predicted As Top Rising Star – Back In November
Did you know that Big Data can help us predict who the future soccer stars will be? This is precisely what happened in Riyad Mahrez’s case, PFA Player of the Year, who has conquered the English Premier League with Leicester City. During last year’s Big Data Week Conference in London, Malta-based entrepreneur Valery Bollier correctly…
Data science hacka-what? Hackathon!
The organization of a hackathon is increasingly common and is involved in business innovation. Don’t worry: it is not about hacking our customer servers!
How Big Data is Changing the World of (Daily Fantasy) Football
Did you know that athletes are not only monitored by cameras on stadiums, but also by many quirky devices such as accelerometers, heart rate sensors and even local GPS-like systems? Indeed, Big Data and modern technologies are currently revolutionizing sports and even powering the Daily Fantasy Football industry. Football clubs, media outlets and fans around the world…
Digital transformation, data science and intrapreneurship culture
It’s a fact: digital transformation is here and certainly more than a hype term. The number of neologisms and new concepts attests it: uberization, data scientist, innovation labs, Chief Data/Digital Officer, Agile Marketing, growth hacker… In many aspects, old concepts do only have an evolution, natural considered the context: Data science? I used to study…
[Video] Digital Transformation at a glimpse
The words Digital and Big Data, are no more just concepts and ideas but are omnipresent in all scenarios of personal and professional life. Here is a short video presentation created by Orange Business that portrays the changes and effects brought about by new technologies in everyday life. Observations from the video clip An active man,…
Big Data: The Skill vs. Luck Mystery in Fantasy Sports
Daily Fantasy Sports (DFS) is a relatively new phenomenon. Some say it’s definitely a game of skill, others claim it’s just another form of gambling and shouldn’t be legal. DFS, ”the next big thing” is taking North America by storm and slowly knocking on Europe’s doors. The way it works is simple: sports lovers select…
Big Data: uses the “Next Best Thing” for data collection
In 2012, IDC, a global leader in the field of IT and telecoms and BI, published a study called “THE DIGITAL UNIVERSE IN 2020: Big Data, Bigger Digital Shadows, and Biggest Growth in the Far East” in which he highlighted the understanding of the uses of Digital by 2020 CIOs and users. Here are the…
Retail: Personalized Services to Generate Customer Confidence
In recent years, the Internet and e-commerce have revolutionized the retail market. Beyond the ease of buying or consulting advice from other consumers, e-commerce has mainly changed the way of capturing information about the purchasing process of a customer on a custom basis. Retail and customer knowledge, boosted by e-commerce For example, the e-commerce buying…
Business Intelligence versus Big Data: Intelligent Information
This article addresses choosing between the use of Business Intelligence technologies or Big Data for processing information.
Big Data Leads Companies into a New Era
The world of Business is beginning to realize the potential of an inexhaustible commodity that has been neglected until now: the Big Data.
Healthcare and Big Data
Over the last decade, pharmaceutical companies have been aggregating years of research and development data into medical databases, while in the USA at least, there have been many government dollars put into standardizing electronic medical records. The US government and other stakeholders have also been looking to utilize the significant volumes of health-related information, including…
Driving the Customer Experience with Big Data
Having worked in technology and with technologists for the past twenty years, I find myself every now and then getting caught up with the latest technology. Have I downloaded the latest mobile application? Do I want to upgrade to the latest version? Shall I store my data in the cloud? In meeting after meeting, when…