Numbers and data are no longer a daunting task — they’ve now become an integral part of a company’s operations. The issue is most companies are only given the basic facts of their data without the what’s, how’s, and why’s that are driving the data analytics. Jaywing, a British data-based digital agency, found that brands across the board are failing …
How to Approach the Challenge of Security and Big Data Proactively
Big data brings with it big risk. How secure are your security strategies? And what can you doto avoid a security breach?
Five Words of Warning for Corporate America: How Big Data Lost Us the Vietnam War
Big data is all the rage these days, but it comes with some very serious drawbacks if overly relied on. In fact, American lost the Vietnam War because of it.
Capitalizing on Real-Time Data Streaming
In the business world, there’s nothing more frustrating than putting all your efforts—and resources—into implementing a data-backed decision, only to find that in the time it took to analyze the data, a new trend had already emerged. In the fast-paced world of digital transformation, that’s an increasingly common phenomenon—which is why real-time data streaming is such an important development. How …
How Real Time Stream Processing Changes Everything About Big Data
Technology is constantly evolving. Big Data, for example, went from buzzword to business staple a long time ago, exploding and offering actionable insights on how businesses approach everything from HR to marketing analytics. Today, instead of just using data in retrospective reports or to project future trends, companies are using it to harness that insight in the now. It’s called …
The State of Manufacturing
From the early days of steam power, through the growth of automated production lines powered by electricity, and right up to the use of computer technology and robotics, manufacturing has been at the vanguard of innovation and technological development. It’s not just an historical phenomenon though. It’s an evolution that continues—with innovative manufacturers now building on cloud technologies to connect …
Making Data-Backed Decisions
It used to be that the best people in business seemed to have a gut instinct about the perfect deal. It was like magic, leaving all of us to wonder how we could sprinkle the same fairy dust on our own projects to be similarly successful. Fast forward a couple decades, and gut instincts are being replaced by hard data. …
Virtualization Security: The Line of Defense Your Cloud Needs
It used to be that companies used Clouds merely to back up their physical systems. Now, as many businesses are increasingly adopting Clouds and virtual machines (VMs) as an alternative to their physical infrastructure, the question remains: How to keep their virtual data, software, and systems secure? Just as technology is changing how and where we work, it is also …
Data as a Service: The Big Opportunity for Business
Big data is imperative to business—and the amount of data in circulation and storage needed increases daily. Most forward-thinking businesses recognize the value of this data and leverage it as a decision-making factor for business strategy, but they don’t use it to its full potential. Unfortunately, most big data exists in silos that bog down its effectiveness. Break Down Data …
Overcoming Hurdles of Data Usage
Big Data is many things, but easy is not one of them. While companies the world over have raced to jump aboard the Big Data train, few have seen tangible results from their efforts. A recent Experian report showed that although 95 percent of CIOs believe data is changing how their organizations are doing business, nearly two-thirds of those also …