It’s a good day. Our new book, Big Data for Dummies, is being released today and I’m busy working on a Big Data Analytics maturity model at TDWI with Krish Krishnan. Krish, a faculty member at TDWI, is actually presenting some of the model at the TDWI World Conference: Big Data Tipping Point taking place… Continue reading Two Big Data Resources Worth Exploring
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Two Weeks and Counting to Big Data for Dummies
I am excited to announce I’m a co-author of Big Data for Dummies which will be released in mid-April 2013. Here’s the synopsis from Wiley: Find the right big data solution for your business or organization Big data management is one of the major challenges facing business, industry, and not-for-profit organizations. Data sets such as… Continue reading Two Weeks and Counting to Big Data for Dummies
Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics: IBM
Next in my discussion of big data providers is IBM. Big data plays right into IBM’s portfolio of solutions in the information management space. It also dove tails very nicely with the company’s Smarter Planet strategy. Smarter Planet holds the vision of the world as a more interconnected, instrumented, and intelligent place. IBM’s Smarter Cities… Continue reading Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics: IBM
Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 2- SAS
Next up in my discussion on big data providers is SAS. What’s interesting about SAS is that, in many ways, big data analytics is really just an evolution for the company. One of the company’s goals has always been to support complex analytical problem solving. It is well respected by its customers for its ability… Continue reading Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 2- SAS
SAP moves to social media analysis with NetBase partnership
Today, SAP and NetBase announced that SAP will resell NetBase solutions as the SAP® Social Media Analytics application by NetBase. What does this mean? According to the announcement: “SAP Social Media Analytics is a cloud-based solution that is able to process more than 95 million social media posts per day. It uses an advanced natural… Continue reading SAP moves to social media analysis with NetBase partnership
Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 1: Attensity
I am often asked whether it is the vendors or the end users who are driving the Big Data market. I usually reply that both are. There are early adopters of any technology that push the vendors to evolve their own products and services. The vendors then show other companies what can be done with… Continue reading Four Vendor Views on Big Data and Big Data Analytics Part 1: Attensity
The Inaugural Hurwitz & Associates Predictive Analytics Victory Index is complete!
For more years than I like to admit, I have been focused on the importance of managing data so that it helps companies anticipate changes and therefore be prepared to take proactive action. Therefore, as I watched the market for predictive analytics really emerge I thought it was important to provide customers with a holistic… Continue reading The Inaugural Hurwitz & Associates Predictive Analytics Victory Index is complete!
Informatica announces 9.1 and puts stake in the ground around big data
Earlier this week, Informatica announced the release of the Informatica 9.1 Platform for Big Data. The company joins other data centric vendors such as EMC and IBM by putting its stake in the ground around the hot topic of Big Data. Informatica defines Big Data as, “all data, including both transaction and interaction data, in… Continue reading Informatica announces 9.1 and puts stake in the ground around big data
EMC and Big Data- Observations from EMC World 2011
I attended EMC’s User Conference last week in Las Vegas. The theme of the event was Big Data meets the Cloud. So, what’s going on with Big Data and EMC? Does this new strategy make sense? EMC acquired Greenplum in 2010. At the time EMC described Greenplum as a “shared nothing, massively parallel processing (MPP)… Continue reading EMC and Big Data- Observations from EMC World 2011
Five vendors committed to content analytics for ECM
In 2007, Hurwitz & Associates fielded one of the first market studies on text analytics. At that time, text analytics was considered to be more of a natural extension to a business intelligence system than a content management system. However, in that study, we asked respondents who were planning to use the software, whether they… Continue reading Five vendors committed to content analytics for ECM
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