Using IBM Social Media Analytics to Improve Your Business
Social Media is an undeniable part of everyday life. With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, social media is available anywhere at pretty much any time. Here are just a few figures that highlight and...
View ArticleBI and Big Data: A Dark Territory
Business Intelligence, and more specifically Big Data, are hot topics in the industry right now due to the vast potential organizations have to benefit from these capabilities. Two key factors include...
View ArticleMobility at Work and the Disruptions it can Cause
We have been hearing all about BYOD for quite some time now and I still find it amazing that there are so many companies who haven’t adopted a BYOD initiative yet. They need to prepare for the upcoming...
View ArticleHP Moonshot Promises Something Big
89%, 80%, 77% and 97% are some really exciting numbers that HP wants you to know about. What do they correspond to? 89% less energy, 80% less space, 77% less cost and 97% less complex. These were the...
View ArticleMove Over Big Data, Here Comes “Ginormous Data!”
Fancy tag lines aside, we have come to an age of data storage like no other in the history of information retrieval. The amount of unstructured data being created on an hourly basis is mind-boggling....
View ArticleMobilizing Your Cloud Data
Let’s face it, large datasets can be overwhelming and intimidating. Just because data begins as an endless shapeless stream of facts and figures, who says it has to stay that way? There are many ways...
View ArticlePredictive Analytics and Healthcare: I Can See the Future
Predictive analytics, otherwise known as data mining or advanced analytics, has become an area of increased interest in many industries. Predictive analytics leverages existing data sets and...
View ArticleHIMSS 2015: Analytics and patient engagement remain key focus of health care...
The HIMSS 2015 conference, noted as the largest health IT event in the industry, was held in Chicago on April 12-16. This year, I had the good fortune to both attend the conference and work in our...
View ArticleEMC World 2015: What’s Trending in Tech
Over 14,000 people from 99 different countries traveled to the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nev. for EMC World 2015 held from May 4 through May 7. EMC World is a premier event for EMC, partners and...
View ArticleBig Data and Predictive Analytics: The New Lifeblood of the Retail Industry?
Businesses live and die by metrics. Everywhere, the sheer volume of data is being examined, reexamined and leveraged. Let’s take a look at one part of the business world – more specifically, the retail...
View ArticleThe Point-of-Sale Experience Can Make (or Break) Your Business
According to David Gosman, CEO of pcAmerica, 26 percent of people will leave a brick-and-mortar store if they are having a bad customer service experience. And of those 26 percent, seven percent of...
View ArticleMicrosoft PowerPivot: Delivering Scalable, Self-Service Data Analytics
As a follow up to my last post on Business Intelligence, which you can find at the below link, I want to dive deeper into the PowerPivot solution from Microsoft. Let’s explore how we can leverage the...
View ArticleUsing IBM Social Media Analytics to Improve Your Business
Social Media is an undeniable part of everyday life. With the pervasiveness of mobile devices, social media is available anywhere at pretty much any time. Here are just a few figures that highlight...
View ArticleTackling Unstructured Data with Data Center Diagnostics
Getting your arms around your unstructured data, servers, virtual machines, storage and SAN fabric has never been more relevant to IT administrators and CIOs. Luckily, there are a few excellent...
View ArticleRetail Data Analytics Transforms Shopping
Today’s customers expect more from retailers than ever before. In the age of always-improving technology, customers want a convenient, seamless shopping experience, whether they’re making their...
View ArticleRetail Data Analytics Transforms Shopping
Today’s customers expect more from retailers than ever before. In the age of always-improving technology, customers want a convenient, seamless shopping experience, whether they’re making their...
View ArticleIBM Watson Makes Data Analytics Elementary
How many times have you or your team members tried to make sense of raw data in a large, ugly Excel spreadsheet, spending hours on that one pivot chart needed for the next quarterly meeting? Times...
View ArticleRegain Control of Your Online Privacy
In a span of 30 years, the average person in the United States has gone from explicitly asking the phone company to not publish their phone number in the phone book to sharing every intimate detail of...
View ArticleWorried About Digital Disruption? Invest in Infrastructure
Organizations in a variety of sectors have watched helplessly in recent years as technology-powered upstarts reinvented the rules of their business. Hotels have lost market share to services such as...
View ArticleHealthcare IoT Demands Smarter “Cloud of Clouds” Strategies
Healthcare providers are considering a growing number of digitally enabled devices that have the potential to dramatically improve clinical care while driving down costs. These devices offer providers...
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