Think small for big data services
If there is one consistent theme of the big data bubble, it is that most organisations do not have the skills required to capitalise on the opportunity.
This goes for both technical and applied skills. Hadoop is the standout technology platform ...
Big Data and Analytics Must Be Properly Matched
Those who have any reasonable familiarity with the modern tech sector will fully understand the difference between big data and analytics. However, you might be surprised how many people think that the latter naturally follows the former – that as ...
Improving Customer Service with Big Data
Customer service is key for ecommerce businesses. If retailers could improve customer service while also reducing its cost, they would likely do it. Big data can help achieve this goal in the following four areas.
1. Website Is Broken
This is the ...
Sizing The Big Data Market-No One Has A Clue
Forget all the Big Data numbers you've seen. The reality is that no one has a clue how much Big Data adoption there is, because few actually know what Big Data means.
Ian Bertram, managing vice president at Gartner, points this ...
Visualization-The Simple Way to Simplify Big Data
Data visualization has an amazing ability to make the complex simple, and the latest tools can do much more than give everyone the same view of data. It’s only through visualization that we can take something as abstract as symbols ...
How Big Data Will Change the World
Big Data is THE biggest buzzword around at the moment, and I guess it makes sense to start my new ‘The Big Data Guru’ column with a post that goes back to basics and establishes what big data really is, ...