Simplify360 unveils its much awaited Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE). ACOE showcases the strength of Simplify360 platform about the next-gen big data analytics developed by the company. Simplify360, the leading Social Media ...
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Business analytics provider SAS has launched the SAS Student Academy to help staff a big data analytics revolution, through a joint initiative with Birmingham City University (BCU). At the launch at BCU yesterday, the university's vice ...
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Hewlett-Packard has agreed to transfer 3,000 of its employees to General Motors, as the automaker moves IT operations in-house, the two companies announced. The HP workers are part of a team running GM's IT operations under outsourcing ...
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Gaining a better understanding of customers is the main motivation for big data programmes. This is one finding from a SearchDataManagementUK survey of 184 UK and continental European IT and business professionals who are primarily ...
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The economic picture that Gartner's head of research, Peter Sondergaard, painted at his firm's recent Symposium/ITxpo conference in Orlando was upbeat in a surprising way. While Gartner isn't significantly raising its global IT growth ...
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Record group EMI is honing its marketing efforts by joining its data sources through Microsoft SQL Server 2012. It has reportedly gained insights into how individual artists’ albums, tracks, ringtones and merchandise sell in different ...
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The government could save up to £33bn a year by applying big data analytics to departmental information, claims a new report from think tank the Policy Exchange. The Policy Exchange estimated up to £22bn could be found by ...
Data specialists can earn 20% more than other IT professionals and there has been an increase in data roles of 43% in the past year. Research from e-skills UK, sponsored by SAS, suggests demand for big data analysts will double over the ...
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Hadoop and MapReduce have long been mainstays of the big data movement, but some companies now need new and faster ways to extract business value from massive -- and constantly growing -- datasets. While many large organizations are still ...
For all the promise that big data holds, the fundamental challenge with collecting massive volumes of data from different sources is finding new business uses for it, according to several IT managers at Computerworld's BI & Analytics ...
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IDG News Service - On the heels of controversial changes to its developer platform, Twitter is debuting a certification program for third-party business applications that the company deems particularly useful. Through its new Certified ...
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EMC is showing heavy interest in boosting its share of the data center market by moving from storage and related services to servers. Over the past two years, EMC has announced a number of partnerships and products that slipped its toe ...
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Apple has received rare praise from a leading rights advocacy group for incorporating important new privacy enhancing features in its recently released iOS 6 operating system. In a blog post on Monday, the Center for Democracy and ...
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IBM's latest mainframe, the zEnterprise EC12, was built with data analytics and hybrid clouds in mind. And that's good, analysts say, because the company must focus on new applications like those to ensure that its workhorse data center ...
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VMware and EMC today confirmed rumors that have been circulating for weeks that it would spin out its big data and platform as a service (PaaS) cloud products into a new division within the company named Pivotal Initiative, which will be ...
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